Sentences with phrase «exercise as the legislature»

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Taking economic development from under the thumb of the executive and shifting some oversight authority to the legislature strikes me as an exercise in futility.

As America has suffered through mass shooting after mass shooting, it often seems there is an unbridgeable chasm between activists calling for reforms and gun rights purists who have worked to redefine the meaning of the Second Amendment through the courts and exercise outsize influence on legislatures.

The Brennan Center supports early voting as a crucial way to help more New Yorkers exercise their right to vote, and urges the New York State legislature to include early voting in the state budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Teachers unions, who have the money and the membership to exercise considerable clout in many state legislatures, defend tenure, seniority and other job protections as simply guaranteeing due process.

As in New Hampshire, Montana's legislature is entirely controlled by Republicans, but Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock is a Common Core supporter who could exercise his veto power.

Thus, Member States remain free to impose restrictions on air transport services between the EU Member States and third countries insofar as the EU legislature has not exercised its competences to liberalize those services.

The goal of the statutory interpretation exercise is to decipher the intention of the legislature as to the meaning and effect of the words in question.

In short, it appears to be risky to assert that, by means of a provision such as Article 273 of Directive 2006/112, the legislature was anticipating the transfer of all the constitutional guarantees governing the exercise of the Member States» power to impose penalties — including the collection of VAT — from the Member States to the Union.

The BC experience raise the obvious problem that it's the police — not the legislature — which is making criminal law policy (as opposed to exercising their discretion on a case - by - case basis).

This exercise reflects the limited role of the courts in interpreting the law as compared to the expansive powers of the legislature in declaring the law.

More broadly, this ruling will be studied closely by constitutional lawyers as it addresses a number of central issues, including the interplay between the Government's executive powers in international law and legislative sovereignty, the powers of the Court to supervise the exercise of prerogative powers particularly where existing law or rights are affected, and the fundamentally political, not legal, nature of the Sewel Convention on consultation of devolved legislatures.

From the best information, however, which I have been able to collect on this subject, it appears that the legislature, or General Court of Connecticut, originally possessed and exercised all legislative, executive, and judicial authority, and that from time to time it distributed the two latter in such manner as it thought proper, but without parting with the general superintending power or the right of exercising the same whenever it should judge it expedient.