Sentences with phrase «between federal powers»

This case also brings up an interesting example of the differences between federal powers and state powers.

Not exact matches

A good example of the Tenth Amendment dividing powers between the states and federal government is the legal drinking age.

Amazon is, as Brian Ferguson writes in The Atlantic, exploiting an «advantage of the American system,» the division of power between states and the federal government.

The short answer is that it can't, and that's why the Constitution sets out a division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

Was it not a struggle between those who saw slavery as tyrannical and those who saw the power of the federal government to interfere with the states as tyrannical?

It is this amendment that tilted the balance of power between the States and Federal Government to the Federal Government.

You have a national government and state governments, a federal system that divides national powers between the states and the «federal» government.

The Constitution creates a government with three branches of government and it divides the power between federal and state governments.

The USA was designed as a Constitutional Republic, with checks - and - balances between the branches of the federal government, and also division of power between federal state and local governments.

«These elements are trying to create unnecessary bad blood between the Federal Government, the Nigerian Army and the Kaduna State Government as a last resort to remain relevant in the minds of Nigerians and to impress the foreign powers that are bankrolling them.

The agreement is the result of the completion of a 10 - year review of a settlement agreement between the two entities for the 2003 federal relicensing of the St. Lawrence - FDR Power Project.

In the US, an artificial country in the sense that the balance between state and federal powers could be finely balanced, the end result was a country with a weakened central power.

The governor explained that Nigeria's present political structure was seriously affecting the efficiency of both State and Local governments, submitting that for States to give optimal service to their citizens, the principle of inclusion as being practiced in Lagos where anybody irrespective of race or creed can rise to the pinnacle of their chosen career, first needs to be applied to the division of power between the Federal and State governments.

We can correct this imbalance by reallocating power and responsibilities between the States and Federal government by amending the list of exclusive and concurrent powers and duties of these governments to reflect current realities in the nation.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which normally would help pay for storm recovery, warned that it might refuse to cover any costs if the contract between Whitefish Energy and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, known as Prepa, was found to be improper.

Mr. Percoco's wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, is also listed on the Jcope filings as earning between $ 75,000 and $ 100,000 from Chris Pitts L.L.C., which appears to be related to a Democratic operative in Connecticut who has worked for Competitive Power Ventures, one of the entities being investigated by federal authorities.

The study is based on a unique empirical setting, in which a power plant located on the border between two states has polluted the downwind state for years with its pollution spillovers scientifically proven by the downwind state and also by the federal government.

The federal government is funding a unique collaboration between the Kennedy and Jasper labs aimed at maintaining the regenerative power of adult stem cells.

The act required every participating state to designate or create a state - level body that would act as a liaison between the federal board and local districts; it thereby augmented the power of state governments at a time when they were beginning to expand their oversight of local schools in new ways.

Even though, as we all know, we have three levels of government in the USA — federal, state, and local, each with the power to tax and to make laws of its own — federalism in this country refers not to a balance between the federal government and local units (or local and state units) but only to a balance between the federal government and state governments.

This means «regulations, legislative comments or proposed legislation, and other policy statements or actions that have substantial direct effects on one or more Indian tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal Government and Indian tribes.»

Between 2009 and 2011, American Electric power spent $ 579,000 on federal campaign contributions.

Under Trump, the gap between what was promised and what will be achieved has widened as the federal government seeks to revoke the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, to roll back limits on the emission of the potent greenhouse gas methane and to reverse energy - efficiency policies.

Even so, an estimated 9 gigawatts of new coal power — about 15 average - sized plants — are expected to come online between now and 2040, the federal government reports, which is why the new rules are needed, environmentalists say.

Even if that is the case, any decision on jurisdiction will have wide - ranging implications for the power sector, which has been caught in the balance between federal and state - level policy and regulation.

Instead there are almost daily skirmishes between federal government, state governments, opposition and civil society about who should participate in a so called «coal commission» tasked with deciding how and when Germany will end coal power production.

Under the agreement between the companies, Hein will provide its HeinOnline subscribers with access to federal and state case law via inline hyperlinks powered by Fastcase.

The course as I remember it, did not include any mention of trade or civil rights but was limited to the division of powers between the Federal Government and the provinces.

Read our Q2 Torys Quarterly article on this and other issues provoking tensions between federal and provincial powers.

We say this because the division of powers part of the judgement (commencing at para 98) is full of all sorts of references to two levels of government (see e.g. para 141) and similar comments about «interlocking federal and provincial schemes» that make it abundantly clear that this Court has given no thought to the space within which indigenous laws may operate within the modern constitutional order (for recognition that the law making authority of aboriginal peoples pre-dated the Crown's acquisition of sovereignty, was not extinguished by that acquisition of sovereignty and was not impaired by the division of legislative powers between the federal and provincial governments in 1982 see Campbell v British Columbia (2000), 189 DLR (4th) 333 (BCSC) and Justice Deschamps in Beckman v Little Salmon / Carmacks First Nation, [2010] 3 SCR 103 at para 97).

He argued that a division of powers between federal and provincial governments had already been established and that, in essence, the Council of Ministers would have authority over matters of provincial jurisdiction.

On Monday an agreement was concluded between the Teslin Tlingit First Nation, the federal government, and the government of Yukon, according the First Nation the power to pass certain laws and to administer justice on its lands.

Therefore, we Canadian civil society organizations, who work for public welfare, call on our federal government to revive the powers of the Bank of Canada to provide funding to all levels of government in Canada, largely with interest - free loans, as was done between 1938 and 1974 with very low inflation, enabling our nation to break out of the Great Depression, to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities during World War II, and to prosper while building our infrastructure and highly valued social programs during some thirty post-war years.

is not competing provincial and federal powers, but rather tension between the right of the Aboriginal title holders to use their land as they choose and the province which seeks to regulate it, like all other land in the province.»

The Court of Appeal characterized this appeal as «a question about jurisdiction involving the constitutional division of powers between the federal and provincial governments, sometimes termed inter-jurisdictional immunity, as well as the doctrine of paramountcy.»

It became the basis for differentiating, for division of powers purposes, between the permissible scope of provincial and federal legislative competence as well as meeting the minimum fault requirements for crimes under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (O'Grady v. Sparling, [1960] S.C.R. 804; Mann v.

OSHA regulations are set by the federal government, which gets its regulatory power via an interaction between politics, Congress, and the Commerce Clause: OSHA regulations don't apply to your neighborhood.

To return to prof. Peters» example, the rules that divide power between federal and state or provincial legislatures impose duties on legislators not to act in certain ways (i.e. not to legislate ultra vires).

It will also do so if courts blur the lines between federal and state or provincial authority, making it more difficult for citizens to know what government is responsible for what law or social programme, or give private unaccountable actors, such as civil servants» unions, power to influence public affairs.

[r] ules about who makes law and how (e.g., bicameralism in Congress, the division of power between the federal and state governments) are examples of secondary rules; so are rules about whether and to what extent the government can regulate areas of conduct like speech and religion.

The court placed a lot of emphasis on the St. Catherines Milling, which specifically said that treaty commissioners could not alter the division of powers or allocation of responsibilities between the federal and provincial governments.

The jurisdictional split in powers between the federal government and provincial governments may make it too complex to execute.

A month after the Charlottetown Conference (aforementioned in yesterday's letter, click here to review yesterday's post), the existing provinces all met at the Quebec Conference to try and hash out a constitutional framework for the impending nation of Canada.1 This was where federalism, or the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments, became a focal point of discussion.

This installment also focuses on the relationship between federal and state courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court's power to review state court decisions, the Erie doctrine's restriction on the common lawmaking powers of federal courts, and the parameters of federal question jurisdiction.

The context in which the interaction between the parties is to occur clearly goes beyond that of «negotiation and mediation pursuant to a «special» process provided under the Act», (57) to a process whereby the State itself appears to usurp the Federal Court's judicial power under s 94A, that is, that the State can make a judgment on whether the claimants have established the elements of s 225.

the claims resolution process, including the powers of the National Native Title Tribunal (the NNTT or the Tribunal), the Federal Court of Australia, and the relationship between the two

In effect, the federal system of government in the US is based on three sovereign entities, the federal government, the states and the Indian Tribes, and US federalism reflects the ordered sharing of power between these distinct sovereign entities.

The relationship between the two institutions will be affected by the enhanced powers given to the tribunal and the changes to the Federal Court powers.

The 1867 division of political powers between the then provinces and the now federal government belongs back in 1867.