During her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, now-Justice Elena Kagan was asked Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) if a broccoli mandate would be constitutional.
The following year, a tax case reached the Supreme Court, which ruled that an income tax on wages, professions and trades would be constitutional.
The court said political map-makers cannot use race as the principal consideration in drawing congressional district boundary lines, but also agreed that using race as one factor could be constitutional.
Stephen Presser, Raoul Berger (ph) Professor of Legal History at Northwestern University School of Law, wrote a letter to Congressman Delahunt disagreeing about censure, and saying that censure would not be constitutional.
At least those polled clearly understand that establishing an official religion for their state would require a constitutional amendment as only 11 percent believe the Constitution currently allows a state to establish an official religion while 58 percent do not believe it to be constitutional.
In the absence of a future court overturning Citizens United, the fundamental response should be a constitutional amendment.
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Another example, broached with unaccustomed courage by Mr Jospin last year, may be the constitutional future of Corsica.
The end-point of a particular society will depend upon its history and may be a constitutional monarchy like Jordan and Britain, or a full democracy.
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But the final appeals court supported an argument put forward by Mr Berlusconi's lawyers that there may be a constitutional flaw in the reformed penal code.
Yet if the court, which has the legal upper hand, stands firm and Congress reverses itself in favor of Mr. Zelaya, there will be a constitutional crisis.
So long as their actions are reasonable, and the scope of the intrusion and the duration of the deprivation is not egregious, the search will be deemed constitutional.
Therefore, in the rare and narrow circumstances presented in the healthcare industry an individual mandate should be deemed constitutional as a way to control price, and increase access to healthcare.
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Given the uncertain benefit of restricting magazine size, not to mention the tens of millions of "high capacity" magazines in circulation, something near that number may be a constitutional minimum.
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You will have to remind them from time to time that if they want to be the constitutional equal, they need to bring the other 434 members over to your office.
The Governing Council has accomplished certain things, it needs to accomplish a lot more, and it needs to be doing executive functions, it needs to be organizing the constitutional progress, it needs to be organizing the electoral process.
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Otherwise the bill, even if passed by parliament, could be challenged in the constitutional court by anyone claiming to be injured.
The truth is that there are probably very few votes to be won in constitutional tinkering.
Should that process fail, new elections would be called under constitutional law.
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Mr Abhisit told the red-shirt leaders that an election should be held after constitutional amendments were completed and a budget was passed in the autumn.
Hunters still believe their sport might be saved by constitutional wrangles.
Some of Mr Clinton's allies thought this subpoena could be challenged on constitutional grounds, arguing that the judicial branch (unlike Congress) lacks the authority to compel evidence from the executive.
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Because these bills have come into force at different times, and because the British people tend to be bored by constitutional matters, some have attracted less attention than they deserve.
It would be ours by constitutional right.
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While there continue to be some key constitutional issues and real problems of poverty and climate change, the mood was one of urging the developed world to stick to the development commitment and funds set aside for the region, now more than ever.
The outcome may be disputed, but the constitutional reasoning-- at least in their own minds-- must be sound.
By the same token, a constitutional reform may be aimed at fixing imperfections in the system of representation or other imperfections that demand amendments from the original constitutional document.
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.
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But the legality of such a change will eventually be decided by the Constitutional Court.
The new treaty will be the fourth big constitutional change since the Treaty of Rome.
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