Sentences with word «federalist»

One explanation could be that people can «vote with their feet» in these kinds of federalist countries.

The various ways our Constitution make very unlikely a tyrannical national legislature described in FEDERALIST 10 and 51 don't include judicial review.

Your answer is presumably that we are allied with federalists with whom we we fundementally disagree as do the majority of the British people.

«Then we're back to a totally federalist system of education,» he added, noting that prior to NCLB, education policy was, for the most part, the sole dominion of states.

QUOTE FROM REDWOOD: «they may give us more federalist MPs by tipping the balance in favour of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat or Labour candidate»

But Douglas Carswell, who wants to leave the EU, said: «I hope it's a left - wing federalist who goes native immediately because that will be an important demonstration that we can not win in Europe and when the referendum comes any sensible Conservative will vote to leave.»

It is opposed by Federalists, who believed that the federal level should hold more power and feared a mob rule that might occur if individuals thought they new better than the educated elected politician.

It was, rather, the expression of a structural compromise between Federalists and Antifederalists, through which popular government in the states would be protected against tyrannical encroachment by the national government.

Why has no one actually refuted the logic behind what John Redwood said in «They have also shown that by putting some of their better candidates and strongest efforts into opposing Eurosceptic Conservatives in seats the Conservatives can win, they may give us more federalist MPs by tipping the balance in favour of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat or Labour candidate.»

Wouldn't federalist want * more * people to be executed, because the states could avoid further proceedings by killing the people now?

One of the great merits of Banning's meticulous work is to show the divisions that existed among Federalists even as they came together in the movement for a new Constitution.

World Federalists believe that the environmental crisis facing planet earth is a global problem and therefore calls for a «global» solution — a worldwide United Nations Environmental Agency with the power to make its decisions stick.

One Europe for federalists.

Cameron had caved in to a delegation of «Better off out» Conservative MPs, who said that the EPP was too federalist» Instead, they insisted, an alternative alliance comprising «real» conservatives, especially from the 2004 EU intake in Central and Eastern Europe, could be formed.

We don't have major federal funding earmarked for schools, but we do have equalization payments that (I believe) are more robust than the US federalist model.

Many officials in Strasbourg and Brussels readily describe themselves as federalists, however.

Administration officials and some industry groups say Mr. Watson had it just right, that having the states take the lead is in the best federalist tradition.

On the policy question, however, as they so gingerly suggest, the judges point out that Ottawa's goal of a national approach to securities regulation can surely be accomplished by a cooperative, federalist approach.

He makes a strong case that the idea of covenant, drawn from scripture and developed variously in different cultures and societies, is particularly suited to support public, just, pluralistic, federalist structures within the church and in the government.

Even FEDERALIST 49 might be understood to be a bit too ironic about it, by saying straight out the «veneration which time bestows on everything,» whether it's really good or not.

He continued: «The foreign secretary himself has called the Lib Dems «the most fanatically federalist party in Britain».

Erica L. Green writes in the New York Times that, after Secretary DeVos» speech to state chiefs last week, «policy experts and observers» have called the speech the «ultimate display of a frustrated federalist,» and an «example of a self - described education reformer wrestling with the limits of her influence...

Canada's federalist experiment around carbon pricing paid off: four different provinces are running four different programs, and now the federal government is ready to implement a national price in 2018.

Deneen's immediate source for the Founding = Locke = THE FEDERALIST = individualistic techno - nihilism is what Paul Seaton astutely called the anti-Founderism of his brilliant and wonderful teacher Carey McWilliams.

MONTREAL — Paul Desmarais, one of Canada's most influential business tycoons and a strong federalist, has died at the age of 86.

However, Kennedy's federalist position is dubious in light of the decision being grounded in an Equal Protection argument.

I know many who have been made into quasi-libertarian radical federalists by this narrative — after all, if we lower the stakes, surely the fights will grow less vicious — others, including MacIntyre himself, recommend the founding of autonomous communities with a shared vision of what a good life entails.

Wills's contention that Madison was a proponent of legislative supremacy among the branches is unconvincing given that it was the overweening power granted legislatures by the state constitutions that Madison and other Federalists sought to avoid at the federal level in the Constitution.

The primary concern of Brutus is that judicial review is a stealth weapon implicit in the idea of a written Constitution that would be used by the evildoing Federalists to dispower the states.

His private correspondence with fellow nationalists (who were coming to be called Federalists) was extensive, frequently directive, and clearly dismissive of the anti-Federalist opposition (Patrick Henry among them).

If it can be shown, after all, that the founding Federalists were opposed to any government that promoted a particular conception of the good life, might we not then say that Laurence Tribe's and Eleanor Smeal's defense of «reproductive freedom» as a constitutional right is consistent with the principles of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay?

Blair's latest intervention came as David Cameron faced criticism for having attacked the centre - left's preferred candidate Jean - Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg federalist.

(After all, leading examples of empirical «decentralization» in today's world include China and France, neither one of which would be confused with a constitutionally federalist legal order.)

While not necessarily the best policy, accommodating experiments in the «laboratories of democracy» represents smart politics: it fits with Republican notions of states» rights and federalist self - determination, but is also consistent with the overwhelming support cannabis legalisation enjoys among the Democratic base.

If it is impossible for ordinary Conservative opinion to sit with mainstream European progressive Federalists and Socialists then I am not surprised, we are not like them and if this means there is no democracy for us in Europe then I daresay you are rejoicing.

This could be done by renewing the old tradition of European «federalist sovereignty», but in a way that would reinforce rather than impede political agency.

Speaking ahead of a rally in Edinburgh, he described Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond as a «fanatical EU federalist» and challenged him to debate the meaning of «independence» with him ahead of the Scottish referendum in September.

He said he was present at a vote in which it was decided «raving federalist» Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean - Claude Juncker should be the first name discussed as the new European Commission president.

Jean - Claude Juncker, an EU veteran with federalist ambitions, had arrived in Brussels signalling he wanted immediate official backing to succeed Jose Manuel Barroso as European Commission president later this year.

Their euro - federalist stance was clear in secretary of state Hillary Clinton's 2009 interview with The Irish Times.

Aregbesola is as emphatic in his belief in the rule of law and the importance of debate as drivers of democracy as he is an unapologetic federalist, who believes in the sanctity and relative autonomy of the federating units.

Described by The Daily Telegraph as a «little - known Belgian federalist and (the) Labour peer who has never held elected office,» the anonymous Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy and the UK's European Commissioner Baroness Ashton were appointed to the posts by EU leaders over a private dinner in Brussels this evening.

The former EU commissioner said he recently spoke to Juncker in private and the new president is no «green - eyed federalist monster» but open to working with the UK.

One of the things I teach in my class on education politics is that there are few principled federalists — that is, people whose views on the appropriate scope of federal power remain the same regardless of who's in charge in Washington.

Muhlenberg was a «low» Federalist, not as all - out for central power as the Hamiltonian Federalists, but loyal to President Washington.

«Barkley Hendricks: «Let's Make Some History»» is mounted in a gallery across from another exhibition featuring some of the museum's vast collection of federalist era portraiture.

Unfortunately, with the not so popular arch federalist Martin Schulz who wants a full blown Union with EU members transferring sovreignity to Brussels.