This amendment has to receive a two-thirds (or more) majority of the vote in both the House and the Senate and then be ratified by the legislatures of 38 states before it can become part of the nation's fundamental law.
There are foreseeable risks, and a duty to inform people of those risks that is fundamental tort law in America.
"It guarantees the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law, " Ms Fernandez said.
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On Monday, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the agreement to set up a judicial commission "historic", saying it guaranteed "the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law".
The government's Communist allies have blocked fundamental labour-law reform.
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Your example of unfair compensation highlights a fundamental flaw in Big Law as it exists today.
Only in cases involving jus cogens the most fundamental principles of international law, such as the ban on torture or slavery does this rule not apply.
The case hinged upon a fundamental concept in antitrust law: It is illegal for a company to use its domination of one market to try to take over another.
And, a basic fundamental of interpretation of law (and all other law of the United States must ultimately arise from the Constitution) is that a law says what it says and does not say what it does not say.
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For this reason, of fundamental importance to humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions limited combatant status and prisoner-of-war protections only to those irregular forces that (1) wear uniforms, (2) carry their arms openly in all military operations, and (3) obey the laws of war.
But Starr's sense of honor and duty do not overcome this law's fundamental shortcomings.
It said Mr Obama had "immediately after his election, put an end to an approach to the challenges to national security... considered by Italy and the European Union not compatible with fundamental principles of rule of law".
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In the domestic sphere, notwithstanding Western conventional wisdom, there are no firm indications that Gorbachev's perestroika will lead to genuine democratization and rule of law or to fundamental improvements in the lives and liberties of ordinary Soviet citizens.
That includes the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, the free flow of information and all of the fundamental freedoms that are guaranteed under the Basic Law that governs Hong Kong.
The rulings also seem to breach a fundamental tenet of Anglo-American law: no right without a remedy.
John Wadham, director of civil rights organisation Liberty, described the law as "a fundamental part of our criminal justice system".
This fundamental feature of the corporate tax law is what drives much of the discussion for how businesses are sold.
Respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms without distinction of any kind is a fundamental rule of international human rights law.
The problem is fundamental to U.S. law: Appeals courts can only consider issues that were properly raised in the courts below them.
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Americans have always understood that each of us is entitled to a set of fundamental freedoms and protections under the law, and that when everyone gets a fair shot at opportunity, all of us do better.
At the very least, some defendants may be deprived of their fundamental right to due process of law a problem whose immediacy may be best illustrated when compared to regimes without such protections for the criminally accused (a topic further explored below).
The frightening answer is that like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, the tribunal does pretty much whatever it wants, showing scant regard for fundamental fairness, due process of law, and the well-established rules and procedures that have evolved under the Constitution for citizens' protection.
Instead, we have been witness to a grand public relations campaign designed to convince even the most skeptical observers that one of the most notorious terrorist organizations of the twentieth century has mutated into a democratic entity respectful of law and order and fundamental human rights.
Inscribed on the International UNESCO Memory of the World Register since 2009, the Charter established the right to free and fair trial, limits upon taxation, and the subjection of all citizens to the rule of law, amongst other fundamental constitutional principles that today are almost universally applied worldwide.
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Any debate on drugs law should start with a fundamental question: why are some drugs illegal in the first place?
India and America are separated by distance, but bound together by the values of democracy, pluralism, rule of law, and respect for fundamental human freedoms.
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Based on this premise, it is hoped that this calloboration would further strengthen universal respect for justice, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, regardless of race, gender, language or religion.
Unless we are prepared to abandon our fundamental values altogether, the rule of law must retain its vitality in war and in peace, even when terrorists topple our buildings into rubble and senselessly murder our citizens in the American homeland.
More than 170 MEPs have called for the European Parliament's Alliance of European National Movements - which includes the BNP - to have its allowance removed, arguing that its members fail to follow "the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law".
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And I look forward to have the privilege of welcoming you and your family to our country so that you can see for yourselves what we are trying to do, the difficulties of managing social and economic transformation in the framework of a democracy committed to the rule of law, committed to all fundamental human freedoms.
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