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JEREMY CORBYN’S DYSFUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure at the helm of the Labour Party w... more JEREMY CORBYN’S DYSFUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure at the helm of the Labour Party was exceptional for number of reasons. He was the first Labour leader elected directly by party members and supporters. Leftwing rebel, Corbyn had not spent a single day in frontbenches during his more than three decades long parliamentary career, until he took the top spot. Elected against the wishes of party establishment, he found himself in constant opposition with the parliamentary party. This unresolvable conflict both defined and doomed his leadership. This article looks at Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as a leader of the Labour Party as an example of a dysfunctional leadership. It tries to explain how and why it became leadership that was both ineffective and detrimental to the party
Under Article V, Congress shall call a convention on the application of two-thirds of state legis... more Under Article V, Congress shall call a convention on the application of two-thirds of state legislatures. Convention of states has never been called, despite a number of attempts. An Article V convention has become a specific form of constitutional initiative at the federal level. It serves primarily as a convenient way to pressure Congress to propose an amendment and not to actually make federal legislature call a convention. Such a use of an Article V convention has not been very effective and only rarely proved to be successful.
Revista de Drept Constituțional
Under Article V of the United States Constitution Congress is required to call a convention to pr... more Under Article V of the United States Constitution Congress is required to call a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution whenever two thirds of states legislatures so apply. The exact nature and extent of Congress's authority granted by this provision of the Constitution are, however, unclear. The most contentious questions are whether Article V gives Congress legislative authority to establish rules governing the convention of states process; whether they can scrutinize states' applications and make final decisions regarding their validity, and to what extent the Constitution authorizes federal legislature to control organization of a convention of states and its deliberations. There is no ready answer to neither of these questions, yet they need to be addressed to properly establish what does the obligation to call a convention of states put upon Congress by the Constitution actually entail. The prospect of such a convention may still be dim, still in recent years the alternative route to amend the Constitution has certainly attracted new attention. The extent of Congress's authority under Article V has never been firmly established. In this article we argue that congressional powers regarding convention of states process are strictly limited. To support this conclusion we rely on textual, historical, and structural arguments.
By constitutional convention the Queen and her representatives, the governor-generals, can act on... more By constitutional convention the Queen and her representatives, the governor-generals, can act only on the advice of their respective responsible ministers. Therefore all of the powers that are in their possession, whether their source is derived from prerogative or the constitution, are exercised not personally by them but through cabinet ministers. However, in certain extraordinary circumstances the Crown is constitutionally entitled to act on its own initiative, without or - better still - contrary to the advice that it receives. Those powers that can be exercised personally by the Queen are commonly referred to as reserve powers, sometimes also as personal prerogatives. The most important of them are the power to appoint and dismiss a prime minister and to dissolve parliament. Reserve powers also include the right to refuse royal sanction, the appointment of peers, judges or senators, as well as summoning and proroguing parliament. The scope of reserve powers differ according to...
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