In doing so, it may well find itself taking another look at the broader constitutional issue.
It would be a committee of the whole house, because this is a constitutional issue.
Thus to the most Scrooge-like of all questions: Is there a constitutional issue here?
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Thus the spectre of disestablishment returns, not as a constitutional issue but as part of a cost-benefit analysis.
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And the 9th Circuit called Chemerinsky into brief the constitutional issue.
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Since most people doubt the existence of such things, it seems a rum way to run a parish poll, let alone to decide an important constitutional issue.
The justices did not address the underlying constitutional issue of the transfer of power to the president, and solely addressed whether the lawmakers could legally challenge the measure.
The case will be argued on March 22, and the Fourth Circuit has allotted an extraordinary 40 minutes per side for argument on the Noel Canning constitutional issue.
Then, as now, Scotland was faced with a constitutional issue.
Oneida-Herkimer, a case on the same constitutional issue, the Court determined laws that don't discriminate against private industry should also not be considered in violation of interstate commerce laws.
Appealing to the House to support her bill Mrs Baldwin said it was "the only vehicle available to colleagues who might want to see this great constitutional issue addressed".
"On the criminal side, either they have to prosecute diligently or they've got a constitutional issue that allows the defendant to walk" because of the right to a speedy trial, said Bennett.
What makes Mr Blair prone to accidents in Scotland is that politics north of the border divides not just on the usual left-right lines, but also over the constitutional issue, between those who want to keep Britain together and those who do not.
Besides the constitutional issue, the justices had specifically ordered both sides to argue a supplemental question: whether congressional Republicans -- operating officially as the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives -- have "standing" or legal authority to make the case.
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Mr Blair and his ministers have brushed aside such calls, even though many see it as odd to reject the idea of a referendum on the most important constitutional issue to have come before the country in decades, given that the Labour government has called 34 referendums on other issues (mainly about local mayors) since 1997.
Manuel Zelaya was trying to pass a non-binding referendum on the issue of constitutional reform.
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To date though she has not forced the issue of constitutional change.
The BBC's Nicholas Walton in Sarajevo says it looks like a large majority of Serbs agree on this policy, and that there could therefore be real trouble ahead on the issue of constitutional reform.
And partly because they suspect that the important issue is the constitutional one anyway.
Such self-imposed constitutional constraints are not an issue for South Korea.
In order to ensure a long-lasting bull market, Congress needs to fulfill its constitutional mandate requiring it to issue a stable dollar, rather than trying to legislate us toward rising share prices.
Constitutional monetary policy is no fringe issue.
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But while backbench Lib Dem MP Stephen Williams, a member of the constitutional reform select committee, said the issue wasn't a "coalition breaker" he said the British government should respect the European court's decision.
And the new European Stability Mechanism (ESM), designed to be more effective and flexible, is held up by a challenge in the German constitutional court, which is due to issue its verdict next month.
At that time, Mr Moi's 19-year-old administration and its political opponents were at each other's throats on this very issue: the call for constitutional reform to get rid of laws that have turned the president into a constitutional dictator despite Kenya's veneer of parliamentary democracy.
Opponents argued that the ban would infringe on freedom of expression, and that such an issue is not worthy of a constitutional amendment.
He is also seen as a good-hearted bumbler, whose administration fell because he couldn't count, and whose later attempt (as minister for constitutional affairs) to sort out the Quebec issue with the 1992 Charlottetown Accord failed in a referendum.
The issue in Dover was ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, it had very little to do with science.
The Court is not likely to rule on the bigger issue of whether gay couples have a constitutional right to marry.
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The justices as a group seemed anxious Monday to move beyond the narrow issue of jurisdiction and address the larger constitutional questions.
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