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the state of being paramount

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The other uncontroversial feature of Canadian federalism is federal paramountcy: the requirement that valid provincial legislation operate compatibly with valid federal legislation, neither conflicting in operation with nor frustrating the purpose underlying the federal law.
Principle 3: In narrowly defined circumstances, the doctrines of interjurisdictional immunity and paramountcy may apply to limit the application or impact, respectively, of otherwise valid provincial legislation.
(4.) See also UKNA/CAB/24/173 - 'Report of the East Africa Commission 1925', and UKNA/CAB/ 24/187 - 'Future Policy in Regard to Eastern Africa' - for the official perspective on reconciling alienations of land for white settlement with the doctrine of native paramountcy, as well as the virtues of both sedentarization and wage labour for advancing the civilizing process.
With the lapse of paramountcy and the termination of treaties with all princely states, these areas would have automatically returned to Kalat State.
The decisions traverse various issues, including the paramountcy of testamentary freedom in the history of succession law, the extent to which public policy considerations may curtail that freedom of testation, principles in the construction of wills, and the admissibility of extrinsic evidence in succession matters.
On the one hand, these legal instruments are imposed externally to the autonomously created law which is the essential characteristic of Legalism but, on the other hand, they have acknowledged paramountcy.
The members recognised that there is an urgent need to understand the impact of this decision and the wider ramifications for BCCI in detail, so as to uphold the paramountcy of the game in our country.
There exists, therefore, no Hmong king in French Indochina but "only clan leaders who vie for outside legitimation." The competition among the Hmong for outside legitimation further resulted in two types of chiefs: "the prophet or messianic leader who rejects the state and proclaims the Mandate of Heaven; and the secular political broker who, with state backing, achieves paramountcy as the supreme chief or ethnic representatives of the Hmong" (12).
Indeed, the range of legislative action of both Parliament and legislatures has generally been increased not by subtracting legislative powers from one to give to the other, but by gradually allowing more overlapping legislation, by limiting the use of the "interjurisdictional immunity" doctrine, (16) and by adopting a narrow definition of the incompatibility test triggering the federal paramountcy rule.
Or is the resiliency of the greenback reflective of forces assuring its paramountcy going forward?
In Bahaa Valad's (Rumi's Father) words, fear and hope are of paramountcy, too.
She sketched for him 'the probable future landscape of the society of states as it emerges from the twilight of the US paramountcy'.