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Abbas suspended Article 340, which offers a pardon for murder if the perpetrator committed the crime on finding his wife in bed with another man.
The reform was cosmetic: Article 340 had never been used in Palestinian courts since it was legislated in 1960.
"So why did we change the law? To garner public opinion," al-Ouri said in an interview in the presidential compound in Ramallah.
"I, personally, was against the amendment because the crimes that happen in the street have no relevance to Article 340," the legal adviser added.
Al-Ouri says the president will not change the go-to clauses for lawyers seeking leniency for clients who claim they committed murder to defend family "honor."
Articles 97 to 100 of the Jordanian Penal Code, in force in the West Bank, still offer reduced sentences for any act of battery or murder committed in a "state of rage."
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From the eastern summit top platform the route gradually descends along the eastern cantilever arm towards the central platform. The central platform allows you to traverse the width of the bridge high above the six lanes of traffic. Once on the western cantilever arm, climbers begin the gradual ascent to the western summit top platform, for another opportunity to take in the panorama. The route then follows down the western anchor arm of the bridge back through the road deck to the halfway house where the incline is once more at its steepest.
Viewing Highlights - What can you see and which way to look?From the summit of the bridge climbers will enjoy uninterrupted 360° views of Brisbane at twilight, its river and surrounding hills and mountains.
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text: Dominican Republic Approves CAFTA-DR Tariffs on both white and yellow corn will be set at zero duty immediately. Compiled by staff Published on: Sep 8, 2005 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print The Dominican Republic became the fourth country to approve the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement. El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and United States have already approved the agreement; Costa Rica and Nicaragua have not. "It's good to see the Dominican Republic sign on to CAFTA-DR," says Leon Corzine, National Corn Growers Association president. "These countries understand the importance of trade in our own hemisphere. We need to have a trade agreement with these countries in order to have strong relationships with them. It's good to see they want to have a strong relationship with the United States as well." President George W. Bush signed CAFTA-DR Aug. 2. CAFTA-DR provides immediate duty-free access to more than half of all U.S. agricultural exports to the region and will enhance U.S. agricultural exports by $1.5 billion when fully implemented. NCGA and other agriculture organizations have long touted the benefits this agreement provides to agriculture, including: Increasing agriculture exports by $900 million annually Immediate elimination of duties on more than 80 percent of U.S. exports Increasing exports of U.S. manufactured exports by approximately $3 billion annually Opening markets to give our growers access to important markets. "With the addition of the Dominican Republic, corn imports from the United States will grow from an average of $93.3 million (1999-2001) to $148.3 million in 2024," says June Silverberg, NCGA director of public policy. "Tariffs on both white and yellow corn will be set at zero duty immediately. As a result, we expect to see our exports to the Dominican Republic grow as a direct effect of the elimination of duties." U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman says, "We will be coordinating with the CAFTA governments over the next few weeks to determine when to put the agreement into effect." Corzine is excited the agreement could kick into effect soon. "We're moving very quickly," he says. "The quicker we enact the agreement, the quicker all of the countries involved can see the beneficial effects of free trade. This agreement is very beneficial to the United States economy and agriculture." Silverberg added, "The playing field is now level and with the addition of DR, our producers are provided with new opportunities to gain greater access to additional markets in the Dominican Republic."


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Great Pizza – As every other reviewer seems to have said, Zachary's is a great restaurant for pizza. We prefer their stuffed pizza. It's always a crowd-pleaser with us. Also, their half-baked pizzas are a really good idea if you are entertaining company.
ABSOLUTE BEST PIZZA in the Bay area – This pizza can not be beat at any time by any other bay area pizzeria. Their concept is truly remarkable as you decide what you want put in your order and then the wait at the table is not very long at all. How can you go wrong with the toppings that are normally on top stuffed inside and the sauce on the top. Our only regret is that we have to drive from the OC to SF to get the pizza. Heck if a round trip airflight can be had for a cheap price it would be worth flying to get this pizza. Recently there was a $9 sale for air travel from LA to SF and I had a friend that flew to SF went to dinner in SF and then came home to OC How much fun would that be No problem knowing where I would have been dining that evening GOOD at everything they do and the crowd is fun and you need to be patient because the wait is sometimes long but well worth every minute of it
Saved my night! – My kids dropped by for a surprise visit. I didn't have anything ready, so I ordered a large pizza from here. The service was very quick and the pizza was great! All my kids enjoyed it and I even had some leftovers for the next day.
Very good pizza – My friend got a pizza from here. I'm not usually into pizzas as much as she is, but I have to admit this was pretty good. I will probably go there if I'm ever in the mood for pizza again.
Zachary's Pizza = Good Grub! – Chicago can officially take a hike. You've been outdone. There's no shame in that. You're pizza is good, but Zachary's is amazing. How do they do it? Is it because they're 100% employee owned? Is it because they sprinkle magic deliciousness into the sauce? I don't know, and more importantly, I don't care. Just keep the Spinach and Mushroom stuffed pizza coming my way. Don't like Spinach and mushroom? At age six I wouldn't eat a mushroom dipped in nacho cheese, but I would down this stuff like nobody's business. This is one of those places were you probably never change your order, because it's just too good to experiment with. If the pizza itself wasn't enough to convince yourself, just take a look around the walls at the non-stop reviewers singing its praise. But more importantly, are the super-fan posters that cover the walls. I guess when you're this good, you don't need to invest in art. Don't be afraid of the crowded mess inside, because Zachary's will let you order your food as soon as you put in your name. And that's important, because for safety sake, when you smell that pizza floating around, piled up on bar stools next to people's tables, a riot could break out at any moment. This is the kind of place you order a large, knowing you can only stomach half, but the cold leftovers are an art unto itself. With the delicious flaky crust, toppings dancing with the cheese stuffed (most importantly) inside, and topped off with rich piles of chunky tomatoes, you'll never forgive yourself that you didn't go sooner. So grab a slice, dive in with a fork and knife, or pick it straight up if you're brave, and your belly will reach Good Grub euphoria before you know it. See more at www.thegoodgrub.weebly. com
Best pizza in town – Zachary's has some of the best pizza in the world. The deep dish spinach and mushroom is to die for.
Rarely, one receives atrocious service here, but who cares? -- the pizza is just that good
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Best deep dish in the Bay Area! – Legendary deep dishes this side of the Mississippi... try the vegetarian (tomato only) pizza, they are so fresh, cheesy, and delicious. Eat in or take out, both are excellent.
not impress – Well after many years of hearing about this place I ventured to it. I got lucky and had a parking place right in front 10 feet from the door at 1145 am. on a Thursday. I had called in for my order
I saddle up and paid. My stuffed, NOT DEEP DISH, mushroom and pepperoni would be ready in 8 minutes. The people were nice it was clean . A great place for a lunch. Mine was to go. Got it, was heavy Placed inside my car and home in 15 minutes . Opened, still too hot to eat. OK. Wheres the pepperoni . I see some mushrooms. Cooled it off took a bite. WHAT THE THE BIG DEAL. It reminded me of Round Table pizza. I love Round Table. The sauce is tangy lots of herbs.But Round T. have more fresh mushroom and pepperoni. Zach is different , lots of chunky tomatoes...which is nice i guess. BUT ...what is the deal all about ?
You all are caught in a marketing type frenzy or something it is not that impressive. Blondie was/ is good pizza. I will try the thin crust next time I am in the 'hood, This is really nothing to be ga ga over
Pizza that you can leave out – Nice enviorment with friendly waiters ... some wait expected unless off hours. BUT THE POINT IS - that pizza is way too salty and that famous tomato souce on top of the pizza taste like supermarket caned pasta souce, which is very disappointing. The pizza bread is dry and tasteless. It's way worse than my neighborhood pazzeria.
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Like the rest of Réunion, Saint-Denis has a tropical climate. Temperatures in the capital range between 70°F and 79°F (21°C-26°C). November to April is hot and rainy, while the rest of the year is slightly cooler and drier. Humidity is high, particularly on the east coast. Saint-Denis is home to the Indian Ocean's only tropical cyclone monitoring centre, although the island itself is only affected occasionally.
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From there, he sets his schedule accordingly, with the individual attributes he doesn't deem up to snuff serving as the areas he hits hardest.
Let's go to the checklist.
Speed? Check.
Strength? Check.
Run defense? Check.
Pass-rushing? No dice.
That's not to say Eguae doesn't still work on getting stronger and faster, or that he decides against putting maximum effort into run-support drills. He just knows there are deficiencies in his game that need to be shored up.
Namely, finding his way to the quarterback more often.
"I know I need to improve on my third-down defense as far as going out there working moves in pass-rushing," said the senior defensive end, who has collected 4.5 sacks in his first three seasons at Auburn. "That's what I've been working on. I know I need to go out there and get to the quarterback."
Enter Chuck Smith.
Eguae and other members of the Tigers' defensive line spent time with the former Atlanta Falcons defensive end in May. Smith tallied 58.5 sacks in nine seasons in the NFL from 1992-2000, posting double-digit sack totals in three different seasons. With his playing career behind him, Smith hosts an annual camp in Atlanta for college and pro players, placing an emphasis on improving every part of a camper's pass-rushing technique.
After working with Smith for a week, Eguae believes his technique is "light years" ahead of what it was at the end of last season.
"He's a pass-rush whiz as far as pass rush is concerned," Eguae said of Smith. "He definitely dissects it from the get-off to the attacking the tackle, working your hands. He gets into it all. He's intense. Anybody that is passionate about a craft that you're passionate about, you definitely can talk to for hours."
The terms "vision," "get off," "hands" and "hips," among others, were seared into Eguae's brain after his time around Smith. But that's a good thing, since he and his teammates who attended the camp have taken that knowledge into this summer's "captain's practices," replicating the same drills Smith put them through.
"'Live life like it's third-and-eight,'" Eguae said, quoting one of Smith's favorite sayings. "It's definitely something you remember and you think of when you're on the field."
The same could be said of last season.
The bitter memories of a 3-9 record have stuck with the Mansfield, Texas, native since the clock struck zero in Auburn's season finale against Alabama. Thinking about it "hurts," Eguae said. He knows the Tigers can't go back and change what happened, but it can be used as motivation.
And while last year's dreadful showing drives the team, Eguae made one think clear: It's not an all-consuming thought.
"We definitely don't let it dictate our everyday workout or anything we do," he said. "That's something that happened, it's in the past, but we go forward remembering it. We're looking forward to 2013. This is my last year, this is a lot of guys' last year. 'It's a new day,' like Coach (Gus) Malzahn says every day. We're looking forward to it, we put in the work and we can't wait to see the results."
Eguae was similarly delighted to ponder how good the defensive line can become, not only this fall, but in the years to come, as the Tigers boast a blend of experience and highly-touted incoming talent. In seniors like himself, Dee Ford, Kenneth Carter and Jeff Whitaker, Auburn isn't lacking for leadership. And then there are the newcomers people can't stop talking about in Carl Lawson and Montravius Adams.
The key, Eguae said, is to avoid complacency.
"I know guys have goals, I have my goals, Dee Ford has his goals, Ken Carter has (his) goals. All those guys have their goals," Eguae said. "Carl Lawson, everybody is going to have their goals. For us to get to where we want to be, we've got to push each other."
Eguae wouldn't offer any predictions as to where he felt the Tigers' line ranked relative to others in the SEC. That will be answered soon enough. Besides, look at how often preseason predictions are wrong, he said, pointing to the SEC media members abysmal mark in correctly picking the conference champion, which stands at 4-17 in the last 21 years. So no, there will be no prognostications coming from Eguae.
Let's just say if he and his teammates on the line play up to their potential this fall, he believes they'll stack up quite favorably among the best units in the league.
"We've played for years together and I feel like, as a collective group, we feel like it's our team to go out there and be a force in the SEC," Eguae said. "We've put in the work and we're looking forward to seeing everything come together and make a great year, not just for me, but the whole Auburn family."


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On Sunday:
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Seven Stops at Culinary Hotspots
TELLURIDE – Telluride has both a rich history and a rich culinary scene and now visitors and locals can experience both at once with Telluride Food Tours.
Launched in February by Brittanny Havard, Telluride Food Tours offers a two-and-a-half hour eat-your-way walking tour of Telluride that includes food and drink tastings at seven of Telluride's eclectic restaurants. During the tour, guides talk about Telluride's history, from its earliest days as a mining town to the early days of it's becoming a world class ski destination.
"The restaurants have been blowing the tour away," Havard says of the culinary hotspots that make up the Telluride Food Tours.
On a recent Thursday evening tour, guests were treated to a pork rillette tostada at There…(627 W. Pacific Ave.) along with a shaken gin and grapefruit cocktail. La Marmotte (150 W. San Juan Ave.) served up a small plate of grilled sea bass with lobster, tomato and Olathe sweet corn.
Locally brewed beer and juicy ribs were on the menu at Smugglers Brewpub (225 S. Pine St.).
An array of beautiful dishes including king crab legs and caprese salad made with rich buffalo mozzarella cheese was served on a kitchen-side table at Allred's (top of the gondola, St. Sophia Station). There was a special spicy elk sausage at the Appaloosa Trading Co. (129 W. Colorado Ave.) and a gigantic diver scallop served on a carrot/ginger puree at Flavor Telluride (122 S. Oak St.) with a refreshing cantaloupe, basil, cucumber, lime, and vodka drink.
Havard says that the tours she offers are not all the same. There is a rotating slate of participating restaurants that change things up, and the tours follow different routes as well. Other stops may include Arroyo and Telluride Truffle as well.
While food and drink may be the main attraction for some, Havard and her team of guides spice it up with Telluride's storied history, with support from the Telluride Historical Museum. From the ethnic neighborhoods of Telluride's mining days to the significance of the Roma Bar and from the country's first alternating power source to how Telluride got its name, there is plenty of history dished out along the way, some of it unknown even to longtime Telluride locals.
Havard borrowed the idea of combining food, history and a walking tour after she and her sister, along with a group of family and friends, recently joined a food/history tour of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan.
"That was really fun," Havard says. "When I got back to Telluride, I realized that it was a concept I could bring to Telluride. The tour benefits the town because it's a new activity and it benefits the restaurants."
Havard, who has a background in marketing, wrote a business plan for the Telluride Food Tours, set up a website, brushed up on her Telluride history, and launched the business. Since starting the business in February, she said it's popularity has been increasing, not only with visitors but with locals as well.
She plans to operate Telluride Food Tours in both the winter and summer months and recommends that visitors interested in a food tour set it up early in their stay as the tour will give them a good lay of the land when it comes choosing meals for the rest of the trip. Along with a bottle of water, the tour comes with a pocket size guidebook that contains a map of Telluride and restaurant information, along with a couple of local recipes and money-saving dining coupons.
Telluride Food Tours cost $65 per person and are available four days a week, Wednesday-Saturday, starting at 4:30 p.m.
Visit the Telluride Food Tours website telluridefoodtours.net/ for more information or to set up a reservation.
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Parliamentary sovereignty
Parliamentary sovereignty (also called parliamentary supremacy or legislative supremacy) is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies. It holds that the legislative body has absolute sovereignty, and is supreme over all other government institutions, including executive or judicial bodies. The concept also holds that the legislative body may change or repeal any previous legislation, and so that it is not bound by written law (in some cases, even a constitution) or by precedent. Parliamentary sovereignty may be contrasted with the doctrines of separation of powers, which limits the legislature's scope often to general law-making, and judicial review, where laws passed by the legislature may be declared invalid in certain circumstances. Many states have sovereign legislatures, among which are the United Kingdom,[1] Finland, Israel, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and others.
According to the constitution of Finland sovereign power lies with the people, represented by the parliament.[2] As the highest organ of government the parliament holds supreme legislative power and can override a presidential veto and alter the constitution. There is no constitutional court and the supreme court does not have an explicit right to declare a law unconstitutional.
By principle, the constitutionality of laws in Finland is verified by a simple vote in the parliament. However, the Constitutional Law Committee of the parliament reviews any doubtful bills and recommends changes, if needed. In practice, the Constitutional Law Committee fulfils the duties of a constitutional court. In addition to preview by the Constitutional Law Committee, all Finnish courts of law have the obligation to give precedence to the constitution when there is an obvious conflict between the Constitution and a regular law.
The power to alter and amend the constitution is vested with the parliament, requiring approval either by a two-thirds majority in a single parliament if the proposed alteration is first declared to be urgent by a five-sixths majority of the same parliament, or by a slower procedure of first passing the amendment by a simple majority in the then current parliament and then passing the amendment by a two-thirds majority in the following parliament that convenes after a general election. A Finnish peculiarity is that the parliament can make exceptions to the constitution in ordinary laws that are enacted in the same procedure as constitutional amendments. An example of such a law is the State of Preparedness Act which gives the Council of State certain exceptional powers in cases of national emergency. As these powers, which correspond to U.S. executive orders, affect constitutional basic rights, the law was enacted in the same manner as a constitutional amendment. However, it can be repealed in the same manner as an ordinary law.
Executive power is shared by the President of the Republic and the cabinet. The latter must rely on the confidence of parliament. From the independence of Finland in 1917 up to the constitutional reform of 1999, the president held considerable executive powers, and in particular was able to call a re-election of the parliament at will. In order to strengthen the role of the parliament as the highest organ of government, the constitutional reform constrained most of the presidential powers to be exercised only on the advice of the cabinet.[3]
New Zealand[edit]
The concept of parliamentary sovereignty in New Zealand is derived from that in the United Kingdom:
The constitutional position in New Zealand [...] is clear and unambiguous. Parliament is supreme and the function of the courts is to interpret the law as laid down by Parliament. The courts do not have a power to consider the validity of properly enacted laws.[4]
In recent years, some legal experts have questioned parliamentary sovereignty.[5] Moreover, a few laws and conventions exist that limit the exercise of parliamentary sovereignty. For example, the maximum term of Parliament and some other matters relating to the electoral system may only be altered by a parliamentary supermajority or by a majority in a popular referendum.
United Kingdom[edit]
Parliament means, in the mouth of a lawyer (though the word has often a different sense in conversation) The King, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons: these three bodies acting together may be aptly described as the "King in Parliament", and constitute Parliament. The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty mean neither more nor less than this, namely that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever: and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.—A.V. Dicey Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885)
During the 17th century the idea grew in England that parliament (House of Lords and House of Commons) shared in the sovereignty, based on an entirely erroneous notion of the history of parliament.[6] It was not until the changing of the Coronation Oath in the Coronation Oath Act 1688 as part of the Glorious Revolution that Parliament was recognised as part of the constitutional structure, with laws being considered to emanate from parliament and not just the King.[7] It is arguable whether the concept of parliamentary supremacy arose from the Acts of Union 1707 or was a doctrine that evolved thereafter.[8] After 1689 English parliamentary supremacy began to be seen in the relation of the English parliament to those of Scotland and Ireland. The Act of Settlement 1700 made a presumption upon Scotland: the Scots retaliated with the Act of Security 1704, which was countered by the Alien Act 1705: the issue was settled by the Union of English and Scottish parliaments in 1707 which created a new British parliament, though "in essence it was just an extension of the English parliament".[9] The autonomy of the Irish parliament also came under attack and the Declaratory Act 1720 made the Irish parliament a dependency. The so-called Constitution of 1782 removed British parliamentary supremacy over Ireland for a short period but then the Irish parliament was merged with Britain's in the Acts of Union 1801.
The doctrine of parliamentary supremacy may be summarised in three points:
- Parliament can make laws concerning anything.
- No Parliament can bind a future parliament (that is, it cannot pass a law that cannot be changed or reversed by a future Parliament).
- A valid Act of Parliament cannot be questioned by the court. Parliament is the supreme lawmaker.
Some scholars and judges have questioned the traditional view that Parliament cannot bind itself, arguing that it can impose procedural (or "manner and form") restrictions on itself, since the legislature must be constituted and regulated by legal rules.[10]
The notion of parliamentary sovereignty began to be challenged with the Parliament Act 1911 which changed the nature of what was meant by parliament, as Dicey regretfully noted in the Introduction to the 8th edition of his Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1915), but that while the reality was now Cabinet and political party were supreme (pp lxxii-lxxiv), in law parliament was still sovereign albeit that "the share of sovereignty" of the Commons had increased (p xlii).
European law does not recognise the British concept of parliamentary supremacy.[11] The UK courts currently recognize the supremacy of EU law on those subjects where the EU can legislate.[12][13] However, this supremacy conceptually derives from the European Communities Act 1972 and its successors, which could in theory be repealed by a future parliament. No actual sovereign state has ever withdrawn from the European Union (except for the withdrawal of the North African Départments of France at Independence to become Algeria, and also of Greenland by Plebiscite), but since the passage of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 there is now a defined process for doing so.
Some jurists have suggested that, following the Act of Union 1707, the principle of parliamentary sovereignty may not apply in Scotland. Although no Scottish court has yet openly questioned the validity of an Act of Parliament, certain judges have raised the possibility. Thus, in MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, the Lord President (Lord Cooper) stated that "the principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish Constitutional Law", and that legislation contrary to the Act of Union would not necessarily be regarded as constitutionally valid. Also, in Gibson v Lord Advocate, Lord Keith was circumspect about how Scottish courts would deal with an Act, which would substantially alter or negate the essential provisions of the 1707 Act, such as the abolition of the Court of Session or the Church of Scotland or the substitution of English law for Scots law.
The establishment of the Scottish Parliament has meant that area of parliamentary supremacy is redefined.[citation needed][original research?] For example, nuclear power is not within its competence, but the Scottish government successfully blocked the wishes of the UK government to establish new nuclear power stations in Scotland using control over planning applications which is devolved.[14] While it remains theoretically possible to dissolve the Scottish Parliament or legislate without its consent in relation to Scotland, in practice such a move would be politically difficult.
England and UK generally[edit]
Parliamentary supremacy is blamed by contemporary legal historians[who?] for the failure of English law to develop due process in the American sense (that is, a mechanism for protecting the human rights of individuals from being arbitrarily infringed by the government).[15] Nonetheless, England was the first country to introduce a bill of rights to protect the rights of its citizens, enacted by the Parliament of England in 1689.[16]
The doctrine of parliamentary supremacy, in English Law, has been upheld in 2005 by Lord Bingham in the case of R (Jackson) v Attorney General:
The bedrock of the British Constitution is … the Supremacy of the Crown in Parliament.[17]
However there is a distinction to be made between legal sovereignty and political sovereignty. Parliament is not politically sovereign, which means that if Parliament does pass unpopular or oppressive legislation, then it may not be applied in practice; for example, the various civil servants who administer laws within government departments may be relied upon to use any loopholes and vague language which exist in a Bill to get around unwanted areas, and the judiciary is likely to purposefully interpret and create precedent for said laws in a similar manner. However this does not necessarily mean that Parliament is not legally sovereign. It is argued that nonetheless Parliament can legally pass any legislation it wishes. This point is made clearly by Lord Reid in Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke [1969] 1 AC 645:
It is often said that it would be unconstitutional for the United Kingdom Parliament to do certain things, meaning that the moral, political and other reasons against doing them are so strong that most people would regard it as highly improper if Parliament did these things. But that does not mean that it is beyond the power of Parliament to do such things. If Parliament chose to do any of them, the courts would not hold the Act of Parliament invalid.'[18]
Recent developments[edit]
In recent years some judges and scholars in Britain and New Zealand have questioned the traditional view that parliament is sovereign.[19] Others, however, have rejected these arguments.[20] Various constitutional changes in the United Kingdom have influenced the renewed debate about parliamentary sovereignty:
- The devolution of power to regional assemblies in Scotland (Scottish Parliament), Wales (Welsh Assembly) and Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Assembly). All three assemblies can pass primary legislation within the areas that have been devolved to them, but their powers nevertheless all stem from the UK Parliament and can be withdrawn unilaterally. The Northern Ireland Assembly, in particular, has been suspended multiple times due to political deadlocks.
- The UK's membership of the European Economic Community, later the European Union, from 1973. The EU represents, as the European Court of Justice ruled in 1963 in the case Van Gend en Loos, a "new legal order of international law for the benefit of which the [Member] States have limited their sovereign rights, albeit within limited fields". The UK became part of that legal order, though as UK membership of the EU has been brought about through Acts of Parliament – principally the European Communities Act 1972 – Parliament could, as a matter of UK law, pass further legislation unilaterally withdrawing the UK from the Union, or selectively barring the application of European law within the UK. The European Union Act 2011 reaffirmed that the sovereignty lied with the British Parliament, with section 18 stating: "Directly applicable or directly effective EU law (that is, the rights, powers, liabilities, obligations, restrictions, remedies and procedures referred to in section 2(1) of the European Communities Act 1972) falls to be recognised and available in law in the United Kingdom only by virtue of that Act or where it is required to be recognised and available in law by virtue of any other Act."[21] The Act also requires that a referendum be held when more powers are transferred to the European Union (though this can be repealed with another Act of Parliament). Alternatively, an Act to withdraw from the European Union could be passed in parallel with the withdrawal procedure laid down in Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, whereby a Member State would notify the European Council of its intention to secede from the Union and a withdrawal agreement would be negotiated between the Union and the State. The Treaties would cease to be applicable to that State from the date of the agreement or, failing that, within two years of the notification.
- Following the case of Thoburn v Sunderland City Council certain statutes are perceived to be protected as Constitutional Statutes. The case involved amendments to the Weights and Measures Act 1985 by the Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Metrication) (Amendment) Order 1994 pursuant to Directive 80/181/EEC. This stated that Imperial measurements could be displayed so long as the metric measurements were displayed in larger type beside them. Thoburn was convicted for only displaying Imperial measurements. In his defence he argued that allowing even limited use of Imperial measurements was inconsistent with the European directive and therefore in contravention of Section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and that the relevant section of the 1972 Act had therefore been implicitly repealed. However, the judgement by Lord Justice Laws held that certain statutes of constitutional importance, including Magna Carta and the European Communities Act 1972, could not be repealed by implied repeal. The case also introduces the concept of a 'hierarchy of acts', which is used in other European countries,[22] to English constitutional law. However if Parliament did make its intention to overrule any statute express then any statute can be repealed, and so sovereignty is preserved.
- The enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998 which incorporates part of the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law. The Act gives UK courts the power to issue a declaration of incompatibility where they believe that the terms of an Act of Parliament are in contravention of the rights guaranteed by the Human Rights Act. The effect of the declaration is not to annul the contravening Act but to send a signal to Parliament which may then choose to amend the offending provision. This does not endanger Parliamentary sovereignty because Parliament may choose not to amend the offending provisions. As with the UK's membership of the European Union, the principle of parliamentary supremacy means that Parliament can at any time vote to repeal the Human Rights Act, and indeed the UK's ratification of the Convention itself.
However, Parliament may theoretically withdraw from commitments it has made or repeal any of the constraints it has imposed on its ability to legislate.
Canadian provinces[edit]
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Legislatures of Canadian provinces are sovereign within matters that are not delegated to the confederation government. Provincial legislatures can make and modify their own codified constitutions by simple majority, as British Columbia did. Other provinces have uncodified constitutions like New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Australian states[edit]
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"In Australia, the idea of Parliamentary Sovereignty must be understood in the context of the rigid limits and boundaries imposed by the federal Constitution, and to some extent by the State Constitutions as well."[23]
The Constitution confers the power to make laws on the Commonwealth Parliament. However, the power of the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws is limited to particular subjects.S128 of Federal Constitution prescribed the mode to alter the constitution, which further restricted the power of the Commonwealth Parliament.
The State Parliament Power is approximate to Dicey's conception of Parliamentary sovereignty [24] There are procedural limitation, which is the entrenchment of restrictive legislative procedure. s6 of Australia Act states laws concerning the "constitution, power or procedure of the parliament" is invalid unless it passed in the manner and form prescribed by the legislation made by the Parliament.[25] However, restriction of this kind is not inconsistent with parliamentary sovereignty.
Papua New Guinea[edit]
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"The national courts are therefore obliged to give effect to those Treaty obligations, even if this means disapplying national law.
See also[edit]
- Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Factortame case
- List of democracy and elections-related topics
- Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
- Congress of People's Deputies of Russia
- ^ UK principle: no Parliament is bound by the acts of its predecessors
- ^ http://web.eduskunta.fi/Resource.phx/parliament/relatedinformation/constitution.htx Constitution of England. Retrieved on 2009-01-27.
- ^ Parliamentarism-thisisFINLAND, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
- ^ Rothmans of Pall Mall (NZ) Ltd v A-G [1991] 2 NZLR 323 at 330 (HC).
- ^ Taylor v. New Zealand Poultry Board [1984] 1 NZLR 394 at 398 per Cooke J; Sir Robin Cooke "Fundamentals" [1988] New Zealand Law Journal 158; Dame Sian Elias "Sovereignty in the 21st Century: Another Spin on the Merry-go-round" (2003) 14 Public Law Review 148; Sir Edmund Thomas "The Relationship of Parliament and the Courts" (2000) 5 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 9; Philip Joseph "Parliament, the Courts, and the Collaborative Enterprise" (2004) 15 King's College Law Journal 321.
- ^ Pocock, J.G.A The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law Cambridge University Press (1987) pp234-235
- ^ Harris, Tim Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy 1685-1720 Allen Lane (2006) p349
- ^ Alder, John Constitutional and Administrative Law 7th edition Palgrave Macmillan (2009) p167
- ^ Harris, Tim Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy 1685-1720 Allen Lane (2006) p498
- ^ W. Ivor Jennings The Law and the Constitution (London: University of London Press, 1st ed., 1933); R.T.E. Latham The Law and the Commonwealth (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1949); Geoffrey Marshall, Constitutional Theory (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971); Jackson v. Attorney General [2005] UKHL 56 at [81] per Lord Steyn; Harris v. Minister of the Interior 1952 (2) SA 428(A).
- ^ Alder, John Constitutional and Administrative Law 7th edition Palgrave Macmillan (2009) p173
- ^ Berry, Elspeth and Hargreaves, Sylvia European Union law Oxford University Press 2nd edition (2007) p39 "The national courts are therefore obliged to give effect to those Treaty obligations, even if this means disapplying national law."
- ^ Turpin, Colin & Tomkins, Adam British government and the constitution: text and materials Cambridge University Press (2007) p 335
- ^ Johnson, Simon (16 April 2009). "Cross-border row rages over SNP blocking new nuclear power stations". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 8 September 2010.
- ^ John V. Orth, Due Process of Law: A Brief History (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003), 28-31.
- ^ Thatcher, Oliver Joseph (ed.) (1907). The library of original sources. University Research Extension. p. 10.
- ^ [2005] UKHL 56 [9](Lord Bingham).
- ^ [1969] 1 A.C. 645, 723 (Lord Reid).
- ^ Taylor v. New Zealand Poultry Board [1984] 1 NZLR 394 at 398 per Cooke J; Sir Robin Cooke "Fundamentals" [1988] New Zealand Law Journal 158; Lord Woolf "Droit Public - English Style" [1995] Public Law 72; Sir John Laws "Law and Democracy" [1995] Public Law 72; Sir Stephen Sedley "The Constitution in the Twenty-First Century" in Lord Nolan and Sir Stephen Sedley (eds.) The Making and Remaking of the British Constitution (London, Blackstone Press, 1997); TRS Allan Law, Liberty, and Justice: The Legal Foundations of British Constitutionalism (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993); Dame Sian Elias "Sovereignty in the 21st Century: Another Spin on the Merry-go-round" (2003) 14 Public Law Review 148; Sir Edmund Thomas "The Relationship of Parliament and the Courts" (2000) 5 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 9; Philip Joseph "Parliament, the Courts, and the Collaborative Enterprise" (2004) 15 King's College Law Journal 321; Jackson v. Attorney General [2005] UKHL 56 at [102] per Lord Steyn, at [104] per Lord Hope of Craighead, at [159] per Baroness Hale of Richmond.
- ^ Lord Bingham of Cornhill The Rule of Law (London, Allen Lane, 2010); Jeffrey Goldsworthy The Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999).
- ^ European Union Act 2011
- ^ European Commission website
- ^ Blackshield and Williams Australian Constitutional Law and Theory, 5th ed, 2010
- ^ AV Dicey, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. 10th Ed 1959
- ^ Attorney-General (NSW) v Trethowan [1931] HCA 3; (1931) 44 CLR 394


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text: Muppet Mafia Hosted by: Ditto and Crux Approved by: billymills You all walk into the Muppet Theater for another day of work and fun, expecting the same type of day you've had since you were created. Just another day of performing and playing with your friends. However, this is a day unlike all others before it. When you enter into the Muppet you see a body lying dead on the stage. All 25 of you run up to the stage to take a closer look and it is none other than your friend and creator, Jim Henson. You see a blood stained note on top of his lifeless body. It reads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UYFMbzeNyU Having found the dead body of your creator, all the Muppets break down. Since you don't know who to trust, you try to form secret alliances with those who you think have similar interests. Seeing this tragedy has brought out the inner darkness within you all. While originally made for children's shows, you are now only instruments of battle. However, since you have all worked together for years, you try and keep appearances natural as to not arouse suspicion out of the other Muppets. ROLE PMS ARE GOING OUT NOW! DO NOT POST UNTIL THEY HAVE ALL GONE OUT! Rules (Move your mouse to reveal the content) Rules (open) Rules (close) 1.) Whilst you are alive you can talk to anyone about the game. Once you are dead you cannot talk to anyone about the game, unless you are mafia and on the same team, in which case you may talk with members of your team only, and only for strategy purposes. Knowledge acquired after death cannot be transferred from a dead player to a living player. Additionally, people cannot come back from the dead, ever. 2.) Every user has a role PM. Role PMs may not be shown to other users on Night 0, but starting from Day 1 onwards they may be freely distributed. Screenshotting of all forms is banned. If anyone finds a person encouraging others to take screenshots or taking screenshots and showing other people, please be sure to report it. 3.) You can paste things told to you by the host. You may fake logs. Do not take pasting of a host conversation as definite proof, these can be faked. If you want to fake a log, feel free to PM one of the hosts for assistance. Impersonation of a host or another user however, is banned at all points. Please do not attempt to impersonate in any way. 4.) Each day will have a deadline of 48 hours. You may vote to lynch users during the day by posting "verb USER" in bold, or "No lynch" if you don't want to lynch anyone (lynch votes will not count if they're not in the correct format!), and if you change your vote, you MUST edit the bolded text out of the old post if you post with a new vote. 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CJ 450 Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice
Kurita, M. Sue
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March 17to May 10, 2008
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EN 105, EN 106, passing the WCT
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Additional Resources: Reference and materials necessary to complete the thesis such as books, periodicals, interviews and studies.
McAfee Memorial Library - Online information, links, electronic databases and the Online catalog. Contact the library for further assistance via email or at 800-270-4347.Career Counseling - The Career Development Center (CDC) provides services for all stages of career development. The mission of the CDC is to provide the career planning tools to ensure a lifetime of career success.Park Helpdesk - If you have forgotten your OPEN ID or Password, or need assistance with your PirateMail account, please email email@example.com or call 800-927-3024Resources for Current Students - A great place to look for all kinds of information http://www.park.edu/Current/.
This capstone course addresses current issues and trends in criminal justice with emphasis on group discussion. Each student will be required to prepare, submit and defend a senior thesis. Successful completion of the thesis is mandatory. This course will satisfy the EN 306 requirement for Criminal Justice majors. Prerequisites: EN105, EN 106, passing the WCT and senior standing 3:0:3. (From catalog 2007-2008)
Educational Philosophy: Judge Kurita's educational philosophy is one of open interactiveness based on lectures, dialogues, and student thesis topics. Judge Kurita will engage each student in what is referred to as socratic classroom dialog learning to encourage the lively exploration of ideas, issues and contradictions of each students thesis topic.
Learning Outcomes: Core Learning Outcomes
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Late Submission of Course Materials: Late work will be docked a letter grade.
Classroom Rules of Conduct: Exhibit courtesy to all in the class. This is especially important to insure that all opinions are respected as well as fostering an environment for open factually based discussions.
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MARCH 21 Discuss paper topics
MARCH 28 Approve and assign topics for paper
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APRIL 25 Research and drafting of project
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Academic Honesty:Academic integrity is the foundation of the academic community. Because each student has the primary responsibility for being academically honest, students are advised to read and understand all sections of this policy relating to standards of conduct and academic life. Park University 2007-2008 Undergraduate Catalog Page 85-86
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Tamisha R. Snead and Charles S. Broadwell were married Nov. 4 at the Gwinnet Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville. The Rev. Tom Johnson officiated the ceremony.The bride is the daughter of Melanie Huckins of Lawrenceville. She is a 2001 graduate of Central Gwinnett High School. She is a graduate of Georgia Perimeter College, where she received a degree in business. The groom is the son of Steve and Jackie Broadwell of Jefferson. He is a 1999 graduate of Phoenix High School and a 2002 graduate of Gainesville State College. He is employed by Bowman Hollis Manufacturing as an outside sales representative. Allison Brooks of Lawrenceville served as the bride's maid of honor. Katie Rosekrans of Lawrenceville served as the bride's matron of honor. James Sapecky of Lawrenceville served as the groom's best man. Travis Bruno of Dallas served as a groomsman. After a honeymoon in the Bahamas, the couple now resides in Alabama.
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The first Sunday Assembly outside London will take place in Glasgow on March 31st. The venue is still being finalised, but the speaker will be the wonderful Susan Calman.
The Sunday Assembly is part-foot stomping show, part-atheist church and all celebration of life. It's super fun.
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Watch the right hand of Chiney Ogwumike.
And even with Tara VanDerveer's pledge not to go ugly, watch for bruises on the UConn players.
UConn and Stanford will run great offense Saturday at Maples Pavilion. They always do. The road map for Geno Auriemma and VanDerveer followed to their induction in the Basketball Hall of Fame demanded precise, creative and unselfish ball movement. The two took the ballet to Springfield. They didn't take the dump truck.
"UConn and Stanford are the two prettiest teams to watch when they're playing well," said Doris Burke, the ESPNU analyst for the showdown between the nation's top-ranked teams. "They're aesthetically pleasing.
"Geno and Tara have a definitive idea of who they want taking the most shots. They put their players in the best position to score. They don't turn the ball over. They have a vision of how the game should be played, both from a strategic standpoint and in terms of a purity and honor of the game. They play it to a standard, not a score."
Having said all that, maybe in April we'll look back and say that this wasn't the real No. 1 vs. No. 2. Maybe we'll look back and say that Stanford only beat Baylor by two in Hawaii in November because Odyssey Sims missed 36 minutes with a hamstring injury. Maybe in April, we will be burning incense at the altar of Brittney Griner's greatness.
This is still December. Stanford is No. 1. UConn is No. 2. And one of the teams is going to have to trip up the other's ballet. Somebody is going to have to throw a wrench in a purring engine of those motion offenses. Like we said: Watch the right hand. Watch for bruises.
"I think [the biggest key of the game] will be the Kelly Faris-Chiney Ogwumike matchup," said Rebecca Lobo, who'll serve as the ESPNU sideline reporter. "I think Chiney is what makes that team run. Kelly did a really nice job defending her a year ago. She is really the only player UConn has that defensively is a good matchup for Chiney. For UConn to beat Stanford I think Kelly has to have a great game defensively.
"She has to make things hard for Chiney. She can hit the free-throw line jumper, but where Chiney is so tough is putting the ball on the floor especially going right with a dribble or two to the basket. She's probably the best offensive rebounder in women's college basketball. Kelly has to keep her off the offensive glass. Chiney is just a monster."
A monster with some new flight patterns.
"Stanford is running a different offense this year, too," Lobo said. "They're not running the triangle. They're running a bit more Princeton offense, more pick and roll and a lot of it goes to Chiney. She is going to have her hands on the ball a lot."
Asked the same question about the No.1 key, Burke took a similar track.
"If UConn's defense can disrupt the rhythm and flow of Stanford, they have a great chance to win," she said. "You need to take away their catch and shoot transition opportunities. You let them catch and shoot, they will beat you.
"I think they'll sit heavy on Chiney's right hand. Try to take that away. Give her a jump shot at 15 feet as opposed to a right-handed drive. And you have to take away her offensive rebound opportunities."
Ogwumike averages 21.8 points and 12.8 rebounds per game, including five on the offensive end.
"I'm sure Kelly will end up guarding Chiney and I'm sure that will happen frequently," Auriemma said. "But one of the problems is if you put Kelly on her, Stefanie [Dolson] is stuck guarding most of the time on the perimeter. We'll have to be smart about it.
"I'm not worried about Kelly defensively. I don't think there's anyone in the country she can't guard. We've just got to be careful what the other matchups are. Helping ourselves in one area can hurt ourselves in another."
Lobo raved about this UConn team's chemistry. The more she watches tapes of other teams around the country, she said, the more she appreciates UConn's motion offense and unselfish passing. Burke said because of his coaching ability, Auriemma has scored 25 to 30 win seasons with teams that didn't play the prettiest offense, or had the greatest talent.
"But this team to me is vintage UConn," Burke said. "What strikes me is how they move the ball and how many different scoring options they have. They beat you with interior play. They beat you with exterior play.
"You have to take transition away from UConn or they can make you look foolish, it's like layup lines. And if I'm Stanford, I'm looking at those 90 threes UConn has made. Five players have double-digit threes. They're shooting at a 40 percent clip. You better contest the three."
We saw what Maryland's and Penn State's recent response was to offensive flow and so much depth. They flexed their muscles. They prayed for the referee to bury their whistles.
"Penn State and Maryland both showed that it can be effective in disrupting UConn's offense by being physical," Lobo said."That's how Stanford played UConn two years ago when they ended the streak. Tara has big players who can play a physical brand of basketball. I would imagine they will play as physically as they can."
Said Burke, "Remember when Chiney took on Maya Moore and how physical she was. Stanford has that ability at certain positions. That's' where Mikaela Ruef was so integral against Baylor."
It also will be interesting how Stanford decides to attack freshman Breanna Stewart. Will they make her life miserable by trying to bog her down with physical play?
"Breanna Stewart has been impressive," Lobo said, "although I don't think she has shown what she can do."
"This is where I get crazy," Burke said. "I used to nitpick Maya Moore for not getting to the free-throw line more. What strikes me about Breanna is it doesn't look to me that she knows exactly how good she is. She's getting 17 and seven and it's an easy 17 and seven. There's still times she looks like she's bouncing around the floor and not necessarily dominating as much as she can. There's not a place she can't score from."
Will the whistles blow? Will the bruises mount? For her part, VanDerveer steered all talk away from the rough stuff.
"Philosophically, I think basketball is different than wrestling, hockey and football," VanDerveer said. "I think there is a part for physical play, but not at the expense of the athleticism and skill our team has. Quite honestly, our team has never said we're going to try to beat you up instead of beat you at basketball.
"I feel the game has become too physical and it doesn't highlight the great skill of the female players that people pay good money to come and watch. From my point of view, it will be a basketball game."
Responded Auriemma: "That's great to hear. Because last time we were here [2010] we probably could have used some helmets. That was one of the more physical games played that year."
My view? Watch Ogwumike's right hand.
And watch to see if UConn bruises.


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Ivan manages the education and community outreach programs at CIES. As a former police officer, Ivan has witnessed firsthand the discrimination and violence directed towards street youth. "These youth have a lot of potential and creativity," he explains. "If they are reacting aggressively against adults, it's because they have had to live through harsh discrimination."
Ivan's deep commitment and natural ability to relate to young people has helped to establish CIES as a welcoming place that respects street kids' rights and dignity. "Working with young people really changes your life," he says, "They have taught me that exercising power is not about a uniform or rank, but about how you communicate with people and your community."