Does the Constitution need reform? (cover story)Essay: Tampering with the separation of powers is a bad idea. America, a country of swiftly changing fashions, has stuck with its 1787 Constitution. Is it time for a radical overhauling?
as does the status of human rights values more generally: no consensus yet exists as to how human rights should best be protected within the framework of the British constitution. And while the scope of legal rights protection in the UK is relatively ...
Conservative activist Jerome Corsi and Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyers Guild have said that this is a violation of the Constitution of the United States in that the three branches of government are separate and equal, with no single branch coordinating the others. The directive, created by ...
Constitution. As the Senate will have relatively limited powers, it need not be as large as the existing Lords or Commons. To ensure the countries other than England have a meaningful voice, given that nearly 85% of the UK’s population is in England, two-thirds of the seats would be ...
“we need to grow our economy; we need to expand our exports and that’s why we’re also entering into free trade agreements.” [DTI1] Trade and agricultural policy actors reflected that neoliberal policy reform has increased the influence of global markets on the agro-processing system (incl...
(Colino, 2012;Zabalo and Saratxo, 2015). However, the Spanish constitution forbids secession. Theresa May recently announced that it was not “the right time” for a second Scottish Independence referendum despite Nicola Sturgeon seeking a place between the United Kingdom and the EU (Financial ...
State ConstitutionWelfare ReformRaceWomenChildrenPovertyDisabilityLocal GovernmentA key feature of welfare reform in 1996 was the replacement of a national entitlement to a minimum economic provision for each poor family by a system under which states enjoy considerable flexibility in deciding whether and ...
Public Administration and Constitution Committee’s 2016report on EVELwas highly critical. Academic research intoEVEL’s first year of operationfound that the process is too complex; that English and Welsh MPs have the power to veto laws passed by ...
The actual enactment of policy occurs at the provincial level: provinces are responsible for planning and funding most public healthcare services (hospital and physician care) dating back to the 1867 constitution granting them exclusive powers of "establishment, maintenance and management of hospitals."...
When surrounded by the dark void of the willfully blind, it does not excuse those that are a spark of light their duty to shine