Why do you suppose the drafters of the Constitution found Congress, not the chief executive, most important?
The drafters of the constitution were steeped in the liberal writings of Enlightenment philosophers and legal scholars.
That, more or less, seems to have been the approach adopted by the drafters of the constitution.
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But the charter-drafters wanted to make it harder for any other dominant majority party to emerge in future.
It was this insight that drove drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War.
The drafters of the Geneva Conventions understood that the laws of war are quickly abandoned by a desperate army.
The drafters of reform knew that Governors of either party might try to take the path of political least resistance.
On Tuesday, Republican Party platform drafters agreed to add a plank calling for a guest worker program for temporary migrants.
The drafters have ten months to venture where they will, under the chairmanship of a former president of Germany, Roman Herzog.
But if the drafters are serious about wanting to allow drone usage while still protecting privacy, this bill will require substantial rewriting.
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The drafters of the ABM treaty said not to worry, we always could withdraw from it by giving Moscow six months notice.
It's apparently one of the few contingencies that the drafters never considered.
Afghanistan is too weak, the drafters think, to tolerate federalism just yet.
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The drafters seemed to have forgotten that securities include debt as well as equity, and that debt is often issued outside the issuer's home country.
In any case, intent obviously varied among the different drafters.
For all the lofty words about accountability, did the drafters of our public-disclosure laws really intend them to be used by activist groups to get people fired for holding unfashionable views?
It is now recognised that you cannot enjoy one set of rights without the other and it was this vision that inspired the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, which Wall Street and brokers abhor, the wise drafters of the law asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to study a uniform fiduciary code for brokers.
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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.
But the drafters of the first Imperial House Law decided not to allow women to ascend the throne in order to preserve the single line that, according to legend, is descended from the sun goddess, Amaterasu Omikami.
Because the concept of employers offering health insurance is such a long standing institution in our country, the Affordable Care Act would have never passed into law had the drafters of the law ripped insurance from the employer market.
The drafters did not intend to allow Congress to choose among a range of punishments analogous to those available to the judiciary, and for this reason they specified that the impeached party was to remain subject to judicial process and specifically limited to two--removal and disqualification--the sanctions that Congress could apply.
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