Sentences with phrase «powers as the legislature»

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Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

As a member of the Continental Congress, he had repeatedly stopped short when convinced that the legislature lacked a given power under the Articles of Confederation.

As they constituted such a large number and always voted in a block, Smith used this power to wrest from the Illinois legislature unheard - of powers for his town.

Therefore, in order to move to a proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).

It would almost seem as if power were being drained from both domestic legislatures and executives and diffused not so much to domestic judiciaries as to transnational elite networks.

In 1911, Roosevelt as a newly elected state senator blocked the Tammany Hall - appointee for the U.S. Senate, back when Legislatures had that power, which was ultimately a way of granting patronage posts.

Silver says he's uncertain as to whether the Governor or the legislature has the power to enforce furloughs on the state workforce.

As chairman of the legislature, Reynolds has the power to not bring a resolution to a vote or table it until a future date.

Beep beep, goes Pennywise as he delivers a power point presentation about the lazy pachyderms in the state legislature.

Dan McCoy was elected in 2011 as Albany county's fourth executive: the former city firefighter once chaired the legislature, which holds much of the power to run the county.

She lamented how Albany is changing — «not necessarily for the better» — as she cited ethics issues and the legislature's power «being usurped by the governor.»

Look for this cat - and - mouse game to continue on multiple fronts as the legislature attempts to rebalance power with the executive.

Indeed, as the legislature's own non-partisan staff has already warned, it may violate constitutional limits on the legislature's authority to delegate its powers and duties to others.

ALBANY - A power play by the legislature against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo weakened Sunday as the Assembly agreed to introduce the governor's budget amendments.

That change perhaps allowed Pataki to score a victory in a struggle for power with the legislature over the state budget, when the governor won in case known as Pataki v Silver.

In a statement Wednesday, Nassau Republican chairman Joseph Mondello alluded to the wave that elected Democrats Tuesday as a natural blowback similar to the one that gave Democrats control of the county legislature for the first time in 1999, or when Republicans retook power in 2009 after President Barack Obama's policies had energized the opposition.

As former Court of Appeal judge Sir Stephen Sedley noted last year, he described «a statutory surveillance scheme shrouded in secrecy, part of a growing constitutional model that raises the question as to whether the tripartite separation of powers, legislature, judicial and executive still holds good&raquAs former Court of Appeal judge Sir Stephen Sedley noted last year, he described «a statutory surveillance scheme shrouded in secrecy, part of a growing constitutional model that raises the question as to whether the tripartite separation of powers, legislature, judicial and executive still holds good&raquas to whether the tripartite separation of powers, legislature, judicial and executive still holds good»

According to Article XIX of the New York Constitution, the state legislature has the power to propose amendments to the constitution as follows:

Dadey, with Citizens Union, says if Cuomo does not use his powers to try to steer the legislature toward more comprehensive reform, then he risks being seen as part of the problem.

On the allegations that the budget was padded, Dogara argued that whatever changes that were made in the budget fell within the appropriation powers of the legislature, which could not be described as criminal.

With the new powers granted by the Illinois legislature, Daley fils quickly formed a new school management team, which, just as quickly, unveiled what one local paper called «a dizzying array of new programs,» including principal training, longer school days, expanded preschool, college classes for the gifted, hiring of parents as truant officers, and alternative schools for dropouts.

Regardless of these amusing possibilities, it is unlikely that the Alabama Supreme Court will side with Price's brazenly unconstitutional power grab if party identification is as good a predictor of voting behavior there as it is in the legislature.

As I write, the National Conference of State Legislatures has just decreed that the federal No Child Left Behind act is an unconstitutional, unworkable, and undesirable federal power grab that should be rolled back - while the National Governors Association has made the contrary suggestion that NCLB's core principles and mechanisms be extended to cover high schools.

[Given that only seven states have Parent Trigger laws on the books, the real problem lies with state legislatures and governors such as those in Florida, where Rick Scott orchestrated a kibosh of a proposed Parent Power law in the state's senate.]

Since both the California legislature and the CA governor lean heavily Democratic (as opposed to Republican Texas) and since California Teachers Unions seem very cozy with the governor and the legislature, the list those who have enough power and might be complicit in a Faustian Bargain is very small.

Consider, however, that the powers of your School Board are established by our state legislature and your Board is based on the same principles of representation as our government.

First, only the legislature has the power to amend a statute and even then it must comply with our state constitution as reviewed by our Supreme Court.

As in New Hampshire, Montana's legislature is entirely controlled by Republicans, but Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock is a Common Core supporter who could exercise his veto power.

The increase in population which corresponds to the satisfaction of a natural instinct, is desirable in itself: «For as there is in all men, both male and female, a desire and power of generation, more active than is ever universally excited, the restraints which they lie under must proceed from some difficulties in their situation, which it belongs to a wise legislature carefully to observe and remove».

The legislature has further mandated that part of this renewable energy must come from solar, this is known as the solar carve out and requires that a certain percentage of that power comes from solar panels.

You know, we need to when I come back to the Public Utilities Commission; probably at some point the legislatures gone away, and another folks, you know, demand that there is insurance of understanding this deal and all the costs and all the risks, and then if it does proceed transparency and understanding, step - by - step what is going to be happening as far as replacement power.

Yet, even as advocates and clean energy business leaders in Virginia position our state to capture the benefits of offshore wind power development, influential decision - makers in Congress and in the Virginia state legislature are still pushing to bring us the risks of offshore drilling.

If their parliament, as the country's legislature, has decided to switch to renewable energy sources, we could predict the country's power independence soon, as well.

As Premier I will do just that and introduce measures in the legislature to correct this abuse of power by the Ontario Liberals.

My very quick look at the cases suggests that the Court picked up the «public use» element as a requirement for a taking back in the days when the Justices limited the legislature's authority to the «police power»; the idea is that a taking has to be a public use for it to fall within the police power.

77 Second, it is important to point out that provisions on conferring powers of public authority on border guards — such as the powers conferred in the contested decision, which include stopping persons apprehended, seizing vessels and conducting persons apprehended to a specific location — mean that the fundamental rights of the persons concerned may be interfered with to such an extent that the involvement of the European Union legislature is required.

It therefore concluded that «the concept of «measures for the approximation» of legislation must be interpreted as encompassing the EU legislature's power to lay down measures relating to a specific product or class of products as well as, if necessary, individual measures concerning those products.»

In short, it appears to be risky to assert that, by means of a provision such as Article 273 of Directive 2006/112, the legislature was anticipating the transfer of all the constitutional guarantees governing the exercise of the Member States» power to impose penalties — including the collection of VAT — from the Member States to the Union.

The Kansas Senate approved an amendment that would prohibit the courts from ordering more money for schools («The financing of the educational interests of the state is exclusively a legislative power under article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas and as such shall be established solely by the legislature.»)

For a municipal action to be shown as being unreasonable, the Court said that it must fall outside of a range of possible outcomes that were contemplated by the legislature when delegating the power.

Judicial review — «In this we see ourselves as the servants of the sovereign legislature» keeping the Government and Executive within the powers which Parliament has given them.

The s 159 amendments will neutralize the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) and give the management of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) absolute power to decide what benefits they will allow injured workers to have, regardless of the intention of this legislature as expressed in the Act.

[18] As Lord Denning explained in The Queen v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act 1867) «set out detailed provisions, in sections 91 and 92, distributing legislative powers between the Dominion Parliament and the provincial legislatures.»

HCR 17 and SCR 20 as filed invoke the legislature's power to remove from office a judge if 2 / 3rds of the House and Senate agree (Art.

State courts have also recognized that legislative immunity provisions enshrined in state constitutions also protect this bedrock principle.12 Moreover, as one Florida appellate court noted, legislative immunity is integral to the constitutional separation of powers: «The power vested in the legislature under the Florida Constitution would be severely compromised if [the judicial branch could compel] legislators... to appear in court to explain why they voted a particular way or to describe their process of gathering information on a bill.»

As I noted here, opponents claim the bill is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few yearAs I noted here, opponents claim the bill is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few yearas several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few years.

Opponents claim it is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few years.

But on June 12, 1990, a single eagle feather in the hands of a member of the Manitoba legislature became a symbol of power, of strength and determination, as Elijah Harper refused to allow a ratification vote on the Meech Lake Constitutional Accord...

The Court may see more constitutional challenges such as the Article 50 case, Miller; judicial reviews of Henry VIII powers; challenges from the devolved legislatures; and issues that arise because of Brexit but have nothing to do with EU law.

Simply put, if Parliament or the legislatures want courts to defer to government agencies on interpretations of law, an arrangement that can be easily understood by all Canadians as a departure from the conventional separation of powers, then it makes sense that they should have to «take it on the chin» — to do so explicitly and be prepared to be held accountable for it (whether in Parliament, in Committee Hearings, or at the ballot box).