But he had a habit of using his constitutional power to send laws back to parliament.
Well, he used his executive constitutional power to appoint Cordray while Congress was in recess.
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But, in the end, these cases are really about Constitutional power, and they should be decided on that basis.
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Put another way, the expansion of congressional power authorized by the New Deal and Warren Courts established a new high water mark of constitutional power.
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That difficulty is troubling, but not fatal, not least because we are interpreting the scope of a long-established constitutional power, not recognizing a new constitutional right.
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Tuesday afternoon, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will have an opportunity to demonstrate why the Framers gave the Senate the constitutional power to confirm presidential appointees.
The Scots ceded a great deal of constitutional power to England (although preserving their distinctive legal and educational systems), in return for free access to the growing commercial opportunities on offer in the Empire.
Fortunately for him, however, he had no real constitutional power to do anything other than to act as a sideline cheerleader for a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed civil unions but not same-sex marriage.
As it is, his resignation paves the way for a constitutional transfer of power and new elections.
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Each of the entities was given rights that may infringe on powers vested in at least one of the three traditional branches of American government, and thus to constitutional checks on power, according to the plaintiffs.
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The gold standard also reinforces the constitutional limits on the power of the federal government.
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It might, however, be a small but important step toward jettisoning years of misguided restraint and once again taking constitutional limits on government power seriously.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the mandate is constitutional under Congress' taxing power.
He has also promoted constitutional changes to dilute the power of regions.
Mr Olmert will stay on all this time as transitional prime minister, bereft, by constitutional convention, of the power to make big new decisions.
Already, such fears appear to be coming true in Egypt, where the new president, Mohamed Morsy, has already engaged in extra-constitutional practices to grab more power for himself.
With an election due this year, Mr Rudd always held a constitutional trump card: the power to dissolve both houses of parliament together, and resubmit the bill to the new parliament.
Mr Sarkozy has promised constitutional changes aimed at strengthening the power of the assembly.
The justices did not address the underlying constitutional issue of the transfer of power to the president, and solely addressed whether the lawmakers could legally challenge the measure.
This will give him the right to block nominees with no evident talents for a commissioner's job, and to demote lousy ones once in office. (Next year's constitutional conference might give him the power to sack them outright.) But governments could respond bitterly all the same if the commissioner involved is theirs.
Republicans claim to love capitalism and the Constitution, but when the capitalist system sought to cleanse itself of failed concepts on the way to a healthy economic recovery, the GOP ignored strict constitutional limits meant to restrain federal power on the way to propping up businesses that the markets had left for dead.
There is a basic (and constitutional) difference between seeking more power for all ten provinces, seen as equals with each other, and the French-Canadian view, not confined to secessionists, that today's Canada was born of a compact between two equal peoples, French-speakers and English (a minority until around 1850), which has since been repeatedly upset.
Months after assuming power, he called a constitutional convention that rewrote Venezuela's charter to allow re-election.
The danger here is that people whose real objection is to Mr Brown will find a high-minded quasi-constitutional pretext to object to his growing power.
Thus, there is a great chance here that the political logic of the executive power be reflected in the constitutional and legal logic of the judiciary.
Recently, it has become fashionable to play down that progress by pointing out that many of the new democracies have not gone beyond elections to build the other, essential, protections for liberty: an independent judiciary, equality before a well-enforced rule of law, and constitutional limits on the abuse of political power.
Remember, the courts still have the power to throw out laws on constitutional grounds.
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Omar Bongo, Gabon's president for 35 years, secured a constitutional change that could let him remain in power indefinitely.
Under an interim constitutional declaration, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament elected.
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