Sentences with phrase «federal government power»

That is, due to the 1967 referendum removing the exclusion of Aboriginal people from s51 (xxvi) and thus granting federal governments the power to legislate regarding Indigenous people.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been a bold assertion of federal government power vis - à - vis the states.

Which part of the US constitution delegates the US federal government the power to establish the agency «Food and Drug Administration»?

These positions are extreme, and they are united by one thing: an embrace of unchecked federal government power.»

Some Mississippi lawmakers are again seeking constitutional changes to balance the federal budget and limit federal government power.

A Democratic U.S. House member introduced legislation that would give the federal government the power to recall defective firearms — a bill that may face long odds in Congress.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

No Child Left Behind, a federal education law introduced by George W. Bush in 2001, sets grades and standards, giving the federal government power to intervene in schools that rank poorly.

NCLB sets grades and standards, giving the federal government power to intervene in schools that rank poorly.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office has released a draft of legislation that would give the federal government power to speed the siting of transmission lines from remote zones to population centers.

The conservative group presented Inhofe with an award for standing up to political pressure to from both sides of the aisle to give the federal government the power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.

On February 24, 1942, an order - in - council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gave the federal government the power to intern all «persons of Japanese racial origin.»

The federal government had alleged violations of laws protecting civil rights and giving the federal government the power to review actions of law enforcement agencies with a pattern and practice of violating federal rights.

The states granted the federal government the power to regulate what is outlined in the federal Constitution, nothing more.

The 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act purports to give the federal government power to regulate things like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and surrogacy.

The 1944 referendum [72] The 1944 referendum sought to give the federal government power over a period of five years, to legislate on a wide variety of matters including the ability to legislate for Indigenous Australians.

Gutting Too - Big - To - Fail Bankruptcy Dodd - Frank gives the federal government the power to intervene when U.S. banks fail.