Legal though they are, Super PACs are nonetheless a perversion of our democratic and constitutional system.
The protection of property rights lies at the heart of our constitutional system.
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The constitutional system of checks and balances limits the House's ability to force the Senate majority leader to act.
"But that is more than the act delivers and more than it can delivers under our constitutional system, " he said.
History and the precedents alike, show that impeachment is not a punishment for crimes, but a means to protect our constitutional system.
"Let them see the whole thing and let them pass judgment, because if they disagree with you, it's the equilibrium of our constitutional system that's involved, " he said.
The Justices can help the Constitutional system, the country's political temper and the Court's reputation by letting the people decide how to define the core family unit of society.
Those two groups currently hold the two most powerful offices of state under the current constitutional system which reflects a past era, when the Shia were not Lebanon's largest group.
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We have a constitutional system of government.
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But the common thread that runs through all of my decisions is simple: We will safeguard what we must to protect the American people, but we will also ensure the accountability and oversight that is the hallmark of our constitutional system.
He is not going to go off-message without a lot of discussion inside the campaign on how they wanted to handle it, " said Norm Ornstein, a veteran political analyst and author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.
"If Romney pushes hard the same meme the GOP leaders are pushing, he looks like a complete flip-flopper, " Norm Ornstein, a veteran political analyst and author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, " said before Romney revealed his position in interviews on Wednesday.
He argued that under a system based on constitutional separation of powers, the person who promulgates a law should not be allowed to interpret it as well.
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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.
Bakke, the seminal affirmative action ruling issued in 1978, five justices struck down a quota system on statutory and constitutional grounds.
For that, the government pins its hopes on a series of proposed laws, including a constitutional amendment to reform the pension system (which requires only three more votes in the congress).
But, because of the changes, Israel is feeling its way through new constitutional conventions in an untried, hybrid system.
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The constitutional changes required for a proper parliamentary system will need a two-thirds majority in the assembly and a referendum.
But Mr Duhalde has now announced sweeping constitutional changes, which include replacing the current presidential system with a parliamentary democracy.
He could say that while he disagreed with the court's decision, the justices had the responsibility under our system to decide whether the law was constitutional.
The other constitutional reform mooted is an overhaul of the pretty baffling voting system itself.
As a former head of the constitutional court and as the main architect of the new democratic system in Hungary after 1990, this bird knew the lie of the land like no other.
What clearly emerges from Mr Griffin's account is a view of the court not as the final arbiter on constitutional questions, but as only one element in a tripartite system of government designed to divide power and create friction between the three branches.
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So at a meeting with Mr Cardoso this week, congressional leaders promised greater urgency on constitutional amendments aimed at tackling Brazil's rigid and generous entitlement system, which is the root of its fiscal problems.
Then she said her hands were tied by a 1985 Supreme Court ruling extending constitutional rights to those claiming refugee status, which had led to the present system of lengthy appeals.
This system has been contested by the Spanish right, but Spain's constitutional court has upheld the policy.
The head of the country's Constitutional Court, Pavel Rychetsky, is also an outspoken critic of the change of system.
"I think this decision puts the judicial system in a crisis, and it's a message to the constitutional court, " he said.
German politicians are constrained by a complex federal system, a sceptical public, messy coalition politics and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court.
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