Sentences with phrase «elected representatives do»

Some might argue that voters have as much ability to evaluate judges and coroners as elected representatives do.

He said, «Before the advent of this administration, there was no discipline anywhere; elected representatives do what they want with public funds.

Our elected representatives do not merely comply with, but obey, the Court's understanding of the constitutional order, and they have tendered obedience for fifty years.

Do his elected representatives do much more than give lip service to this looming dark cloud?

And what are our state elected representatives doing to prepare for the problems that will accompany whatever happens or doesn't happen in Washington?

Not exact matches

People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

The great issue outstanding thus concerns who will do the planning: elected representatives or un-elected financial managers?

NOTE: Service as an elected member of the United States Congress (a U.S. Senator or Representative) does not qualify.

And she doesn't think it's a problem that British Columbians don't even get to know who is paying that much money for one - on - one time with the most influential elected representative in the province.

Conservative Christians did claim some victories Tuesday night, including helping the GOP retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives and helping elect tea party favorite Ted Cruz as a U.S. senator from Texas.

In other traditions the practice of doing theology authoritatively is institutionalized in the powers of constitutionally legitimated representative denominational assemblies elected to govern the church.

Replace Boehner and McConnell with people who will do the job the GOP congressional representatives were elected to do — govern, for the people, * not * the party.

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

I don't know any Christians that are looking to establish a Theocracy, but I know a great many that are looking to elect someone who will represent their vote on important issues which, of course, is the point of a representative government.

Separation, but not «rejection» of religion from governmental decisions and policies is very important, and it doesn't mean one rejects God or their beliefs, even if they are an elected representative.

By filing a lawsuit to set aside the Mexico City policy on the basis of «international law» created outside the American political system, the CRLP has demonstrated that it firmly believes that «international law» (which has little if anything to do with the will of the American people or the representatives they elect to govern them) is nevertheless enforceable against the American people and, ultimately, the people of the world.

He told Premier: «I'm more of a mind that, if we're going to make changes, those changes be comprehensive changes which take in the opinion of the citizens of Northern Ireland and also their elected representatives; we've got to do that in a very careful way.»

The people's elected representatives in Congress don't, either.

In his assault on the U.S. Constitution, the Bush administration is really saying that it doesn't trust Congress, the elected representatives of the people, nor does it trust the people themselves.

Perhaps GOP voters finally elected representatives who will do in Washington what they say they'll do in the district.

Did the Justices not read into the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment a «right to freedom of contract» in whose name they frustrated the legislative will and usurped the constitutional authority of the elected representatives of the people?

What we object to is, first, the judicial manufacture of constitutional law to displace without constitutional warrant the duly enacted judgments of the people and their elected representatives, and, second, the idea of judicial supremacy that treats the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as impotent to do anything but bow down before unconstitutional exercises of judicial power, however blatant and destructive of the constitutional order.

I don't agree with lot's of things the goverment enacts, but the price of democracy is accepting what the democratically elected representatives enact.

In this context, the tragedy of Oliver North is that the opinions, thoughts and feelings of the people and their elected representatives concerning aid to the contras did not matter; what seemed to matter, in an unabashed exercise of unilateral power, was the provision of such aid, by whatever means, in the name of the national interest, patriotism, and fighting communism, by people who in their actions were claiming they knew what was best for the United States.

It really comes down to that classic question of whether we're electing representatives to do our bidding or to make their own independent decisions.

«When you fight a general election most people don't question the nature of the place you're sending your elected representatives too,» he continued.

In doing so, they will need to find a way of training their elected representatives more seriously.

But «parliament» does not just apply the Palace of Westminster — the devolved governments and local government too are «parliamentary» in form: that is they are made up of elected representatives who appoint an executive of some sort.

Our wonderful elected representatives that YOU, the readers, keep returning to office faithfully every 2 years have no intention of doing anything to advance the budget.

«He brought this to us as a legacy issue from his time in Albany as an elected official... We all came together as a delegation to get this done, but credit also goes to Collins as the New York representative of the committee of jurisdiction, Energy and Commerce.»

They can override the property tax cap if 60 percent of the elected representatives in a county vote to do so.

Harriet Harman, as elected representative of the party, did nothing to save it from certain defeat.

Others simply ignored it, as if sex workers don't deserve an explanation from their elected representatives.

Didn't Democrats enact an «assault weapons» ban in 1994 and didn't the gun rights crowd elect Republicans in droves that November and give the GOP the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years?

Do other appointed or non — freely elected state actors interfere with or prevent freely elected representatives from adopting and implementing legislation and making meaningful policy decisions?

Sadly it has never been a tradition in the Labour Party, but in some sections of the wider workers movement there did used to be the tradition of elected representatives taking up the wage of an average skilled worker and donating the rest to the party and wider labour movement.

Thirty years after they first won the right to elect MEPs, most European have little contact with their representatives and still do not know who they are, what they do or why they are important.

mvy, you make a great argument on how the constitution does not specify how electors are awarded, but you fail to mention that the constitution clearly states that only the House of Representatives member is elected by popular vote.

«I have been doing this before I was elected into the house of representatives and continue even in «suspension».

As local councils across the country worry about what could be record - low turnouts in tomorrow's elections, Cambridgeshire's elected representatives are aiming to do something about it.

Here they reply to a final selection of questions from ConservativeHome readers about how they would communicate with the grassroots, what to do about asset - rich wealthy associations, furthering the Conservative cause where the party has few elected representatives - and their principal goal if elected.

If Puerto Rico becomes a State, it will have the opportunity to elect 7 Members to the US House of Representatives and 2 United States Senators who will have the opportunity to represent them and fight for the State of Puerto Rico, as every other Member of Congress does the United States does for their State.

«If the aim is to ensure that laws affecting England alone have the consent of elected English representatives, there are many ways of doing so.»

«You have to continue to tell your elected representatives on the City Council and in the Assembly that New Yorkers don't want a tax on their carry - out bags,» Felder wrote, addressing his constituents.

And since smaller parties do not gain substantially under AV, as it makes getting a representative elected harder, it will not be them either.

AV hands some power to minorities but not in a direct accountable and democratic way; in an unaccountable and undemocratic way because these parties do not get more representatives elected (which are therefore in a position to be held to account) they just wield power as ginger groups whose second preferences are needed.

Though Henry is seen as having done a solid job in office, he was elected with just 43 percent of the vote in 2002 — thanks to a decidedly lackluster campaign by former representative Steve Largent (R) and a third - party candidate who attracted a number of GOP - leaning voters.

Either way, the lack of cooperation between the city's highest local elected official and its representative in the federal government certainly doesn't help the situation.

These are not the sorts of activities which elected representatives go in to politics to do.

Not only do we lose a seat in the House of Representatives but obviously we lose an Elector when it comes to electing the president.»