The KIO's precondition for negotiations is that they discuss a new, federal constitution.
This, say the Liberals, in effect amends the federal constitution, and so, under British Columbia's law, requires a referendum there.
As in California last year, federal judges ruled in the 1970s that Louisiana's prisons were so overcrowded that they violated the federal constitution.
Whatever the autonomy commissions recommend, Indian officials are insisting that the proposals, if adopted, will be in keeping with the terms of the federal constitution.
Any law that curbs freedom of religion is a violation of the Malaysian federal Constitution, which provides that every person has the right to profess and practice his or her religion.
Both cases, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other federal prosecutions currently lodged in the bloated federal criminal justice system, raise the question of whether the federal Constitution, which supposedly guarantees defendants a fair trial, prohibits the feds from bringing unnecessarily complex charges and then financially disabling defendants from engaging in a fair fight.
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First, under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, federal law trumped state law.
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Under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes trump conflicting state laws.
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Under the United States Constitution, federal law is the supreme law of the land.
ObamaCare supporters were shocked, shocked that anyone still believed that the Constitution limited federal authority.
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There is nothing in the Constitution, federal, state or local statutes that expressly prohibits it.
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Under the U.S. Constitution, Federal law, including Federal tax law, is the supreme law of the land.
Following the original provisions of the Constitution, federal taxes consisted of property levies, excise taxes and tariffs.
In Brazil, however, a loose federal structure and a constitution packed with fine regulatory detail obstruct reforms.
Though the Founders surely authorized the federal government through the Constitution, they then quickly made plain that its powers would be few and defined.
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The Constitution gives federal courts jurisdiction over maritime law, he notes, which explains why the Supreme Court takes a maritime case in just about every session.
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Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond, said a ban on public display of a legal product could face a challenge under the Constitution or federal statutes that already regulate tobacco.
Since the usury cap was an amendment to the state's constitution, only a statewide referendum or federal legislation, which would override the state's constitution, can abolish it.
The constitution granted the federal government massive yet still limited powers preserved by the States.
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He was a legislative aide at the Federal Senate and the National Constitution Assembly.
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In 1946, the constitution of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia was promulgated.
Per the Constitution, the federal apparatus primarily pertains to matters of foreign policy.
May the federal government, under the Constitution's Commerce Clause, regulate economic "inactivity"?
The question before the Court is whether the Constitution gives the federal government the power to compel every American to have health insurance.
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Finally, under the U.S. Constitution, the federal government has no "more pressing need" or higher obligation than to provide for the common defense.
The Constitution allows the federal government to restrict interstate commerce, and the federal laws forbidding the interstate transfer of marijuana would remain in effect.
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The constitution gives the federal government the power to tax imports and exports, selling or manufacturing specific commodities (excise taxes) and incomes, and to impose user fees for government services.
The Constitution provides the federal government with few specific powers, such as providing for the common defense, regulating commerce, and taxation, which we know all too well this time of year.
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In defending the constitutionality of the Act, the federal government relies upon the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as the enumerated power supposedly delegating authority to the federal government for this regulatory compulsion.
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