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.
The entire exercise, in Kurdish eyes, was a triumph, albeit just a big step on the way to guaranteeing extreme autonomy in a soon-to-be-drafted 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.
The government, to its credit, must have thought that it had drawn much of the poison of ethnic competition by introducing a new federal constitution in 1994, with many powers devolved to the regions, and by accepting the independence of Eritrea in 1993.
The contest between theocratic politics and a notionally secular state looks even more unequal in another ex-British land, Malaysia, where freedom of choice in religion is enshrined in the federal constitution, but Islamic law is imposed with growing strictness on the Muslim majority.
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.
There is no legal standing for social programs or welfare at the federal level in our Constitution.
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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.
Today, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the Terrorist Surveillance Program violates both federal law and the constitution.
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.
"This double standard for the mosque has deprived ICM of its legal rights under federal law and the Constitution, serves no public purpose and threatens to cripple ICM's ability to observe Ramadan, " the lawsuit states.
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"?
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