Mr Obama's lawyers complained that Arizona was in effect attempting to set its own immigration policy, and thereby arrogating a power the constitution gives to the federal government.
However, the extraordinary degree of power that the constitution grants presidents makes this choice crucial.
The constitution provides power to the indigenous population (which constitute about 55% of the population) and to the Bolivian state apparatus.
Germany can afford to make concessions on some of the demands from the UK, but it cannot afford to unpick the key parts of the balance of power agreed in the constitution in 2004.
The issue is whether the Constitution grants the power asserted, not whether the legislation is good insurance policy.
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But as the constitution redistributes political power, and the after-effects of the financial crash reshape the economy, that is changing.
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The constitution also shifts power back to member states, and so citizens, in another way: by reform of the presidency system.
Under the Constitution, the power of the Supreme Court is quite limited.
The U.S. Constitution gives the power of the purse to Congress so that elected representatives can be accountable to the voters for their decisions.
The Byrd administration then sought to impeach the Judicial Appeals Tribunal, although most experts agreed that no judicial impeachment power exists in the Cherokee constitution.
In 2005 voters in the Netherlands and France rejected a new constitution to shift power from member nations to Brussels, reduce the requirement of unanimity for E.
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Does the Constitution limit our power to do that?
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They are the great unfathomed power in Britain's constitution.
Shortly after he came to power, he changed the constitution and had it include a clause saying the Senegalese were willing to see their sovereignty overtaken by that of a pan-African government.
Earlier President Chirac held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and asked him to "do everything in his power to ensure that the constitution is respected, " aides to the president said.
The Constitution gave Congress the power to collect duties, imposts and excise taxes but prohibits taxes between the states.
In defending the constitutionality of the Act, the federal government relies upon the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as the enumerated power supposedly delegating authority to the federal government for this regulatory compulsion.
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John Sharp, the state comptroller and the Democratic candidate for that powerful post (the lieutenant-governor, under the constitution, has most power to make or break bills), faces a formidable Republican opponent in Rick Perry.
In spite of the fact that Zelaya had violated the Honduran Constitution by calling for an illegal referendum to perpetuate himself in power and though the Congress and Supreme Court acted to protect the constitution, the removal of Zelaya was viewed by many countries as an illegal act.
That is why the Constitution gives the Congress the power to shape and structure the military.
In 1857 the liberals introduced a new constitution which mildly restricted that power.
It's only a question of whether that governor has the power to make the appointment that the Constitution says a governor can make.
The constitution establishes that the legislative power has the power to fire cabinet ministers but can do it only after three years of government.
The state's constitution gives its governors less power than the imposing Ionic columns of the governor's mansion in Austin might lead you to think.
By what stretch of the imagination (or the commerce clause), they ask, does the constitution give the feds the power to force citizens to buy insurance they do not want?
By now, we are all aware of the situation in Honduras where President Manuel Zelaya tried unsuccessfully to use the nation's institutions to illegally convoke a referendum in order to change the constitution and perpetuate himself in power.
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Because that's the power of the purse, and under the Constitution it rests solely with the legislative branch.
There's a clause in the Constitution that says Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce.
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