Sentences with phrase «appropriate federal powers»

Should the impasse not be resolved, the group asks the federal government to utilize all appropriate federal powers at their disposal, including expanding, if required, the Ocean Protection Plan to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline project proceeds without further delay.

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Congress exercises its «power of the purse» by appropriating and authorizing federal spending to carry out government activities.

We conclude, as have many other state courts, that our State Constitution, which serves ** 1275 only «to limit the sovereign power which inheres directly in the people and indirectly in their elected representatives,» Hunt at 365, 450 A. 2d 952, is a more appropriate vehicle to resolve questions concerning the rights of our citizens to travel the highways of our state without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constitution.

In addition, the Court noted that most states already established procedures by which defendants could request DNA testing, and that state legislatures, not federal courts, are the more appropriate fora for establishing rules by which defendants may «harness the power» of DNA testing.

A possible result of sustaining the claimed federal power would be that every business group which thought itself underprivileged might demand that a tax be laid on its vendors or vendees, the proceeds to be appropriated to the redress of its deficiency of income.

Sections 87 and 87A of the Native Title Act provide that the Federal Court may make consent determinations of native title where it is satisfied that to do so is within its power and is appropriate.

Sections 87 and 87A of the Native Title Act provide that the Federal Court may make a consent determination of native title when it is within its power and appropriate to do so.