This government control of our economic activities forced our action and catalyzed our nation, and our unique Constitution protecting basic economic liberty.
The business of assembling congressional majorities in order to loosen the economic straitjacket of the constitution is painfully slow.
You don't need to trample the Constitution to experience economic progress.
The president's draft offers little change to the constitution's economic chapters, though businesses may worry about proposed changes that would ban the use of international courts in the arbitration of many commercial disputes.
There is much that Japan can be proud of since 1945 -- rapid recovery from war devastation, adopting a pacifist Constitution, the economic miracle, achieving the best living standards in the region, creating a robust democracy in a relatively egalitarian society, and promoting regional economic development through massive aid and technical cooperation.
Though the draft report highlighted South Africa's post-apartheid achievements, including its liberal constitution, sound economic policy, generally sensible new laws and free politics, it did not shy away from spelling out problems it has yet to solve: still brittle race relations, rising xenophobia (against immigrants from Zimbabwe, for instance) and the lingering reluctance of some whites to embrace the new South Africa.
She announced that her party would draft its own constitution, formulate an economic policy, and meet regularly.
May the federal government, under the Constitution's Commerce Clause, regulate economic "inactivity"?
On the right, by contrast, the armed forces were seen as having saved Chile from economic disaster and a government that had violated the constitution in an effort to impose communism.
Most of all, it feared that economic reform was being held hostage in the clash over the Constitution.
Ecuador's constitution is consistent with Correa's ideology that economic and social justice is more important than the law itself.
The 1988 constitution, a hotch-potch of social and economic rights, encourages appeals in even trivial disputes to the Supreme Court.
Some Brotherhood political leaders speculated this week that the SCAF was trying to delay the transition to civilian rule and engineer a constitution that protects the military's political and economic privileges.
Middle-aged voters, many of whom voted for British membership of the European Community in 1975, in the hope of heading off economic failure and isolation, are the least hostile to the constitution.
Lost on the president, and for that matter Republicans too, is the simple truth that nowhere in the Constitution does it say that politicians must deliver to us economic growth.
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But economic reform may need to be preceded by political reform: the constitution bans presidents and congressmen alike from running for a second term, giving little accountability and every reason to take money and run.
The rationale of those who think the Constitution should be ignored: Helping politically favored developers means more economic growth, more tax revenue.
Yet uncertainty over Mr Chavez's intentions, and over the new constitution, has meant that higher oil revenues have not yet brought economic growth.
He also decided to suspend the Constitution, declaring that he needed a freer hand to introduce more economic reforms, combat terrorism and drug trafficking and root out corruption.
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The Constitution enshrines within the supreme law of the land key liberties: civil, economic, and social.
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If we follow our previous definition, a constitution should not be a document aimed at generating substantive policies such as establishing economic, social or foreign policies.
The European Constitution is largely the product of a long-running Franco-German campaign to construct an economic, political and strategic rival to the United States.
It has tried to slip additional pre-emptive clauses into the constitution that would give the armed forces an entirely unwarranted position of political power, protecting their economic privileges and keeping the defence budget secret.
The first ever democratic presidential election in Egypt, elections in Libya, Tunisia and Jordan and a new constitution in Morocco were evidence that "much has already been achieved" although lasting political and economic transformation would be a "long-term process".
In other words, it sounds like in exchange for economic support and other types of agreements beneficial to Honduras, President Zelaya seems to have compromised his country's constitution and its democracy.
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