Write letters or call your local,
state or federal government representatives, urging them to not support such legislation.
Not exact matches
Members of the Alaska House of
Representatives recently passed a resolution asking the
federal government not to crackdown
or interfere in any way with
states that have legalized marijuana of which, of course, Alaska is one.
To be one of a hundred senators, one of 438
Representatives,
or a governor of a
state that has to follow the dictates of the
federal government would be a huge and frustrating adjustment.
Jason Nelson, a Republican
state representative from northwest Oklahoma who sponsored the bill to withdraw the
state from the Common Core, said he and his colleagues wanted to «break any kind of nexus where any private organization
or the
federal government would exert control over our standards.»
The GCCs are comprised of
representatives from across various levels of
government (
federal,
state, local,
or tribal), as appropriate to the operating landscape of each individual sector.
If your case involves a local,
state,
or federal government or its employee
or representative, there are restrictions that require notice to the
government of the claims being filed.
If so, should the
representative body seek to conduct these itself,
or in partnership with
governments at the local,
State / Territory and
federal levels?
This could be done directly by the National Indigenous
Representative Body
or in partnership with
governments (such as the
federal government through the ICC; the
state or territory
government; and possibly also the local council).
These include: the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission («ATSIC»); native title
representative bodies («NTRB's
or «
representative bodies»); the National Native Title Tribunal («NNTT»); the
Federal Court;
State and Commonwealth
government departments; local councils as well as private industry.