Sentences with phrase «constitutional powers»

The Bill will be based on a combination of Commonwealth constitutional powers and a referral of certain powers from the Basin States to the Commonwealth.

The Commission supports and commends the relevant state governments» and the ACT government's progress in referring constitutional powers to the Commonwealth, enabling water resources in the Murray - Darling Basin to be managed in the national interest, optimising environmental, economic and social outcomes.

What I would like to hear more about from you are the mechanisms the municipality could use to make it impracticable to host the G20 downtown, without the need for greater constitutional powers for municipalities.

When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter...

While provinces exercise constitutional powers in their own right, the territories exercise delegated powers under the authority of the Parliament of Canada.

The appeal court decided the city did not overstep its constitutional powers.

Even if FISA was construed narrowly to preclude Stellar Wind, the memo argues it would be unconstitutional as an impermissible infringement on the President's constitutional powers as Commander - in - Chief,

Written by former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, now with Bancroft, this study lays out the constitutional powers of the states to enact legal reforms.

That said, all is not entirely quiet on the administration front: a variety of guidance and direction has been issued and «mandatory» draft orders have been proposed by Sir James Munby President of the Family Division (whose main job is not as an administrator but as a judge: each should be clearly defined separate constitutional powers).

For a president who has been willing to stretch his other constitutional powers to the limit and beyond, Bush has proved strangely hesitant to exercise the one power that is unquestionably his alone....

Recognizing the critical importance of judicial tenure, both in substance and appearance, Congress provided special protections for administrative law judges, even as it afforded due deference to the constitutional powers of executive agencies to render final agency decisions.

If they really want to help the Congress needs to first re-define what is considered as private and public, then they will regain their Constitutional powers to set limitations on interest rates permantly.

Plaintiffs alleged in their lawsuit that HB7069 took away some of the constitutional powers to make decisions about public schools and undermined local control of public schools.

Itasca Small, a long - time supporter and activist for states rights; local control over education and stopping Common Core; and defending our State Superintendent's constitutional powers over education in our state; is running for State Senator against Bob Worsley (R - LD25 Mesa).

Joseph D. Carrabino, president of the board, said in a statement that the court needed to clarify the board's statutory and constitutional powers to «allow it to effect...

Former petroleum minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison - mature, has blasted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for displaying lack of understanding of the constitutional powers of a Nigerian President in managing funds meant for security / intelligence agencies.

In the exercise of its constitutional powers, at the same meeting, the council had suspended Justice Akanbi from office before the president approved his compulsory retirement.

These three US Senate candidates are conservatives, which means they respect the three branches of government and follow the constitutional powers more closely.

The Communists wanted an assembly with full constitutional powers and no time limit, whereas de Gaulle, the Socialists and the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) advocated one with a term limited to only seven months, after which the draft constitution would be submitted for another referendum.

The Auditor - General will now be forced to use its constitutional powers of Disallowance and Surcharge in the recovery of misappropriated public funds.

For better to worse, Duffy allegedly adds geographical balance to the Cuomo ticket and to strip him of his constitutional powers is a slap in the face of the people in upstate New York.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said he lacked the constitutional powers to establish cattle colonies.

The presidency on Saturday said President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the constitutional powers to create cattle colonies in any part of the country under the Land Use...

«The current Attorney General of Rivers State has in the exercise of the same constitutional powers by which the nolle prosequi was entered commenced proceedings against Chidi Lloyd.

«We would like to take this opportunity to thank the President, John Mahama for graciously exercising his constitutional powers under Article 72 in our favour in remitting the remaining custodial sentence imposed on us recently,» Mugabe said.

«The NMC says it doesn't have the constitutional powers to punish and so on, but it is our considered view that the NMC could really assert itself, even with the little constitutional powers it has,» said Mr Braimah.

The Senate yesterday invoked its Constitutional powers to compel the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) to appear before it today.

It's literally the constitutional powers of the governor.»

A statement signed and released on Monday, 22 August by Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah said: «The President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, has, in consultation with the Council of State and in exercise of his constitutional powers under Article 72 of the Constitution, remitted the remainder of the prison sentence imposed on three persons: Salifu Maase (alias Mugabe), Alistair Nelson, and Ako Gunn, who were sentenced to four months» imprisonment and a fine of GHS10, 000.00 each for contempt of court.

It has even been argued that along with the decline in royal power should come the right to vote: if our new King lacks special constitutional powers, why shouldn't he at least enjoy the ordinary constitutional power the rest of us exercise?

«Instead of seizing his Constitutional powers as Governor to solve New York's growing immigration problem, David Paterson is playing ethnic politics at its worst,» Paladino said in a press release.

However, Erdoğan has shown that he is eager to go beyond his constitutional powers on several occassions.

«We realize Senate Democrats would like to reduce this President's constitutional powers,» the White House official said.

«SERAP hopes that you will exercise your constitutional powers to promote transparency and accountability and reduce corruption in Nigeria.

Instead, the Democrats stripped the majority leader post of all constitutional powers and privileges, and provided the president — Malcolm Smith — with the right to appoint the majority leader.

The South fired first, on Fort Sumter, and Lincoln took immediate action under his constitutional powers as president and military commander in chief.

The contra supply operation circumvented and denied Congress its two most important constitutional powers: the authority to declare war and the power to withhold or appropriate funds.

Trade agreements like NAFTA fall squarely within the constitutional powers of Congress under the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution.

Instead of being inspired by his father and using federal constitutional powers to promote environmental protection, Justin Trudeau has adopted the sunny ways approach — decentralized federalism.

Macron's enthusiastic persona and his image as a «winner» — having been elected with a 66 percent majority, followed by a landslide victory in parliamentary elections giving him full constitutional powers — has charmed and impressed Donald Trump.

It's also about ensuring provincial constitutional powers aren't eroded by the decision.

The other is the broader question of the court's interpretation of constitutional powers of the federal and provincial governments.

Rajoy said Madrid could use its constitutional powers to suspend Catalonia's autonomy and prevent it from declaring independence.

He believes that the Congress has the constitutional power to extend the existing conflicts of interest law to cover the President, and he thinks Congress should try to do so.

The federal government is in danger of losing the clear support of a key provincial ally in its bid to have the Supreme Court of Canada rule that Ottawa has the constitutional power to establish a national securities regulator.

The president «clearly has the constitutional power to execute pardons» without conferring with the Office of the Pardon Attorney, Sessions said.»

But even if that were the case, and here the evidence suggests the opposite (Saskatchewan, for example, remains unmoved by Alberta's leadership), the federal government's ample constitutional power is a far simpler means of solving this collective action problem.

While former CIA Director William Colby was publicly taking the line that the President has constitutional power to conduct covert operations, Colby himself had approved an internal CIA study which found that, prior to the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act, there were no legal or constitutional grounds for covert action without the advance approval of Congress.

To the extent that pesuadables (especially fairly low information persuadables), feel in - their - bones that the government doesn't have the constitutional power power to tell them to buy health insurance, the endorsement of the Supreme Court is going to allay some of their concerns.

Skepticism is important sometimes, but this sort of constitutional power play is rarely employed even in those cases, such as nonestablishment cases, where the purpose of a policy is important to its constitutionality.