Sentences with phrase «of federal coercion»
Confirming the influence of the federal program on states» adoption behavior does not necessarily support the claims of federal coercion, however.
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In hindsight, this was probably a mistake because it opened the door to legitimate charges of federal coercion.
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If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»
Trump's choice, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has said the Clean Power Plan is a form of federal «coercion and commandeering»
Fordham did not lift a finger to object to this federal coercion on standards, so why would we believe their new - found conviction that all of this should «be completely voluntary for states»?
The news from Massachusetts is just the latest reminder that federal coercion and supercilious intimidation may not be a winning strategy for pursuing that kind of change.
It is the promise of extra funding that Jindal says in the lawsuit coerces states into adopting the Common Core standards and «constitutes unlawful coercion that exceeds federal authority and violates the 10th Amendment,» the lawsuit says.
The trouble with the Common Core is not that it was the handiwork of anti-American ideologues or anti-teacher dogmatists, but that it was the work of well - meaning, self - impressed technocrats who fudged difficult questions, used federal coercion to compel rapid national adoption, and assumed that things would work out.
«This strengthened partnership with OSHA extends our inter-agency collaboration specifically to include the sharing of reports of alleged coercion — companies forcing or intimidating truck or bus drivers to violate federal safety regulations,» said FMCSA Administrator Anne S. Ferro.
Proposed changes for Truth in Lending The Federal Reserve Board will issue new rules for mortgage lenders next week that could require mortgage brokers obtain written agreements from borrowers in order to collect yield spread premiums, and prohibit the coercion of appraisers to inflate property valuations.
Somehow the framers of the US constitution managed to gift the federal government with the power of coercion over individual states.
As explained in my new book, Environmentalism Gone Mad (available here), Federal coercion to expand the use of «renewables» would end up forcing electric power ratepayers to spend much more to obtain much less reliable electric power.
They also include further despoliation of Federal lands with ugly and bird and bat - killing windmills and solar installations that are likely to be abandoned when the Federal subsidies end and the coercion is relaxed.
Accordingly, the CPP is «the most potent brew of federal commandeering and coercion of states in American history.»
In the U.S., after a federal racketeering trial, which Chevron Corp. initiated against those that procured the fraudulent judgment in Ecuador, a federal court found the Ecuadorian judgment to be the product of «egregious fraud,» as well as bribery, coercion and political interference.
Similar concerns about coercion have been expressed in respect of the Tiwi Islands where there is a concern that the federal government will not deliver on a $ 10 million funding commitment for a new boarding school if the community rejects a proposed 99 year lease.