Sentences with phrase «democratic exercise of power»

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Ironically, however, this concern is most acute whenever people exercise their democratic rights to challenge unjust applications of U.S. power.

But we must» slowly, prayerfully, and with great deliberation and serious debate» prepare ourselves for what the future seems likely to bring under a regime in which the courts have usurped the democratic process by reckless exercise of naked power.

Electoral autocracies, are non-democratic regimes that combine the existence of otherwise democratic institutions, like courts, parliaments, electoral authorities, with an autocratic exercise of power.

A majoritarian system like FPTP or AV is OK for choosing a government, so long as the power that the government can exercise is itself constrained by some form of democratic proportionality.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

What happened here was an exercise of the power behind the Ramapo Democratic Caucus.

Insisting that Governor Fayose only exercised his rights as a Nigerian, Olayinka asked, «where were the likes of Oyegun, Oni, Prof Itse Sagay and others when APC promoted crude politics and anti-Nigeria posturing to an unprecedented level when Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in power?»

In Secretary of State for the Home Department v JJ and others [2007] UKHL 45, [2007] All ER (D) 489 (Oct) Lord Bingham noted that the cases listed in Art 5 (1)(a)--(f) are «those in which any democratic state is likely to exercise a power to detain» (at [5]-RRB-.

As the Court held in paragraph 70 of its ruling of 14 June 2016: «Participation by the Parliament in the legislative process is the reflection, at Union level, of a fundamental democratic principle that the people should participate in the exercise of power through the intermediary of a representative assembly.»

«to exercise democratic scrutiny of the European Union's external action and, more specifically, to verify that its powers are respected precisely in consequence of the choice of legal basis for a decision concluding an agreement.»

«[t] hat rule is an expression of the democratic principles on which the European Union is founded» as well as «the reflection, at EU level, of the fundamental democratic principle that the people [sic] should participate in the exercise of power through the intermediary of a representative assembly» (para. 81).