Sentences with phrase «legitimate role of government»

Ann Marie Buerkle, a Republican representing the Syracuse area who won her seat last year with Tea Party support, said that disaster relief was a «legitimate role of government» and that it should not be held up by the desire to identify reductions elsewhere in the federal budget.

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The federal government has a legitimate role in overseeing the marketplace for schooling, including the architecture of parental choice systems.

Ministers in their role as Union legislators are legitimated to act both in accordance with the constitutional requirements of their own domestic legal order (in the UK the Royal prerogative to conduct international relations) in addition to being legitimated to act from the perspective of the Union legal order by the constitutional Treaty, specifically Article 16 (2) TEU's stipulation that «The Council shall consist of a representative of each member state at ministerial level, who may commit the government of the Member State in question and cast its vote.»

I said recently to the GLS Administrative Law conference that the role of government lawyers is a constitutionally significant one providing, as we do, risk - based advice which circumscribes the legitimate basis for government action.

Now I understand and actually think it is quite an important thing to do mainstreaming of these responsibilities, and I think it's very important that you know all the other departments in the government have such responsibility also, but inasmuch as it's clear that there is a need for and, if you will, a legitimate or authoritative voice from the Aboriginal community to enter into consultations and negotiations with the government, I just wonder whether or not they are now being disempowered, so that they are not as able to play effectively that role.