Eligibility criteria and other regulations limiting the pool of possible presidential candidates in Singapore - consequences of a single candidate election process - People's Action Party's ...constitutional reforms in 1991 - move towards authoritarian rule - dissuading electors from oppositional politics - Constitutional Commission's 2016 review of the elected presidency - failure to boost presidential authority.
The results of the fou rth amendment Constitution of NRI 1945 leaving academic debate, not only in terms of the substance of the constitution that still has weaknesses and needs to be improved and ...perfected through the fifth amendment of the Constitution of N R I 1945, but also in terms of process changes that lead to refractive mainly against the spirit of Constitutional Commission , Refraction spirit of the Constitutional Commission took place on two points: first, the establishment of the Constitutional Commission which was form ed to have lost momentum, as well as the tasks assigned by the Assembly to the Constitutional Commission so minimalist that is limited to conduct a comprehensive review and was impressed merely fix systematize and writing of the Constitution of NRI 1945 w hich have been produced by the Assembly.
The article studies the origins of the party-list electoral system in the 1987 Philippine Constitution through a review of the proceedings of the 1986 Constitutional Commission and interviews with ...the 1986 constitutional commissioners. It seeks to help clarify the current debate on the purpose and meaning of the party-list electoral system that elects 20% of members of the House of Representatives by reviewing the transcripts of the 1986 Constitutional Commission and by interviewing the principal authors of the party-list provisions in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. Through the presentation of the original positions of the constitutional commissioners, the study seeks to better recount, recover, and review the founding vision of the framers of the 1987 Constitution that is buried in the accretion of the enabling law for the party list, Supreme Court decisions, Commission on Elections (Comelec) resolutions, petitions of political party and sectoral groups, and commentaries that have competed to interpret the constitutional provisions on the party list in the past 28 years of existence of the 1987 Constitution.
The jurisdictional review, a control carried out by an organ independent in relation to the legislative, seems definitively won for the constitutionalist world. In the absence of ...expressesdispositions that regulate the control of constitutionality, the judiciary decided that this right belong to him in a very naturally way, as an issue of the separation of power and of the function that he fills. Because he was controlling the acts of the Parliament, the judge won a strong position in relation to the legislative power. This situation could not be accepted by a powerful legislative. While presenting itself as mandatory of the sovereignty of the people, it claims for him the right to control his own acts. However, in the case of Romania such a manifestation demonstration intervened only in Communist period. After we have presented in a first part the conditions in which the constitutional review ispassed to the political, the second part of the article will present how this control is exert by an organ dependent to the Parliament.
The jurisdictional review, a control carried out by an organ independent in relation to the
legislative, seems definitively won for the constitutionalist world. In the absence of expresses
...dispositions that regulate the control of constitutionality, the judiciary decided that this right belong to
him in a very naturally way, as an issue of the separation of power and of the function that he fills.
Because he was controlling the acts of the Parliament, the judge won a strong position in relation to the
legislative power. This situation could not be accepted by a powerful legislative. While presenting itself
as mandatory of the sovereignty of the people, it claims for him the right to control his own acts.
However, in the case of Romania such a manifestation demonstration intervened only in Communist
period. After a presentation of the conditions in which the constitutional review is passed to the
political, the second part of the article will present how this control is exert by an organ dependent to
the Parliament.
The Moulding of Ukraine offers a systematic examination of competing ideological visions of statehood and discusses them against the backdrop of historical traditions in Ukraine. This well-documented ...and lucidly written book is the only coherent account available in English of the process of constitutional reform, offering an insight into post-Soviet Ukrainian politics. A useful addition to university course reading lists in Ukrainian studies, post-Soviet studies, post-communist democratization, comparative constitutionalism, state-building and institutional design.
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no ...affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract, London: Penguin Group, 1968, p. 74)
The role and recommendations of the Australian Constitutional Commission and advisory committees appointed in 1985 to carry out a review of the Constitution - relevance to the current work of the ...Expert Panel - bipartisan support for change required - possible ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples might be accorded constitutional recognition - federal legislative power with respect to Indigenous Australians.
Recent period of unprecedented constitutional activity in Victorian Parliament - attempts at reform during the first term of Bracks' Labor Government 1999-2002 - establishment of Constitutional ...Commission in 2001 - issues - good governance - democracy in Victoria - current parliamentary structure - reform of Legislative Council - major recommendations of Commission - background to passage and key provisions of Constitution (Parliamentary Reform) Act - paper from the 2004 Annual Conference of the Australasian Study of Parliament Group.
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