Zelaya says the constitution protects a system of government that excludes the poor, but has not specified what changes he will seek.
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For that reason, the new constitution tweaks the voting system in favour of smaller parties.
Point out that the U.S. Constitution does specify a system for the election of the president, known as the Electoral College.
Ukraine's constitution provides for a presidential political system, but successive legislation has transferred many powers to the prime minister and parliament.
However, the Constitution represented an improvement on that system.
Pretty quaint, that monetary system outlined by the Constitution.
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These cases involve a complex web of federal laws and legal principles, including the patent system established under the Constitution, antitrust law, and the Hatch-Waxman Act, a 1984 law that was intended to give generic manufacturers an incentive to challenge patents.
Republicans claim to love capitalism and the Constitution, but when the capitalist system sought to cleanse itself of failed concepts on the way to a healthy economic recovery, the GOP ignored strict constitutional limits meant to restrain federal power on the way to propping up businesses that the markets had left for dead.
While the patent system is enshrined in the Constitution, Congress has the job of specifying the rules.
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This ancient legal right is deemed by scholars to be the single most important right inherited from the ancient Anglo-Saxon legal system and incorporated into the Constitution.
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In Thailand, for example, it has brought down one government, and eased the passage of a new constitution aimed at cleaning up a political system long operated on commercial lines.
"If the union's basic administrative system does not violate the Constitution, then how could its special assessment have done so, " asked Breyer, who delivered his dissent from the bench, a rarely exercised privilege.
With a new constitution and a shift to a parliamentary system in the summer of 2010, observers, especially Americans, hoped Kyrgyzstan might become a model democracy in a region largely run by unsavoury strongmen.
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Messrs Zeman and Klaus, whose parties together won 60% of the vote and 137 of parliament's 200 seats, want to amend the constitution so as to change the voting system from proportional representation to first-past-the-post.
Tunisia's revolution ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and brought about a new government and political system, including a new draft constitution.
The constitution, the police, the army and the judicial system have all been reformed.
If the big states so evidently misuse their clout under the current system, why should the Dutch vote for a constitution that will give them more?
Both cases, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other federal prosecutions currently lodged in the bloated federal criminal justice system, raise the question of whether the federal Constitution, which supposedly guarantees defendants a fair trial, prohibits the feds from bringing unnecessarily complex charges and then financially disabling defendants from engaging in a fair fight.
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But the agreement still leaves the controversial binominal electoral system intact (although it will not be in the constitution, making it slightly easier to abolish).
Three days after Musharraf suspended the constitution and declared a state of emergency, Pakistan's judicial system is in lockdown, with thousands of lawyers jailed and many judges detained in their homes.
"(He is angry) especially when you are somebody who has defended the Constitution and served and protected the public, now being faced with the same system coming up and biting (you) in the butt, " Peilet said.
Scoop Jackson would have been affronted by the dire implications of such behavior for the system of checks-and-balances that are enshrined in the Constitution and that are supposed to limit the scope and potential for abuse of the government it charters.
What makes Mr Thaksin's case so awkward, however, is that the drafters of the 1997 constitution also set out to fix the other chronic flaw in Thailand's political system: divided and ineffective governments with hopelessly short lives.
Our Founding Fathers recognized the enormous benefits of such a system, which is why they placed the patent and copyright clause in the Constitution.
After outlining the principles contained in the South African constitution guaranteeing freedom of expression and the restrictive definition of its limits, Thloloe described the system of self-regulation of the press in force in his country.
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