Sentences with phrase «elected representatives of the people»

As elected representatives of the people, though, MPs shouldn't be saying anything that they wouldn't be comfortable with the public hearing.

One significant source of such costs is the democratic loss that occurs, most obviously, when courts invalidate legislation enacted by elected representatives of the people, and perhaps also when they invalidate decisions made by administrators whom these elected representatives entrusted with the making of such decisions — though whether judicial review of administrative action really undemocratic is debatable.

WHEREAS, the individual members of the Utah State Board of Education studied the proposed Common Core State Standards according to their fiduciary duty of care, and in their capacities as duly elected representatives of the people; and

His penchant for engaging the legislators on unnecessary outbursts over flimsy and insubstantial issues are uncalled for, considering that they are also elected representatives of the people.

Note that he does not say the democratically elected representatives of the people, or the voters.

Justice Rothstein's paeans to democracy mask the fact that the fees are imposed by the rules of court, not by legislation actually enacted by elected representatives of the people.

The concept of judicial dialogue is particularly important in Canada, where judges are not elected to their offices, maintain broad independence for their actions, and are empowered to strike down laws «made by the duly elected representatives of the people.»

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.

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 primarly distinguishes «Shariah Law» from laws actually in place in any muslim country today is WHO (i.e. the elected representatives of the people or the religious priesthood) defines the law.

I was on the Metropolitan Police's Domestic Extremist database for more than ten years, when I was both an elected representative of the people of London and on the Metropolitan Police Authority which exists to scrutinise them.

In a republic, legislators are the elected representatives of the people who are a counterweight to the perogatives of a stronger chief executive.

The privilege of serving here as an elected representative of the people is a great honor and one that I know all my colleagues hold sacred.

He said National Assembly members were the elected representatives of the people who can handle agitations for restructuring and other constitutional changes.

«There is no charge, no trial and no verdict, and neither is there any impediment to the commissioner carrying out her duties as an elected representative of the people of Devon and Cornwall.»

«It's unfortunate that she goes against the will of nine people who are elected representatives of the people,» Hogan said.

His unlikely return as an elected representative of the people has seen a decidedly hostile reaction online.

Gone is the age - old process where superintendents recommend names and the Board of Education, as the elected representatives of the people, makes the final decision.

Such decisions should be opened — debated openly; such decisions should be made by the elected representatives of the people they affect.

Such decisions should be debated openly and made by the elected representatives of the people they affect.

In addition, the President will emphasize the importance of decisions on climate change regulation being openly debated and made by the elected representatives of the people rather than unelected regulators and judges.