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That’s why enacting, say, a constitutional amendment generally requires clearing far higher hurdles than passing a spending bill.
Moreover, although the current assistants’ authority is limited, Abe plans to submit legislation aimed at strengthening the prime minister’s office, including an amendment of the cabinet law.
Thousands marched in protest to the National Assembly in June, and the amendment has since been withdrawn.
And in the House of Representatives, the Republicans unanimously rejected every amendment, every compromise, and every courtesy that he offered.
Skeptics of the AU’s motives focus on Article 46A (bis) in the amendment to the court’s statute, which prohibits the prosecution of “any serving AU head of state or government…or other senior state officials based on their functions, during their tenure of office.”
In assessing the motives behind the amendment, these two categories of officials should be treated separately.
Indeed, the amendment not only lacks a clear definition of who belongs in this category; it also fails to identify who will make such decisions.
Obasanjo, besieged and angry that friends at home and abroad (particularly in the United States and Europe) betrayed him by aiding his political opponents in killing the amendment, is determined to settle scores.
But it is no coincidence that Obasanjo removed Okonjo-Iweala from a job for which she has proven competence and, more importantly, in which she ruled the roost: she had led the opposition from within the government to the constitutional amendment.
But the Russian Constitution requires a two thirds of Duma votes to pass a constitutional amendment.
The best approach, which would enable the government to avoid an endless political debate about which labor laws should be revoked, would be to approve a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right of workers to conclude private contracts with employers.
Is an amendment to the EU treaty required?
The West Is Wrong About China’s PresidentBEIJING – China’s recent constitutional amendment eliminating the term limits for the president and vice president has left much of the West aghast.
After all, changing the CPC charter is straightforward: Anyone who dares to disagree openly with a proposed amendment can look forward to a visit from the Party’s anti-corruption police.
An “optional” auxiliary amendment to the ICCPR, adopted in 1989, sought to close this loophole, but Botswana did not sign it.
In India, a 2005 amendment created a unique mechanism to restore balance and fairness to patenting standards, thereby safeguarding access.
Such an amendment would make the status quo the default option if the government failed to satisfy Parliament with the new arrangements negotiated over the next two years.
But that amendment, oddly, calls for the vice president to initiate such a proceeding – an unlikely scenario – and that such a move have the backing of a majority of the cabinet or the Congress.
But, as the accompanying amendment to grant immunity from prosecution to sitting heads of state and senior officials clearly demonstrates, it is actually a transparent effort to let guilty parties off scot-free.
A better option is the IMF’s Special Drawing Right (SDR), which the second amendment of the body’s Articles of Agreement asserts should become the world’s “principle reserve asset.”
Such an amendment is sorely needed to eliminate political gridlock, and Renzi has already succeeded in getting it through both chambers of Parliament.
Institutionally, this may be more complex than an EU-wide treaty amendment, but the result can be tailored and crafted more appropriately to the real situations of rather diverse countries.
The risk that the judges could rule the ESM illegal played no small part in efforts made in recent months by Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy to bind the EU to a revised and more intrusive economic governance framework, effected through an amendment to the existing treaties.
In the House of Lords, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, a former Lord Chancellor, moved an amendment requiring the bill to distinguish between marriage (same sex) and marriage (opposite sex).
With the defeat of the Clashfern amendment by 314 votes to 119, much of the bill’s original form remains intact.
In December, May lost her first important Brexit battle, when Labour MPs united with 12 Tory rebels to pass an amendment requiring a specific Act of Parliament to approve whatever deal is negotiated with the EU.
Whenever proposals have surfaced for some sort of balanced-budget amendment to the US Constitution, proponents have typically included exemptions not just for war, but also for recessions.
Moreover, a bipartisan approach might ease authorization for so-called Trade Promotion Authority, allowing the president to present an agreement for an up-or-down vote without possibility of amendment – which will be essential for the completion of negotiations.
In America’s current environment of extreme political polarization, however, such an outcome is almost as unlikely as a constitutional amendment preventing the House of Representatives from denying the government the funds that it needs to govern.
No one believes that a formal Charter amendment to abolish or limit this right is remotely likely.
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