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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"constitutional amendments"”.
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Ballot Readability and Plain Language
… to Georgia's five legislatively-referred constitutional amendments (LRCA) in the November 2018 election. This study sought to answer the following questions regarding ballot readability and plain language:</p> <ol> <li>Do voters distinguish the difference between traditionally composed …
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Interventions by national government in provincial governments in South Africa: A critical analysis
This thesis critically examines the constitutional and procedural framework for national government intervention in provincial governance in South Africa, as provided under Section 100 of the 1996 Constitution. In doing so, it explores the grounds, procedures, and outcomes of these interventions. …
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Transforming Gender and Sexuality in-between the Personal and the Professional: The Promise of Legal Change in (Un)Becoming Advocate (Avukat) in Turkey
… oriented towards realizing extensive legal and constitutional amendments, as well as juridical reforms in restructuring the contemporary body of law and judicial institutions based on the promise of strengthening access to justice mechanisms and improving human rights laws and practices in …
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The Hermeneutical Reality of Constitutional Law: Understanding the Legality of Constitutional Adjudication
Under Turkey’s 1961 Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Turkey (CCRT) controversially invalidated several constitutional amendments. The prevailing explanatory paradigm about the CCRT, which I term the standard picture, suggests that these invalidations defy legal explanations. The standard …
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Absentee Soldier Voting In Civil War Law And Politics
… voters participated in them. The changes were constitutionally problematic, generating court challenges in some states and constitutional amendments in others. Ohio's experience offers a case study demonstrating the radicalism of the legal change and the constitutional tension it created.</p> …
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Towards an Inclusive Multinational Society in Myanmar : Ethnic Perceptions and State Building
… because its proposed policy sequence prioritises constitutional amendments that do not appear politically feasible in present day Myanmar. I therefore recommend the prioritisation of policies that support a sense of belonging such as symbolic recognition, access to opportunities or cultural …
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Federalism and Conflict Management in Ethiopia. Case Study of Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State.
… factors hinder the federal process. First, the constitutional focus on ethnic groups¿ rights has led, in practice, to lessened attention to citizenship and minority rights protection in the regional states. Second, the federal process encourages ethnic-based elite groups to compete in …
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Constitutional Rights in a Common Law World: The Reconstruction of North Carolina Legal Culture, 1865-1874
The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, which were ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, abolished slavery, established national citizenship and made equality before the law a constitutional requirement. These national constitutional amendments brought …
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Tévhitek az autonómiáról: Székelyföld autonómiájának alkotmányossága = Misbeliefs about Autonomy: The Constitutionality of the Autonomy of Szeklerland
… autonomy of Szeklerland does not contradict the constitutional order of Romania. I analysed this hypothesis through legal doctrinal analysis, and comparative legal analysis based on the relevant legal material: The Constitution and laws of Romania; The two Opinions of the Legislative Council of …
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Authorizing revolutionary constitutional change : constituent power, legitimacy, and the revolutionary constitutional amendment
… efforts to reconcile growing disharmonies in a constitutional system are no longer sufficient, requiring a new approach that will transform the identity of the constitutional order. The periodic need for transformative change has led scholars to analyze constitutional revolutions and their role …
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Domestic politics or EU influence: what is driving Turkey's constitutional reforms?
… changes made to the constitution. Most of this constitutional reform has happened since the European Union (EU) announced that Turkey had achieved candidate status for eventual membership in the Union in 1999. Many scholars attribute Turkey’s democratization, of which constitutional reform is an …
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A Study of Compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in Selected Iowa Public School Districts
… for implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became effective in July, 1975. Three years have elapsed since the regulations went into effect and no one had identified the degree of its implementation in Iowa schools. The purposes of this study were: (1) to assess the extent …
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The twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution of the United States
<p>This paper presents a study of the Twenty·-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The Amendment was first proposed to Congress as Senate and House Joint Resolutions in February 1965. It became law in February 1967, when Nevada secured the distinction of being the …
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Environmentalism and Environmental Constitutional Ballot Initiatives in Florida: The Elements of Support for Amendment One in 2014 in the Context of Current Environmental Attitudes.
… Support and opposition for a specific Florida constitutional ballot proposition on environmental land conservative acquisition reflect partisan and gender divides, and the impact of attitudes regarding an unpopular elected national official. Environmentalism appears to be further evidence of …