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"He wants to constitutionalize the de facto changes he has implemented."

Section 35 of the Constitution Act, which falls outside the Charter, does constitutionalize some aboriginal rights.

"A line must be drawn," Mr. Himmelfarb said, adding, "The alternative is to constitutionalize the law of public employment."

While section 25 is also the Charter section that deals most directly with Aboriginal peoples in Canada, it does not create or constitutionalize rights for them.

"There is no guarantee that the Biden bill will constitutionalize the Federal flag desecration statute," said Mr. Dole, a Kansas Republican.

Dr. Carhart is seeking to "constitutionalize infanticide," the Knights of Columbus tells the court, adding, "There is no constitutional right to kill a child during a live birth."

Historian Samuel Walker writes that the ACLU's "greatest impact on American life" was its role in persuading the Supreme Court to "constitutionalize" so many public controversies.

Both measures are sometimes confused with the Corwin Amendment, a proposal to amend the U. S. Constitution adopted by the 36th Congress , which attempted to constitutionalize slavery.

Trudeau spoke on television in October 1980, and announced his intention to constitutionalize a bill of rights that would include fundamental freedoms, democratic guarantees, freedom of movement, legal rights, equality and language rights.

Caught between the preaching of the Roman catholic clergy and appeals from protestants and liberal Roman catholics - including Dr FitzGerald - not to constitutionalize the issue, it would appear that many voters simply stayed away rather than vote against the proposal.

You have chosen to constitutionalise the market at a time when neo-liberalism is failing and, although you prefer peace, you have considered war possible, in these terrible times when the world is racked by wars and terrorism.

This is why the European People's Party will, through its members taking part in the Convention, acting in accordance with the mandate they received at the recent Estoril Congress, propose that the Convention should constitutionalise the basic principles of the Stability and Growth Pact.

This is reflected in the proposal to almost totally eliminate the unanimity rule, to make the codecision process the norm, to institutionalise the European political parties, to create a European electoral club, to integrate the Western European Union, to strengthen Europol, and, to constitutionalise the Treaties in a far-reaching way.