Some commentators had suggested that section 1 of the Australia Act could pose constitutional problems in the United Kingdom, because of A. V. Dicey's proposition that the Parliament cannot restrict its future actions.
This hardly suggests that Mr Chávez is likely soon to be restored to full health; rather, he may well be dying.Mr Chávez's incapacity poses a constitutional problem for Venezuela, and a political problem for the whole of Latin America.
In Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith, Scalia wrote a majority opinion holding that a law did not pose a constitutional problem simply because it might jeopardize a religious practice.
The Clinton administration appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the restriction posed no constitutional problem because Congress "has simply chosen to pay for certain services but not others".
The first mechanism, could on its face, pose a constitutional problem because it engages in the imposition of a penalty without the application of a prior judicial function.
Mr. Goss said the provision was "narrowly crafted to protect the rights that all Americans hold dear" and that the Justice Department had confirmed that it posed no constitutional problem.
There were 18 cases this term decided by five-member majorities (17 were 5-to-4 decisions and one, the Pledge of Allegiance case, was 5 to 3 but would surely have been 5 to 4 had Justice Scalia participated; he would certainly have agreed with Chief Justice Rehnquist, in the minority, that the court should rule that "under God" posed no constitutional problem).
There is already a sea of speculation about the chief's relative quiet in last week's oral argument in King and Justice Anthony Kennedy's concern that the challengers' reading of the ACA poses a "serious constitutional problem" involving the "dynamics of federalism".
Other panels, with leading German scholars, focus on Germany's transition from the Nazi period to democracy and on the constitutional problems posed by that country's reunification after the collapse of Communism.
But the planning was mainly to make sure the plot significantly moved forward in every scene, and did so through knotty problems that posed deep familial and constitutional problems.
