What is missing from both parties' policy platforms is any substantive commitment to deal with adapting to climate change.
Marshall and his fellow federalists/Federalists shared a substantive commitment to structure – namely, a judiciary-centric federalism.
Otherwise, it will start to appear to others that he was always more concerned with a branding exercise than a substantive commitment to justice.
We should use these programs as a way to educate candidates about our work before they receive laborer's endorsement, so that elected officials have a substantive commitment to supporting our efforts.
In the absence of a deep substantive commitment to the details of the bill, the fallback rationale for passing it ― not just from the White House, but from other GOP leaders as well ― is that Republicans have to act because they promised to do so.
"Experts criticise that Australia's attitude appeared to be to try to avoid making any substantive commitments, and to do the absolute minimum that it has to.
In addition to these substantive commitments, you need to be very careful how you talk about Social Security.
Soft law— often, although not exclusively, agreements between regulators in two or more countries does not create formal legal obligations, but nonetheless contains substantive commitments that the parties are expected to take seriously.
Somewhat paradoxically, the privileging of individual rights means that the substantive commitments of no individual can be allowed to inform the body of law, which must be generally applicable; applicable, that is, to every citizen no matter what his or her beliefs and biases may happen to be.
By applying this new synthesis to trade agreements, this Article shows how procedural obligations can be designed to stack the deck in favor of certain private interests and why treaty negotiators may find it easier to agree on procedures than substantive commitments.
