Sentences with phrase «own branch of government»

U.S. courts have historically been careful about probing the motives behind laws, in part out of respect for the separation of powers between branches of government.

«In a rush to publish, media outlets have not given the full context - including the extent to which these programs are overseen by all three branches of government - to these effective tools.»

But that is the executive branch of government.

Republicans may also find themselves tempted by the political running room they would have with the investigation ended and the three branches of government under their control.

If Google, Apple and other U.S. tech companies get help from all branches of government to advance their collective prosperity, why are we insisting that Canadian entrepreneurs do it alone?

If there is a silver lining to be found in any of this, it just might be that the legislative branch of our government might be compelled to stop passing the buck to unelected members of the Fed and reassert its policy leadership role on behalf of Main Street rather than just Wall Street.

Republicans control all three branches of government.

The transition from monetary policy to fiscal policy has begun in the U.S., and the baton has now been passed to the executive and legislative branches of government, which are responsible for enacting policies that can carry growth further.

But almost every other foreign policy responsibility, McDougall shows, lies in a no - man's - land between the various branches of government: No mention is made of a power to recognize or de-recognize foreign regimes, terminate treaties as opposed to make them, make peace as opposed to war, declare neutrality in the wars of others, annex or cede territory, bestow or deny foreign aid, impose sanctions, regulate immigration and the status of aliens...

Santorum will give them a shot at control of ALL THREE branches of government.

Ponder, if you will what the USA would like if Topher and Theo Phileo were to gain power of all three branches of government.

It is tiresome but can you imagine what America would be like if a creationist theocracy ever gained power in all three branches of government.

In their beginnings, American Methodism and the United States of America created three branches of government: legislative, executive, and....

There is a difference between what individual agencies of a government do, and what the legislative branch of the government says they do / should do, and what the administrative branch says tney do / should do.

Sociological studies show that people are highly skeptical about professional politicians and all three branches of government.

If we reflect on a comparable concept, «separation of powers,» we might recall that it, too, is not found in the Constitution, that there never has been «absolute» separation between the three branches of government, and that the expansion and complexity of modern government has not rendered it impractical or obsolete.

The party that he founded — the Republican Nationalist Alliance, or ARENA — now controls all branches of government: the presidency, the legislature and the courts.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

After World War II the executive branch of government argued that it needed absolute power in foreign affairs because (1) in a nuclear age, when missiles can make the trip from Moscow to New York in 20 minutes, there is no time to consult Congress and the people, and (2) the «secret, subversive» techniques of the communists can be challenged only by subversion and secrecy on our part.

The judicial branch of government has no authority here, according to Bush.

In accord with this concept of the free market came other freedoms to supplement and enhance it: the freedom of an individual to engage in enterprise, the freedom to speak his mind and worship his God, the freedom to choose those who govern, as well as protection from those who govern, through a system of «checks and balances» whereby each of the three branches of government curbed the power of the others.

The evidence strongly suggests that the legislative and judicial branches of our government have become so servile in the presence of the imperial Presidency that they have largely lost the ability to respond in a principled and independent manner.

We have an entire branch of government devoted to interpreting the Consttution and laws passed by Congress, and those are written in English and only a couple hundred years old at the most, not thousands of years ago from a different language and culture.

So what branch of government would like to regulate the se.x lives of your fellow Americans?

Apart from the unseemliness of the president trying so blatantly to impose his will on a co-ordinate branch of the government, this plea was completely irrelevant.

However, when they don't, the Judiciary Branch of the government, the Supreme Court, can step in and make a final ruling.

The other two branches of government have no business in the issue; they need to be concerned with the bigger picture; foreign policies and matters, national economy, and disagreements between states on matters that affect national politics.

The use of the word «regime» compounds the problem, for it suggests that it is not the legitimacy of a particular institution or branch of government that is at stake but the very nature of our government.

The least democratic branch of government took the initiative, while the most democratic took years to act.

DEMS HAVE CONTROL OF 2 BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, REID MADE SURE WITH THE NUCLEAR OPTION THE CAN OVERRIDE EVERYTHING ELSE!

There's an idea that there is, in fact, a fourth branch of government that provides a final check and balance against power: the press.

There is an assumption in the American Constitution that rises out of a biblical insight into the nature of human life: given the self - centered, sinful nature of all human beings that causes us to operate from the vantage point of self - interest, no one person or one branch of government should ever be allowed to achieve total power.

The NRA is not a branch of government.

He maintains that it simply stands for the power of the Court, as a coequal branch of government, to act on its own interpretation of the Constitution in deciding what it can and can not do.

But even if this principle is valid, should the judicial branch of our governments be empowered to determine whether individuals deserve to die?

Since the political common good depends on no branch of government taking more than its share of authority, obedience should not be given to an act that violates the foundation of the rule of law.

That is particularly so when the representative branches of government have no effective way of resisting the Court's depredations.

Borkwrites: «As he explains, «a branch of government should not judge itself.

I don't see that as a «political» stance — that's a «I don't want a compromised person running the executive branch of our government» stance.

Overseeing all of Soviet sport is the Ministry of Sports and Physical Culture, a branch of the government with thousands of employees.

One of them was the concept of «separation of powers,» to ensure a system of checks and balances among the three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial.

Cuomo has called for a uniform policy across the different branches of government.

But the reality of corruption in the executive branch of government doesn't mean that allegations of corruption in the National Assembly especially as they relate to budget padding and constituency projects, should be minimized or ignored.

Cuomo has acknowledged vetoing LATFOR's plan would likely cause «chaos,» and would send the whole mess to the courts, which 1) robs him of any control over the situation, and 2) gives the Legislature a good shot at getting what it wants, since judges traditionally shy away from getting deeply involved in political squabbles between the other two branches of government.

You're thinking of the big money involved and the flawed distribution of power between the branches of government.

The Senate was «remade» last election cycle after two deplorable years of Democrats ruling each branch of government.

Can't he recuse himself and kick the issue to outside counsel, as has been done by past AGs when two branches of government duke it out in court?)

Yet no one claims that its independence makes the US judiciary something other than a branch of the government.

«I think we need transparency in this branch of government, too.

Anyone working in the executive branch of the government (with the possible exception of Vice President and any special prosecutors) work directly for the President because that is what the Constitution makes them.