... of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract What factors account for polarization in constitutional conventions comprised of party members and many independents without prior legislative experience? Using...

... University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Mechanisms of popular participation, such as constitutional conventions and citizen assemblies, emerge as a near-universal canon of every political discussion on how...

... in Libya. Two-thirds of MPs backed the invasion of Iraq in 2003 while a million people marched against it in the streets. MPs twice approved UK involvement in the coalition against Da’esh. Most observers concluded that a new constitutional convention emerged from these events, requiring future governments...

... prevailed. In this way, the Constitutional Convention produced a government of separate institutions, each with the will and ability to defend its independence. Majorities would rule, but the Constitution made it very difficult to assemble majorities large enough to let the government act. The book...

... War. Dual federalism emerged as the theoretical touchstone of the nineteenth century, establishing the classical idealism for which later dualist models would yearn. Even so, the challenges of jurisdictional overlap were clear as early as the Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention’s...

...The Northern Ireland Labour Party's (NILP) Constitutional Convention manifesto made clear the party's belief in the British connection. It advocated a strong local Executive presiding over departmental committees in which Protestants and Catholics would ‘share responsibility’. The relations between...

... at the Constitutional Convention election in 1975. The NILP's fraternal relationship with the British Labour Party (BLP) had been the ideological linchpin for many labourists in Northern Ireland throughout the twentieth century. The Campaign for Labour Representation continued to seek full rights for Northern Ireland's...

... and final time. Isaac H. Anderson focused on his ministerial career while his father and former master, William Jackson Anderson won a seat in the Georgia Senate representing Fort Valley and Houston County in their home district. Dabney Robert Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868 Thompson C...

...The complex story of the intellectual origins of the American presidency has yet to be told. Earlier scholarship has assumed that uncomplicated republican motivations drove the founders, but recent research has spotlighted the royalist sympathies at the Constitutional Convention, based on European...

... of the 1780s framed questions of territory and statehood. It then explores in detail the debates surrounding new state admissions and the Northwest Ordinance in the Constitutional Convention, showing how contingent the final outcome of the Electoral College was, and how questions like the equal footing...

...This chapter discusses the variety of mechanisms available to propose changes to state constitutions. Amendments or revisions of state constitutions can be accomplished through legislative proposal, constitutional convention proposal, constitutional commission proposal, and the initiative in states...

...This book argues that “disunion” was once the most provocative and potent word in the political vocabulary of Americans. From the time of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 up to the Civil War, disunion conjured up the most profound anxieties of Americans as they considered the fate...

...This chapter aims to briefly summarize the historical events between American independence in 1776 and the Constitutional Convention in 1787 that gave rise to Article II in order to understand the construction which presidents from Washington to Bush have given to Article II over the entire history...

... and supporting Rees in his desire for a security policy which moved away from detention without trial and placed greater emphasis on the police. Rees also declared his plan for a constitutional convention in which politicians in Northern Ireland would be given the task of seeking an agreement without imposition...

...: the refusal of the 1787 Constitutional Convention to specify who within the new government would have final authority to decide constitutional disputes. Of course, it could be argued that the true origins of the crisis lie a century before that, in an “unthinking decision”: colonial planters' switch from...

...This chapter talks about the document which in retrospect became known as the Constitutional Convention. In January 1786, the Virginia assembly issued an invitation to a conference in Annapolis, Maryland, to take into consideration the trade of the states and consider the possibility of giving...

... Hamilton by election 1967 Kilbrandon Commission Westminster rule Scottish Grand Committee Scottish Office Constitutional Convention Covenant devolution Glasgow University Student Nationalist Association home rule National Party of Scotland Scots National League Scottish Covenant Scottish Home...

...This chapter introduces the perfect storm convergence of executive power and partisan aspiration that have produced the current predicament. When the Constitutional Convention adjourned in September, 1787, James Madison made a fateful choice. Madison is generally credited as the lead architect...

... administration in New York is highly decentralized. Republicans have pressed for greater safeguards against fraud while Democrats have promoted greater access to the ballot. The 1894 constitutional convention provided Republicans the chance to write reforms into the state constitution. The Republicans' electoral...

... of Confederation, and as governor. As a delegate to the federal Constitutional Convention, Spaight made one highly significant procedural motion: to permit a delegate to request reconsideration of a previously decided issue. A Federalist and a conservative, Spaight believed in the rule of elite, and in his mind...