Sentences with phrase «under the constitution in»

The federal government could, however, decide to resume enforcing these laws any time it wanted to and the states would have little - to - no recourse to stop it from doing so, other than attempting to argue in court that federal drug laws aren't authorized under the Constitution in the first place.

As for Congress, the Obama climate team has always bluntly communicated the limits on presidential discretion under the Constitution in explaining what the country can, and can't commit to in these negotiations.

Questioned about rights of privacy, the appellate judge cited several amendments in the Bill of Rights and said, «I do think the right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways.»

Not exact matches

Davis sought Supreme Court review after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in May that the failure to obtain a warrant did not violate Davis» right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

«It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws... for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States,» he wrote.

Congress has formal authority over trade policy under the US Constitution, but it has generally delegated much of its authority to the executive branch in modern times.

Given that Congress jealously guards its powers under the Constitution, such an effort would likely gain the support of representatives from most states, not only those with an economic interest in maintaining NAFTA.

Remember, health and safety are clearly under provincial jurisdiction in our Constitution.

Under Section 92A of the Constitution Act, provinces, «may make laws in relation to the export from the province to another part of Canada of the primary production from non-renewable natural resources.»

A logical and well thought arguments backed by solid facts are the primary requirements under the Constitution to put a stop to any business in India»

Equality under and before the law is a solemn promise conveyed to all our citizens in the Constitution itself.

«We urge the Iranian government to uphold this right for religious minorities in Iran, in line with its obligations under international law and the provisions upholding the rights of religious minorities in its own constitution.»

It removes proposals to revise the Constitution from the realm of partisan political controversy, and it necessitates the retention of means, similar to those which have been used in the past, to give the needed flexibility to the development of the Constitutional system — means which, as we have already seen, placed the political destinies of the American people under the immediate direction of a group of benevolent guardians.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

In Lucia v. SEC, the argument centered on the question of whether administrative judges are wielding the power to settle cases decisively and issue orders, even though they are not appointed and confirmed as judges according to the form prescribed under Article III of the Constitution.

(A decision for same - sex marriage by a state could as in the case of Massachusetts, preempts the debate in that state, but it is less far - reaching because it leaves other states to arrive at a different conclusion — unless, as some same - sex - marriage proponents have claimed, other states are required to recognize such marriages under the Constitution's requirement of giving «full faith and credit» to other states» proceedings.)

Seven of the nine justices voted in favor of making abortion a fundamental right under the Constitution.

Tom Tom «He doesn't seem to grasp the idea that we «agree» to have a system of jurisprudence that determines what is legal and what is not in such a way as to preserve our individual rights as they are guaranteed to us under our Constitution»

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

In this sense they are more like books or magazines than television, and they are entitled to the same protection under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution accorded books and magazines.

Ignacio Comonfort was the first president elected under the constitution of 1857, in which the Church was legally restrained.

The most sustained religious discussion in these huge volumes has to do with the line in Article VI of the Constitution that «no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.»

The executive role in foreign affairs, at least under the Constitution, pales in comparison to that of Congress.

I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three - day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas.

Few believers are likely to pledge their allegiance to a government under which the courts» in the name of «constitutional rights» they themselves have sole authority to read into the Constitution» can systematically close off any form of political opposition by declaring it to betray the «inevitable inference» of animus.

Strauss seems to say it's found in the clasical view of the best constitution: All human ends are hierarchically ordered under the highest human end.

We decide our own laws - as long as they fall under the umbrella of a Constitution written with the protection of individual freedom in mind.

Thus, Nicholas Lash - in, of course, The Tablet - on the Apostolic constitution which has authorised and enabled the setting up of jurisdictions under which Anglicans may become Roman Catholics not individually but collectively.

[40] In the constitution under Section V: The Sacraments of the Church, Sub-Section: A. Baptism, Clause 4, we read:

Homosexuality is not a protected class under the U.S. Constitution, so discrimination in this way is not wrong.

This was not possible or practical in his day nor is it in ours under the kind of Constitution we have.

Whichever scholar has the better argument, they agree that the decision focused the debate over slavery and introduced into the already heady brew of issues involved in that debate the question of the scope of judicial power under the Constitution.

The rulers, who, as in Shõtoku's constitution, represent heaven, are to provide a nurturant and paternal regime under which the people can flourish.

Even today, some scholars argue that it did nothing more than declare that the Supreme Court is within its rights in declining to exercise an authority putatively conferred upon it by Congress when such authority exceeds the jurisdiction granted to the Court under Article Three of the Constitution.

Like others who support the original understanding of the Constitution, I disagree with many of the Supreme Court's decisions under the establishment clause, but in our system of government a federal - district judge like Judge Jones is bound by those decisions.

United in it, under its new constitution adopted at Jerusalem and under the farseeing chairmanship of Dr. John R. Mott, are not only all the Protestant missionary forces of the West, but also the National Christian Councils which in recent years have come into being in China, Japan, India and many other parts of what is commonly called the missionary field.

In answer to the objection against the lack of religious test for an officeholder under the new Constitution, Isaac Backus, outstanding Baptist minister, gave a stirring speech.

That the phrase «separation of church and state» does not appear in the text of the Constitution assumes much importance, it seems, to some who may have once labored under the misimpression it was there and, upon learning they were mistaken, reckon they've discovered a key to solving a Constitutional mystery.

Under such a worldview, the religious liberty guaranteed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is downgraded to a more manageable freedom of worship, with the secularizing elites implicitly claiming to preside impartially over the rival communities of the faithful.

Fast - tracking, according to journalist Dave Johnson enables Congress to agree «to set aside its duties under Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and vote on TPP within 90 days of it being signed, to severely limit discussion and debate, not to filibuster the agreement in the Senate and not to amend it not matter what problems turn up after the agreement is revealed».

The Founding Fathers reached consensus that republicanism contains a provision to abolish and reform the government under new foundational laws, and is embodied in Article 4, section 4 of the Constitution.

Under the 1959 constitution there was an elected Legislative Council (Malay: Majlis Mesyuarat Negera), but only one election has ever been held, in 1962.

Schneiderman last year filed a legal challenge to major fantasy sports operators, arguing the companies in New York act as «games of chance» — outlawed under the state's Constitution.

In a way, I'm saying there should be no election until we have a new constitution under the Sovereign National Conference.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

If the father and / or mother of the baby born at Palmyra Island were U.S. citizens that would have been an alternate means by which the child would be a U.S. citizen at birth in that case, and a U.S. citizen is also under the U.S. Constitution a citizen of the U.S. state in which he or she resides.

Our clients have directed us in the circumstances to petition His Excellency the President of the Republic to exercise his powers of prerogative of mercy under Article 72 of the Constitution of Ghana».

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

Said President Weah: «Article 7 — The Republic shall, consistent with the principles of individual freedom and social justice enshrined in this Constitution, manage the national economy and the natural resources of Liberia in such manner as shall ensure the maximum feasible participation of Liberian citizens under conditions of equality, so as to advance the general welfare of the Liberian people and the economic development of Liberia.»