The MDC's Tendai Biti, who currently serves as finance minister, told the BBC the document was the "midwife" to a brand new Zimbabwe as it sets out people's rights, devolves some power and sets up a system of check and balances for those in authority.
Insist that the autocratic character of the Yeltsin alternative constitution approved last April be modified to provide for a system of genuine check-and-balances between elected executive and legislative branches.
Gun-control advocates have helped highlight these flaws, but some also worry that focus on the system's holes will be used as an excuse to block legislation requiring universal use of the background check system.
WSJ: Systemic Gaps Hinder Background Checks for Gun Purchases
In Colorado, only a tiny fraction (about 1%) of people who have gun-disqualifying mental health histories have been reported to the National Instant Check System, where they could be discovered in a routine background check of a prospective gun purchaser.
Today in Colorado, President Obama asked the American people to continue calling on Congress to vote on a set of common-sense proposals to help reduce gun violence, including closing loopholes in the background check system to keep guns out of the hands criminals and others who should not have access to them.
Statistics from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) show about 1 percent of applicants who failed a background check over the past 14 years, or 10, 180 people, were turned down for reasons related to mental health.
And if you disapprove, then in 2010 you witnessed the power of America's system to check an overactive majority.
New York state took steps Tuesday to bolster its background-check system as part of firearm-restrictions legislation that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law.
WSJ: Systemic Gaps Hinder Background Checks for Gun Purchases
"I determined that it was in my company's best interest to terminate this transaction prior to his returning to my store to complete the Federal Form 4473 and NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) required of Mr. Kelly before he could take possession of this firearm, " MacKinlay posted on the Tuscon store's Facebook page Monday.
If you'd like a glimpse of how the system might work, check out the video after the break.
Mr Hutton proposes a system of non-executive governance to keep the self-regard of bureaucrats in check, and the appointment of a representative employee to new remuneration committees.
By contrast, in Washington, Congress has so far failed to take the sensible step of expanding the background check system to close loopholes that allow criminals and the mentally ill to buy guns.
Richer beneficiaries should pay more of their share of Medicare, while the generosity of the system should be kept in check by the independent panel set up under Mr Obama's health reform to monitor services and payments.
In 1993, Congress passed the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, which created a national background-check system and a list of people forbidden to own a gun: felons, the mentally ill, persons who committed a domestic-violence misdemeanor, drug addicts and the dishonorably discharged.
Mr. BAILEY: What we do here at the Jockey Club is we have an approval process whereby the owners of the Thoroughbreds will submit the names to us, and we enter those names into a computer system and run them through a check of the phonetics of the name.
"We are the victims of our own success: We have created a very efficient check-deposit system, " said Elliott McEntee, president and CEO of the National Automated Clearing House Association in Herndon, Va.
We're pretty stoked to get a chance to check this system out for ourselves but until that time, check out the quick video of it in action below.
Mr. Baker said that at Thursday's meeting, he suggested the administration work on ways to push states to submit mental-health records into the background-check system, an emerging area of consensus in response to Newtown.
The upshot is that the programme of culling that the government embarked on was probably more aggressive than it needed to be, and that a system of quick detection and isolation of unwell animals might have been sufficient to keep the disease in check.
We will make it easier to keep guns out of the hands of criminals by strengthening the background check system.
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In the meantime, if you are still on the fence about Kinect, check out my review of the new system.
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Owners of iMac system who think that they are affected can enter their serial number into a form on the Apple website to check to see if their system is part of the replacement program.
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Jared Loughner was not in the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) that records the names of people of deemed ineligible to purchase a weapon.
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Jenks had the mic first and made the case against a pathway to citizenship and for a comprehensive e-Verify system (which would require employers to check the immigration status of their employees).
On another issue, Republicans on the panel have expressed support for expanding the scope of mental health information submitted to the federal background check system used by gun sellers.
Thune said lawmakers should aim instead at preventing future mass killings by improving mental health programs and increasing the records that state governments send the federal background check system so the checks can do a better job of keeping guns from people who shouldn't have them.
There is little sign lawmakers and advocacy groups on either side of the debate are willing to alter their stances, though room for agreement may exist in some areas, such as requiring states to increase their submission of mental-health records to the background-check system used to screen people buying guns from federally licensed dealers.
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For remote deposit of checks, Wells Fargo again built its own system rather than buying a check reader and software from a vendor.
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It would also require states and the federal government to provide records on criminals and the "violently mentally ill" to the national background check system, addressing a criticism by the NRA and other opponents of gun laws that the existing system lacks substantive information.
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