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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.
The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.
A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.
The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.
I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.
Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.
Social media is such a key organizing and communication tool, and I've made a major commitment to use it as a way to make the legislative process as transparent as possible.
I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.
Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.
By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.
The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.
Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.
It is not the responsibility of the judiciary to amend poor legislative drafting, even if judges would personally prefer a different outcome than what is required by a statute's text.
Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.
The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
One of the worst facets of partisan policymaking is when common-sense reforms are sandwiched between a left-wing legislative wish list.
The powers, conditions, and desires that propel Mexicans and Central Americans into this country are so fundamental, so vast, that no action, legislative or other-wise, can discourage this flight.
The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.
I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.
In Barack Obama's second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an innovative scale.
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.
If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.
Good union leaders make excellent public leaders in the legislative and executive branches.
We need to take the country in the right direction, whether it is around administrative policy decisions or legislative changes or ensuring the macroeconomic stability.
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'
Bringing in timely laws that are the need of the hour requires nimbleness to get through the necessary legislative processes.
In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.
The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.
Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the powers are divided on purpose. And that was - that - so that no one branch could run off.
A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
I've been very thankful in my state legislative career to have gotten support from both the MPAA and various movie studios.
We`ll go through the legislative process and I`m make it clear what I support, don`t support and what I think is good for Arkansas.
Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats. You only have five states.
Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
