| I turn now to the constitution and conduct of the plebiscite. The constitution provides for preselection plebiscites. |
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| From then on legislation was formulated more and more by means of plebiscites. |
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| Referendums on the Constitution should relate to its contents, and not turn into anti-governmental plebiscites. |
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| Referendums and plebiscites still carry a whiff of Weimar and of Hitler's exploitation of public emotion. |
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| For years referenda were discredited in the public mind by plebiscites organized by totalitarian governments which inevitably produced a gratifying majority. |
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| The federal republic has never had one, although its constitution allows for plebiscites. |
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| The plebiscites in France and the Netherlands were, of course, quietly turned on their heads again, as it were. |
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| So, yes, I do see that enlargement, in some countries, entails plebiscites, and so we have no idea whether ratification will eventually happen. |
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| These rules apply to communal decision-making by committees and plebiscites, where stated above. |
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| This office is responsible for all of the planning, coordination, reporting and monitoring of provincial legislative and municipal and rural community council elections and plebiscites. |
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| We hope that, through these internal procedures, we will be able to proceed to plebiscites in both countries, in order to put an end to the dispute with our brother country of Belize. |
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| The new Constitutional Treaty constitutes a major political challenge because it is the first time that a large number of member States have decided to organise plebiscites for the ratification of the Treaty. |
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| An arrangement that increases complexity and intensifies the difficulties of making the enlarged European Union work well would hardly be likely to attract understanding or support in either parliaments or plebiscites. |
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| Dalyell was a vocal opponent of Scottish devolution in the 1979 and 1997 plebiscites. |
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| It enables referenda and plebiscites and establishes environmental protection as a fundamental state principle. |
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| The Treaty of Versailles provided for plebiscites to determine the ownership of the region. |
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| All government authority is to be sanctioned by the will of the people, which expresses itself via elections and plebiscites. |
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| Originally interested in the idea of a looser confederation, the governments of Slovenia and Croatia decided instead to proceed with plebiscites on the question of independence. |
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| But plebiscites are funny things, and the question asked would matter. |
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| She wants to limit executive posts to a single five-year term, holding all elections in a single year, and to increase the use of referendums and plebiscites. |
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| Almost no country wants treaty change in the next year or two it would trigger plebiscites and would open the door to French and Italian demands for stronger social protections, thus making the EU even less Anglo-Saxon. |
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| I hope that the results of these plebiscites will be favourable. |
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| A number of plebiscites have actually been held in recent years, in most cases to determine whether the sale of alcoholic beverages should be prohibited in the municipality concerned. |
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| Community responses include protests and demonstrations, worker strikes, local plebiscites, and some belligerent acts such as destruction of property. |
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