Word: constitutionalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The idea of a truth-finding panel is an excellent one, but it would help our understanding to study whether the torture and other alleged illegal activities actually prevented terrorist attacks. I think Dick Cheney and George W. Bush were violating the law and the Constitution but sincerely believed this...
My answer, of course, was less important than what Burmese living under one of the world's most Orwellian regimes thought. And what they said surprised me. Yes, some deemed the elections "useless." Others conceded that the obstacles to even a semblance of electoral freedom are formidable. Before a single...
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's repeated calls to amend the constitution to strengthen the powers of the central government in Baghdad at the expense of Iraq's 18 provinces - including the semiautonomous three-province Kurdish region in the north - have faced fierce pushback from his Kurdish allies, some of...
Still, after 233 years of constitutional development, a supermajority is only required in five cases: to override a presidential veto, to amend the constitution, to pass treaties with foreign nations, to convict impeached public officials, and to expel members of the House or Senate. Nowhere does the Constitution say you...
And as Chin considers whether he can craft a compromise with his fellow justices that would both uphold Prop 8 - and therefore the right of the people to amend the state constitution - and assert the right of gay people to be treated equally, he may find that the folks who...