Sentences with phrase «constitutional authority over»

It's important to think hard about states, which have constitutional authority over K - 12 and provide most of the money, but historically have done little to drive reform efforts.

The association contends that under the federal 1995 District of Columbia School Reform Act (SRA), which was passed under Congress's constitutional authority over the district, charter schools are entitled to equal per - pupil spending.

Here, Cuomo has made real progress — likely because of the governor's dominant constitutional authority over fiscal affairs.

Not exact matches

Spain's constitutional crisis seems set to rumble on, as the central government looks to re-assert its authority over Catalonia.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

The suit concludes that a «dispute exists» over the governor's constitutional authority to force the Legislature to pass non-revenue items in a revenue bill and this «requires a judicial determination of the score of non-apportionment or non-revenue lanuague in Article VII bills.»

«Last year I vetoed a similar bill that would authorize to have control over local annexation petitions that did not impact a county's boundaries because it would have directly contravened the constitutional prohibitions on a county's authority,» Cuomo wrote.

In 2007, then Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated, during a House of Commons debate on constitutional reform, that he believed that the House of Commons should have more authority over the selection of «public officials whose role it is to protect the public's rights and interests, and for whom there is not currently independent scrutiny.

Lawmakers also turned aside an effort to pass a constitutional amendment that would have stripped the court of its authority over school finance and left all school funding decisions to the Legislature and governor.

The GSBA has a long standing legislative position supporting,» the constitutional authority vesting exclusive control over public schools to local boards of education as the level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents of the children being educated.

They have no authority over that, it is a constitutional right.

Law dictionaries made by private corporations don't have authority over states or their courts, which ultimately derive their power from their constitutions and legislation made by their constitutional legislatures and the people's support of them.

If the Supreme Court were to act thus it would be asserting an authority over Parliament that is flatly ruled out by our constitutional tradition: an assertion of judicial supremacy of this kind would be a coup not a judgment.

That an interpretation of «telephonic» should take notice of the limits imposed on the federal government by virtue of our constitutional division of powers, that is that the Act can only apply to matters over which the federal government has legislative authority, is further supported by the specific reference in s. 13 (1) to communication «by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament».

Their reaction can be a refusal to give effect to an act of the IO, following a finding that the act was outside the scope of authority of the IO -LSB-...] or incompatible with another set of norms, be it international norms (such as a jus cogens norm or a human rights norm) or a norm of the domestic legal order that has precedence over the act of the IO (such as the practice of the German constitutional court in the cases involving judgments of The ECJ and the EctHR).»

And he referenced The Commission on Constitutional Revisions» proceedings to conclude that Article IX, § 2 language intentionally «elevated the Commission's authority over electric rates from a power merely delegated by the General Assembly to one with a direct constitutional foundation Constitutional Revisions» proceedings to conclude that Article IX, § 2 language intentionally «elevated the Commission's authority over electric rates from a power merely delegated by the General Assembly to one with a direct constitutional foundation constitutional foundation -LSB-.]»