Education and health care are prominent among the subjects that Californians want to make laws about.
In American terms, it is as if federal agencies were able to make laws without reference to Congress or to the states.
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Conservatives believe that elected politicians should make laws and judges should apply them, or throw them out if they violate the constitution.
The Welsh Assembly acquired the powers to make laws to promote and support the Welsh language from the UK parliament in February 2010.
The assembly will not even be able to make laws on the Welsh language, a matter of little interest to anybody else in Britain.
The Dutch presidency's draft treaty had proposed letting the EC make laws by majority vote in new areas such as working conditions and worker consultation.
One reason for this taxonomic inflation is that the idea of a species becoming extinct is easy to grasp, and thus easy to make laws about.
"Certainty is an integral part of the rule of law and the government needs to make laws that give a clear picture to investors, " Mr. Butani said.
If they want to make laws, they're going to have to work with the moderate Republicans and try to build some coalitions with the conservatives in the Senate.
The Government of Wales Bill currently going through Parliament would give the National Assembly powers to make laws (known as "Assembly Measures") on a wide range of matters.
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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.
These female leaders have fought -- and fought hard -- to take a place at the table and make laws that improve the lives of American women and families.
Since, then, Americans have not, by any act of theirs, empowered the British Parliament to make laws for them, it follows they can have no just authority to do it.
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Citizens, through their representatives, make laws that specify who and how many immigrants will be welcomed, and on what terms, as a legitimate exchange of property rights, for perceived benefits.
Under an interim constitutional declaration, the military council said it retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament is elected.
Depending on how broadly the order was drafted the assembly could then have power to make laws affecting large areas of language policy without ever having to go back to Parliament.
In a remote tribal community near the Khyber Pass, where no governmental jurisdiction reaches, Peerzada portrays the work of the jirga - a 5, 000-year-old tradition in which all the villagers gather to make laws.
Under an interim constitutional declaration released Monday by the military council, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions for the country until a new constitution can be written and a new parliament elected.
But, as the Supreme Court told President Truman when he attempted to use an executive order to place all steel factories under control of the federal government, executive orders may not be used to make laws, only to execute them.
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He said politicians make the laws, police do the arresting and judges do the judging and sentencing.
In other words, if economics counts, it's better to make good laws than pernicious walls.
His minions would make new laws even if the Councils did not pass them.
They, after all, are the ones who we vest authority in to make our laws.
Canada's Supreme Court ruled that the province has the right to make such laws.
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Besides raising individual donation limits, Congress and state legislators should also make disclosure laws much more stringent.
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The First Amendment, as a reminder, is the one that states that government shall make no laws establishing religion.
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All the main party manifestos backed the idea that those who make our laws should be elected rather than appointed to, or inheriting, the job.
Experts said the "ILOVEYOU" case most likely is a federal criminal case because single states do not have the power to make their laws applicable in an international arena.
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