Sentences with phrase «restricted by the constitution»

Schools receive their operating funding from the state general fund, which is not restricted by the constitution for use on only common schools.

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(5) Power is full of danger; therefore the good state is one in which power is checked and balanced, restricted by sound constitutions and customs.

Fresno Pacific University president Richard Kriegbaum wrote in early June that the bill «would severely restrict the free and full exercise of religious freedom granted by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.»

Stated very simply, SB 1146 would severely restrict the free and full exercise of religious freedom granted by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

A «constitutional monarchy» is essentially a monarchy that is heavily restricted by said constitution.

Note that Article 13A, Section 1 of the California Constitution restricts how a community college district can spend borrowed money obtained through bond sales authorized through ballot measures approved by 55 % of the voters under the criteria of Proposition 39 (2000).

Thus it will be seen by these quotations from the opinion that the court, after stating the question it was about to decide in a manner too plain to be misunderstood, proceeded to decide it, and announced, as the opinion of the tribunal, that in organizing the judicial department of the Government in a Territory of the United States, Congress does not act under, and is not restricted by, the third article in the Constitution, and is not bound, in a Territory, to ordain and establish courts in which the judges hold their offices during good behaviour, but may exercise the discretionary power which a State exercises in establishing its judicial department and regulating the jurisdiction of its courts, and may authorize the Territorial Government to establish, or may itself establish, courts in which the judges hold their offices for a term of years only, and may vest in them judicial power upon subjects confided to the judiciary of the United States.

It should not be forgotten that Taricco I requires essentially to restrict the protection afforded to the principle of legality by the Italian Constitution on the basis of the obligations to protect the financial interests of the Union.

«Unlike the Congress of the United States, the General Assembly of Virginia functions under no grant of power»... The General Assembly, in «represent [ing] the sovereign authority of the people» is restricted only by the Constitution of Virginia «in express terms or by strong implication»... [I] t is a restraining instrument, and... the General Assembly... possesses all legislative power not prohibited by the Constitution»... In short, «[u] nless forbidden by some State or Federal constitutional provision,» the General Assembly's «powers are plenary.

That on 6 May, 1776, the Colony of Virginia threw off its dependence on the Crown and government of Great Britain and declared itself an independent state and government with the limits prescribed and established by the letters patent of May 23, 1609, as curtailed and restricted by the letters patent establishing the Colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Carolina and by the Treaty of February 10, 1763, between Great Britain and France, which limits, so curtailed and restricted, the State of Virginia, by its Constitution and form of government, declared should be and remain the limits of the state and should bound its western and northwestern extent.