2.3. Institutions dealing with the state of emergency in Namibia.
... nineteenth century and became a German protectorate in 1884. The General Act of Berlin of 1885 ratified this possession. The General Act has divided most of the African countries among the European colonial powers.3 German laws and administration were applied in the central and southern parts of the ...
... nineteenth century and became a German protectorate in 1884. The General Act of Berlin of 1885 ratified this possession. The General Act has divided most of the African countries among the European colonial powers.3 German laws and administration were applied in the central and southern parts of the ...
The Living Constitution of Ancient Athens
... valuable evidence, which will be analyzed in this Article, about how the Athenians approached the same fundamental question that faces the members of the Supreme Court: Should the constitution be read narrowly in accordance with its original meaning or should the courts interpret the constitution in ...
... valuable evidence, which will be analyzed in this Article, about how the Athenians approached the same fundamental question that faces the members of the Supreme Court: Should the constitution be read narrowly in accordance with its original meaning or should the courts interpret the constitution in ...
a critical analysis of presidential powers under the 1999
... The significance of this research is its contribution to knowledge and development of constitutional principles, which could lead to good governance so that those who find themselves in position of leadership, particularly the office of President, should realize that there is, after all, no absolut ...
... The significance of this research is its contribution to knowledge and development of constitutional principles, which could lead to good governance so that those who find themselves in position of leadership, particularly the office of President, should realize that there is, after all, no absolut ...
Chapter 5, Section 1: Federalism and Preemption
... the Articles of Confederation. The articles granted limited authority to a federal government, including the power to wage wars, conduct foreign policy, and resolve issues regarding claims by the states on western lands. Many leading scholars and statesmen at the time, known as Federalists, thought ...
... the Articles of Confederation. The articles granted limited authority to a federal government, including the power to wage wars, conduct foreign policy, and resolve issues regarding claims by the states on western lands. Many leading scholars and statesmen at the time, known as Federalists, thought ...
district level hearing questions
... a. Why did the Anti-Federalists believe that representative government could work only in small communities of citizens with similar interest and beliefs? b. How did the Federalists respond to the Anti-Federalists fears about a large republic? c. Why did the Federalists believe that they could not r ...
... a. Why did the Anti-Federalists believe that representative government could work only in small communities of citizens with similar interest and beliefs? b. How did the Federalists respond to the Anti-Federalists fears about a large republic? c. Why did the Federalists believe that they could not r ...
Basic Constitutional Analysis - Santa Clara Law Digital Commons
... This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Santa Clara Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Santa Clara Law Review by an authorized administrator of Santa Clara Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ...
... This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Santa Clara Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Santa Clara Law Review by an authorized administrator of Santa Clara Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ...
the americanization of constitutional law and its
... The U.S. Supreme Court introduced the first three of these in its most famous case: Marbury v. Madison,' decided in 1803. Marbury laid the cornerstone for the recognition of the Constitution as a legal document and for the recognition of the Judiciary as the branch with the power, and authority to e ...
... The U.S. Supreme Court introduced the first three of these in its most famous case: Marbury v. Madison,' decided in 1803. Marbury laid the cornerstone for the recognition of the Constitution as a legal document and for the recognition of the Judiciary as the branch with the power, and authority to e ...
The Seven Pillars of Centralism: Federalism and the Engineers` Case
... Nor do crabbed English rules explain how literalism came to stand for a permanent proCommonwealth bias. For in interpreting Commonwealth powers, their words were not only to be given their literal meaning, but also the widest literal meaning that the words could possibly bear.40 Engineers signalled ...
... Nor do crabbed English rules explain how literalism came to stand for a permanent proCommonwealth bias. For in interpreting Commonwealth powers, their words were not only to be given their literal meaning, but also the widest literal meaning that the words could possibly bear.40 Engineers signalled ...
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... regulated by written word, shall not necessarily be regulated by requirements to abide by universal norms of morality. The question then is what are the motives of behaviour of government representative or official if legal norms do not regulate their behaviour in an imperative manner anymore? In ou ...
... regulated by written word, shall not necessarily be regulated by requirements to abide by universal norms of morality. The question then is what are the motives of behaviour of government representative or official if legal norms do not regulate their behaviour in an imperative manner anymore? In ou ...
Judicial Review and Its Politicization in Central America: Guatemala
... positive development in solidifying the rule of law in Latin America, yet some courts' actions caution against an uncritical acceptance of judicial review. At the most general level of political theory, judicial review is subject to the counter-majoritarian critique that a small number of unelected ...
... positive development in solidifying the rule of law in Latin America, yet some courts' actions caution against an uncritical acceptance of judicial review. At the most general level of political theory, judicial review is subject to the counter-majoritarian critique that a small number of unelected ...
constitutional-court-2004-3
... petitioned this court for a declaration to that effect. In our judgment these are the type of actions envisaged by article 137 (3)(b). He is not stating as a fact that he has a definite right that should be enforced. He is alleging that the conduct of the Law Council has violated his rights guarante ...
... petitioned this court for a declaration to that effect. In our judgment these are the type of actions envisaged by article 137 (3)(b). He is not stating as a fact that he has a definite right that should be enforced. He is alleging that the conduct of the Law Council has violated his rights guarante ...
Economic Liberty - Marquette Law Scholarly Commons
... The Bicentennial of the Constitution gives us a wonderful opportunity to examine our roots and to see whether the greatest experiment in all the world an experiment designed to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" 1 - is alive and well as we enter the twenty-first century ...
... The Bicentennial of the Constitution gives us a wonderful opportunity to examine our roots and to see whether the greatest experiment in all the world an experiment designed to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" 1 - is alive and well as we enter the twenty-first century ...
Felony and Mormon Disenfranchisement in the US West
... Mormon voting bloc in the West, it proved vulnerable to constitutional assault. The legislation’s opponents charged that it imposed an ex post facto punishment on those who had been practicing bigamists or polygamists before the bill’s passage, but who had, by 1882, abstained from living with more t ...
... Mormon voting bloc in the West, it proved vulnerable to constitutional assault. The legislation’s opponents charged that it imposed an ex post facto punishment on those who had been practicing bigamists or polygamists before the bill’s passage, but who had, by 1882, abstained from living with more t ...
Framework Laws and the Primacy of the Legislature
... the tremendous socio-economic problems of the time, there was a strong call to grant the executive farreaching powers. Framework laws or Skeleton bills, as Lord Heyward called them, enabled the executive to take all sorts of emergency measures without parliamentary approval.16 Even though the 1930s ...
... the tremendous socio-economic problems of the time, there was a strong call to grant the executive farreaching powers. Framework laws or Skeleton bills, as Lord Heyward called them, enabled the executive to take all sorts of emergency measures without parliamentary approval.16 Even though the 1930s ...
Interpreting the Illinois Constitution: Illinois Supreme Court Plays
... the majority of the Court has continued to follow this "fundamental rights" approach, most Bill of Rights guarantees have been incorporated in the fourteenth amendment's due process clause on a case-by-case basis.2" This action at the federal level indicates that states were not adequately securing ...
... the majority of the Court has continued to follow this "fundamental rights" approach, most Bill of Rights guarantees have been incorporated in the fourteenth amendment's due process clause on a case-by-case basis.2" This action at the federal level indicates that states were not adequately securing ...
The Success of Constitutionalism in the United States and Its Failure
... for over two hundred years with essentially only fourteen amendments8 is indicative of both its phenomenal success' and of the enormous difficulty involved in amending it. That North Americans have to resort to the French or Spanish languages to express the exotic phenomenon of coup d'etat or golpe ...
... for over two hundred years with essentially only fourteen amendments8 is indicative of both its phenomenal success' and of the enormous difficulty involved in amending it. That North Americans have to resort to the French or Spanish languages to express the exotic phenomenon of coup d'etat or golpe ...
Understanding the Illinois Constitution
... were an elected governor and lieutenant governor, but the governor appointed all other executive branch officials. The governor was elected for a four-year term but could not stand for reelection. The governor had no effective veto of legislative actions. The governor and the justices of the Supreme ...
... were an elected governor and lieutenant governor, but the governor appointed all other executive branch officials. The governor was elected for a four-year term but could not stand for reelection. The governor had no effective veto of legislative actions. The governor and the justices of the Supreme ...
doc - Supreme Law Firm
... [DEFENDANT] enjoys all his fundamental rights as guaranteed by the State and Federal Constitutions, including both "substantive" and "procedural" due process. In contrast, when regulatory offenses "of a criminal nature" are involved, the statutory defendant cannot demand constitutional rights, since ...
... [DEFENDANT] enjoys all his fundamental rights as guaranteed by the State and Federal Constitutions, including both "substantive" and "procedural" due process. In contrast, when regulatory offenses "of a criminal nature" are involved, the statutory defendant cannot demand constitutional rights, since ...
Saving Constitutional Rights from Judicial Scrutiny: The Savings
... common law rights and constitutional protections, the clauses have presented particularly vexing problems of construction as appellate tribunals have attempted to reconcile international human rights norms with municipal law.' In July 2004, the Judicial Department of the Privy Council ("Board"), the ...
... common law rights and constitutional protections, the clauses have presented particularly vexing problems of construction as appellate tribunals have attempted to reconcile international human rights norms with municipal law.' In July 2004, the Judicial Department of the Privy Council ("Board"), the ...
the constitutional court of the republic of lithuania
... Section II of the fact-establishing part of this ruling of the Constitutional Court) that, while substantiating its position, the petitioner quotes the Constitutional Court’s ruling of 21 December 2000, namely the official constitutional doctrine of freedom of associations formulated therein, whereb ...
... Section II of the fact-establishing part of this ruling of the Constitutional Court) that, while substantiating its position, the petitioner quotes the Constitutional Court’s ruling of 21 December 2000, namely the official constitutional doctrine of freedom of associations formulated therein, whereb ...
The Constitution of the United States: A
... reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill ...
... reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill ...
habeas corpus - Bill of Rights Institute
... was already in progress in Supreme Court. Chief Justice Founders’ vision 1797 as the French seized Roger Taney’s strongly worded over 300 American ships. opinion asserted that by Federalists were calling for suspending writs of habeas a formal declaration of war corpus, Lincoln was wrongly assuming ...
... was already in progress in Supreme Court. Chief Justice Founders’ vision 1797 as the French seized Roger Taney’s strongly worded over 300 American ships. opinion asserted that by Federalists were calling for suspending writs of habeas a formal declaration of war corpus, Lincoln was wrongly assuming ...
pdf Thomas Leviathan Hobbes and Parliamentary Sovereignty in
... practices. I conclude that this is due precisely to the influence of an entrenched constitution. To be sure, what initially attracted me to the study of New Zealand politics (other than the lifetime goal to one day experience the beauty of Aotearoa first hand) was the very fact that New Zealand had ...
... practices. I conclude that this is due precisely to the influence of an entrenched constitution. To be sure, what initially attracted me to the study of New Zealand politics (other than the lifetime goal to one day experience the beauty of Aotearoa first hand) was the very fact that New Zealand had ...
The Lessons of 1968 - Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly
... Harlan and Hugo L. Black left the Court at the end of their lives in 1971. But in addition, the extent of Nixon’s influence on the trajectory of constitutional law was enhanced by idiosyncratic events over which he had no control. Ironically, one of these events was triggered by the fear of an impen ...
... Harlan and Hugo L. Black left the Court at the end of their lives in 1971. But in addition, the extent of Nixon’s influence on the trajectory of constitutional law was enhanced by idiosyncratic events over which he had no control. Ironically, one of these events was triggered by the fear of an impen ...