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The junta then assumed legislative authority, as well as the power to form a constitutional assembly and veto proposed constitutional provisions.
Together with related provisions that would provide meals to infants and expectant mothers, and subsidized pulses to supplement cheaply available food grains, the law will add $6 billion to India’s annual fiscal deficit.
The new law requires the consent of 80% of a major tract’s landowners before the state can acquire it, and includes exacting provisions for the rehabilitation and resettlement of those affected.
Controversial budget provisions that had earlier deterred investors are being reviewed.
Elements of a NWFZ can realistically be negotiated alongside the provisions of a credible and comprehensive peace deal, though the negotiations will undoubtedly be difficult.
Both PDVSA and the government can also use “exit consents”: changing some of the bonds’ terms – the pari passu clause used by Argentina holdouts, as well as other significant provisions – through agreement with a simple majority of PDVSA bondholders and two-thirds of holders of most government bonds.
These provisions provide broadly accepted starting points from which to work.
Legislating phony sunset provisions for current tax cuts, as the US did during the George W. Bush years, does not.
Concrete provisions must be included in the new treaty to reform the EU’s institutions in order to ensure the capacity to negotiate an energy security framework with third countries.
The powerful advanced-economy lobbies that have shaped that regime clearly put the latter first, reflected in their opposition to provisions recognizing intellectual property rights associated with traditional knowledge or biodiversity.
That is one reason why Greece, for example, has no legal provisions for banning parties.
Provisions to coordinate national economic policies are probably less of a danger because they are so vague that they could well remain a dead letter.
If the cost and financing estimates are accurate, and if Congress does not change any of these provisions in the future, the CBO’s calculations imply that the Senate Finance Committee plan would reduce fiscal deficits between now and 2019 by $49 billion, less than 1% of the projected deficits of more than $7 trillion.
Couple these tax increases and spending cuts with the provisions of “Obamacare,” the US health-care reform championed by President Barack Obama, and, as of January 1, 2013, America’s long-run structural budget deficit disappears.
And when someone has multiple passports from countries with denationalization laws, such provisions can trigger a race in which, as Audrey Macklin of the University of Toronto puts it, “To the loser goes the citizen.”
If future generations feel themselves bound by such provisions, they are, Bentham thinks, enslaved by long-dead tyrants.
If we do, why should provisions that make the constitution so difficult to amend bind a majority of the electorate?
Outsiders and the few Iraqi liberals worry mainly about this Islamic provision, but the widespread Sunni opposition to the constitution is aimed at other provisions: the exclusion of the “Saddamist Ba’ath Party” from political life and government, and the federalist provisions that grant autonomy to the 18 Iraqi provinces and allow them to combine into regional governments.
The Sunnis would probably accept the federalist provisions if they applied only to the Kurds.
It contained provisions that would have removed excessive presidential powers and given Kenyans a stronger bill of rights.
In the early 1990’s, Prime Minister John Major negotiated an opt-out from the Maastricht Treaty’s provisions on monetary union, but was proud that the pound was a stable and – as he saw it – central part of the EMS.
Unfortunately, while Berlusconi's government is invariably long on speeches, legal provisions designed to stop the clock on his court cases are among the few laws that have passed in his two years of government.
But that is not what these provisions are about.
Nonetheless, the US is demanding such provisions in the TPP, even though many of its “partners” have property protections and judicial systems that are as good as its own.
The real intent of these provisions is to impede health, environmental, safety, and, yes, even financial regulations meant to protect America’s own economy and citizens.
But now the same groups are attempting an end run around democratic processes by inserting such provisions in trade bills, the contents of which are being kept largely secret from the public (but not from the corporations that are pushing for them).
The question is whether we should allow rich corporations to use provisions hidden in so-called trade agreements to dictate how we will live in the twenty-first century.
Among the Pact’s provisions are major structural reforms that all parties agreed to support at the outset of the current administration.
Indeed, the Philippines is challenging China’s claims in the International Court of Arbitration, using provisions from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
But a better parallel is the right to gun ownership in the US and the constitutional provisions that support it.
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