But I think his point about Congress was simply that the Supreme Court, since the New Deal, has deferred to the legislature, those who are elected by people around the country to write laws for them, and in this matter, on matters of national economic importance, to pass laws that regulate the economy and regulate areas of the economy like our health care market.
These upper-chamber representatives would not be directly elected by the people, but they would still be elected tribunes of the people.
And we support this government, because the government understands it was elected by the people.
Salter became the first female mayor in the U.S. Salter was elected by the people of Argonia, Kansas.
The House of Commons has always been the superior chamber precisely because its members are directly elected by the people.
And it did it in the way our Founding Fathers envisioned, through the words of a man elected by the people of America to lead them.
Some have argued that the standard for him should be lower because he is elected by the people, while federal judges are appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve for life.
And it was a report that General Casey, who is with us today, and our Ambassador Zal Khalilzad, who is with us today, as well as the Prime Minister's team, delivered to both of us about how to accelerate responsibility to the Iraqi government so this person elected by the people can take the fight to those who want to destroy a young democracy.
So the American -- so the President believes -- again, because he will put forward proposals that we believe should have bipartisan support, that faced with that imperative -- because everyone here is working for the American people, and the members of Congress, like the President, were elected by the American people -- will do the right thing and actually focus on the issues that matter, which -- the economy and jobs.
"Everyone knows that the Iraqi government is one elected by the Iraqi people, and no one puts timetables or restrictions other than the Iraqi people who elected the government, " al-Maliki said Wednesday during a visit to Syria's capital, Damascus.
But some republicans want the president to be elected directly by the people.
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They maintained that, if an Australian republic were to mean anything, the head of state should be elected directly by the people.
Yet dismissing the Knesset is like dismissing the United States Congress on the grounds that the president is directly elected by the American people.
There is sensitivity to outside interference, with Mr Rajoy saying that European leaders should be elected by their own people, not hand-picked by Brussels or Berlin.
While the signatories are certainly free to oppose the Administration's positions, their differences seem to be with a man twice elected by the American people to design and execute security policies, rather than with one of his most effective and articulate officials in advancing those policies.
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Our society is better off when social questions such as same sex marriage are decided through debate and discussion by the people and their elected representatives, not by a handful of judges.
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Criticism of Secretary Bolton lately orchestrated on behalf of a group of retired diplomats is misplaced - and wrong : His views on arms control are identical to those of George W. Bush, the man elected twice by the American people to craft U.S. security policy.
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Taxation should be left to representatives elected by and accountable to the people.
It lies rather in a slogging drudgery which improves by inches the laws that govern and the lives led by the people who elected them.
However, she stressed that UK laws are "made by the elected representatives of the people in Parliament", adding: "Our democracy is subverted when judges decide to take on that role for themselves".
Often it's decided by people who are not elected actually, because they're made up in a different way.
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William Jefferson Clinton was elected freely, fairly and openly by the American people to be president.
Citigroup ( C - news - people )'s nominated directors were elected by at least 70.0%, including four new board members.
But Mr Netanyahu's people say that Israel's new government, elected by a right-lurching public, cannot be bound by such unsigned, unpalatable understandings.
Since 1993, when Burundi's first elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, was murdered by army officers, 200, 000 people have been killed, estimates the United Nations.
By refusing to resign, he is honoring the will of the people who elected him, Lugo said.
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Directly elected police and crime commissioners would be introduced by 2012 to "transfer power back to the people", she said.
Activist judges, however, have begun redefining marriage by court order, without regard for the will of the people and their elected representatives.
As a new Congress gathers, all of us in the elected branches of government share a great privilege: we have been placed in office by the votes of the people we serve.
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