Sentences with phrase «as federalists»

He'll also have a tricky balancing act to pull off as a federalist leader with a lot of former Bloc supporters.

Not exact matches

Italy's federalist and Eurosceptic Lega Nord and Noi con Salvini are enjoying rapidly growing support as well.

Her own assessment of the Cold War was to see the anticommunist crusade as an end in itself embedded in McCarthyism, which was an indicator of the growth of populist lawlessness and a breakdown of the federalist balance of powers.

And Amar and others such as his colleague Bruce Ackerman (leaders of what Wills terms the «Yale school of nullification») have been arguing that the Federalists were not altogether successful, leaving room in our constitutional government for exceptional moments of popular intervention on behalf of a fundamental reorientation of American politics.

In the event president and Congress agree, it's really unclear that THE FEDERALIST thought of the Court as an effective or even appropriate counterweight.

One of the great merits of Banning's meticulous work is to show the divisions that existed among Federalists even as they came together in the movement for a new Constitution.

The least we can say is that JUDICIAL REVIEW as a tool for containing the relatively tame national legislature described in FEDERALIST 10 is not a prominent theme in THE FEDERALIST.

If it can be shown, after all, that the founding Federalists were opposed to any government that promoted a particular conception of the good life, might we not then say that Laurence Tribe's and Eleanor Smeal's defense of «reproductive freedom» as a constitutional right is consistent with the principles of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay?

Bork, Arthur contends, is far afield precisely because he grounds his jurisprudence in a moral skepticism and positivism that denies «claims of natural rights» as discovered, for example, in «Jefferson's ringing endorsement of self - evident rights in the Declaration of Independence and the Federalists» insistence on separation of powers and the adoption of the Bill of Rights.»

Thus, the «Federalists» «anti-majoritarian bias, and their commitment to neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life, lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court whose commitment to such vague notions as «libertarian dignity under law» makes it the supreme umpire in American life.

Such a contrast was stated most vigorously by the early Federalists but was in some form or other accepted by Jeffersonian Democrats as well.

Blair's latest intervention came as David Cameron faced criticism for having attacked the centre - left's preferred candidate Jean - Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg federalist.

If the two George W. Bush replacements in the minority vote as their predecessors did, Clarence Thomas votes the same, and the two Trump - appointed replacements vote in line with the federalist view, that would give a majority in the other direction.

Thus, it's hardly surprising that the federalist option has been rediscovered as a way to solve the problems of the «State of Autonomies».

And the distillation of the whole campaign into a personal contest between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling has framed the choice as one between the SNP's catch - all brand of civic nationalism and a Unionism with New Labour characteristics — at the expense of putting into play the ideological diversity on both sides, from the environmentalist republican nationalism of the Scottish Socialists and Greens, to the federalist vision of the Liberal Democrats, and the cautious sovereigntism of the Conservatives.

Your answer is presumably that we are allied with federalists with whom we we fundementally disagree as do the majority of the British people.

Speaking ahead of a rally in Edinburgh, he described Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond as a «fanatical EU federalist» and challenged him to debate the meaning of «independence» with him ahead of the Scottish referendum in September.

He said he was present at a vote in which it was decided «raving federalist» Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean - Claude Juncker should be the first name discussed as the new European Commission president.

Jean - Claude Juncker, an EU veteran with federalist ambitions, had arrived in Brussels signalling he wanted immediate official backing to succeed Jose Manuel Barroso as European Commission president later this year.

Attorney General Pruitt's federalist approach to regulation presents the states as partners in the effort to ensure that our air and water are clean.

But that won't make Republican lawmakers as happy as you might think, because of the GOP's longstanding internal conflict between pursuing reform from Washington and abiding by its federalist, small - government principles.

Muhlenberg was a «low» Federalist, not as all - out for central power as the Hamiltonian Federalists, but loyal to President Washington.

In what essentially amounts to a federalist debate, attempts at national uniformity by entities such as the American Bar Association are met with resistance by the real owners of power, those who regulate all of our law licenses at the state level.