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Federalism at Work: Recent Developments in Public Trust Lawsuits to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions

In the address he delivered at the forum organised by the APC Committee on True Federalism at the International Event Centre, Akure on Thursday, the governor said the call by most Nigerians for true federalism was an indication that action must be taken urgently on the matter by stakeholders.

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Afterwards, at 2:30 p.m., Mr. Trump participates in a federalism event with governors and signs the Education Federalism Executfederalism event with governors and signs the Education Federalism ExecutFederalism Executive Order.

Like a first - rate intelligence, cooperative federalism is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

In the name of «a flexible approach tailored to the modern conception of federalism, which allows for some overlapping and favours a spirit of co?operation» (at para 93) and an approach that is consistent with the presumption of validity, Justice Gascon clearly favoured a more deferential and «delicate» approach to the assessment of pith and substance than did the majority.

advocates and big corporations are forced to accept a much more variegated legal and institutional environment, this would require that the Porchers» promotion of greater federalism (at all levels) and simpler living had won certain nationwide political victories.

We worshipped at Jefferson's «wall of separation» without acknowledging that the author of that famous phrase had drafted Virginia's «Bill for Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship and Sabbath Breakers,» or that the First Amendment was more a monument to federalism and to Protestant definitions of denominational autonomy than to religious freedom.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

Why does Pannenberg care so much about the WCC at a time when many others have consigned it — along with world federalism and other nice ideas — to the dustbin of history?

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

In L.A. the floral tributes — donated by a florist chain called Conroy's, which valued them at 20 bucks a throw — were specifically designed to correspond with the Games» so - called «festive federalism» official colors.

Yet, the proponents of federalism wish to decide taxes and budgets at the provincial level — a sure recipe for gridlock.

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, has written in an Al - Jazeera English Opinion piece that federalism is the only solution which would be in fitting with Libyan history.

Ferran Requejo is Professor of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he is director of the Research Group on Political Theory and has directed the Master programmes on Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality andPolitical Philosophy.

Adding to his stock denunciations of the plan, Cuomo at least alluded to a substantive argument against SALT deduction repeal on federalism grounds:

Kirk Stark, a professor of tax law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, said there is a slight possibility that a federalism argument against limiting the SALT deduction could gain traction.

Contrary to a postulate shared by several Europeanists, European federalism should not be different in nature from classical forms of federalism developed at the national level.

«Look at the number of Local Governments we have, if we run true federalism, we would not be having 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) and 20 Local Governments.

A convincing response to such centrifugal forces would be to rethink federalism by marrying it with sovereignty at the European level.

In fact, two different attitudes from Spanish nationalism should be distinguished in order to understand why a federal reform of the system in Spain appears to be hardly viable (territorial nationalism) or not viable at all (multinational federalism).

This is exactly what a renewal of European federalism creating an effective sovereignty at the European level is about.

If you look at the topic of today, it says Democracy and Its Inclusiveness, what we have today, we still have a long way to go, and that is to say that we are not practicing true federalism.

The elastic treatment of the commerce clause (coupled with the necessary and proper clause) is at odds with the 10th amendment (and perhaps federalism in general), and resolving these issues is well within the Supreme Court's role.

Also speaking, the Chairman PACAC, and a discussant at the lecture, Prof. Itse Sagay, said a return to true federalism would promote good governance in the country.

Speaking at the unveiling of the statue, located on Obafemi Awolowo Way by the Lagos Television (LTV) junction in Ikeja, governor Ambode said the party's position, as stipulated in its manifesto, seeks to amend the Nigeria Constitution with a view to devolving powers to States and local governments in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit and that the State supports the restructuring committee of the party going round the country to achieve same.

On the other hand, he romanticises territorial fissures that Gen. Yakubu Gowon started, as a «process of national integration and cohesion», which nevertheless folks elsewhere would lampoon as military era «unitary federalism», which Gowon started with 12 states but which, at the last count, was 36.

For the starry - eyed romantics thundering as if impunity and institutional subversion debuted with the military, Awo provided many examples of such in his book, The Travails of Democracy and the Rule of Law: CJN Adetokunbo Ademola letting off a cocktail jab at someone «who must oppose for opposing sake» (judiciary playing politics); PM Tafawa - Balewa who grumbled that Awo «called himself» Leader of Opposition (head of government subversive of the Constitution); and East Premier Michael Opara who snapped the Federal Government had powers to «abolish» misbehaving regional governments (executive outlawry against Nigerian federalism).

He revealed that the principle of true federalism with each state being allowed to develop at her own pace will be prioritized, while the «oneness and unity of Nigeria shall never be allowed to be challenged.»

He said, «May I appeal to the committee and, by extension, the party hierarchy to make sure that something concrete comes out of our present efforts at guaranteeing true federalism in Nigeria.

Some of the South - West governors and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, on Monday backed the call for the restructuring of Nigeria at the All Progressives Congress» South - West Zonal public hearing on true federalism held in Ibadan.

To find out, we asked Michael Doonan, PhD, an assistant professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., and author of American Federalism in Practice: The Formulation and Implementation of Contemporary Health Policy.

The multi-layer decision - making structure, while faithful in its way to American federalism, mainly serves nowadays to pull schools apart in response to funding and regulatory streams emanating from different levels of government, to foster bureaucracy, confusion, and tension and, maybe most importantly, to give every level a functional veto over reforms initiated at any other level.

At the same time, his story fits neatly into another master narrative, one about the decline of federalism in the United States.

«Even satisfactory national standards must extinguish federalism's creativity: At any time, it is more likely there will be half a dozen innovative governors than one creative federal education bureaucracy.

We have also seen competitive federalism work in education at the interstate level.

Second, when asked what content, skills, or knowledge are most important, teachers rank the guarantees of the Bill of Rights at the top, whereas concepts like federalism and the separation of powers and key periods like the American Founding fare less well.

We were naïve to think that we could thread the federalism needle — that because the standards had been developed by the governors and state superintendents, and because there was no federal mandate to adopt them, and because there was an escape valve (states could develop their own college - and career - ready standards), we would avoid the political problems that sunk previous attempts at «national standards.»

Most intriguing about Secretary Duncan — from my perspective at least — was his early embrace of the theory of «tight - loose» federalism.

There is a legislative way forward consistent with our proposal and federalism, one with a rich legislative history and experience of success at the federal level:

Bronwyn Hinz, researcher and teacher of public policy and Australian politics at the University of Melbourne who is currently completing a PhD on school funding and federalism, has taken a keen interest in the Federal Government's white paper.

So America's constitutional system is adept at accommodating our divisions over the meaning of our history, but only for as long as we cherish and protect the principles of federalism, local control, and freedom they embody.

A couple of years ago, at the last meeting Peter attended, he listened to a presentation on the dire state of federalism in the United States.

We have seen competitive federalism work in education at the inter-state level.

But at least the rally — though symbolically awful for federalism — was mainly hype.

This news excerpt was taken from an article posted January 16, 2009 by Mike on the CRIME AND FEDERALISM website, «A lawyer facing criminal charges for advising 10 nurses they could quit their jobs at a Long Island, N.Y., nursing facility gave «objectively reasonable» advice and can not be prosecuted, a Brooklyn appeals panel has ruled.»

He scoffed at the Obama administration's definition of the phrase cooperative federalism condemning it as a euphemism for EPA's usurpation of a state's right.

With EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's job now hanging in the balance, it is a good time to recall that, just after his Senate confirmation, he gave a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that emphasized the three principles he said would stand at «the heart of how we do business at the EPA»: process, rule of law, and federalism.

Fellow Law.com blogger Mike Cernovich once wrote at Crime & Federalism about King as a case study in the psychological toll taken by someone facing an indictment.

Daily posts cover congressional authority, federalism and legislative action at the state and federal levels related to interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

At his blog Crime & Federalism, he says Seidlin singlehandedly rests the case against cameras in the courtroom.