He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
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The proposals have been strongly criticised by civil rights groups Amnesty, Liberty and Reprieve, who are opposed to the use of withheld evidence in civil cases and the power the changes will give ministers.
Important to note is the perpetuation of power at the expense of civil society.
Within the EU price fixing is a civil offense, with the power to bust cartels squarely lying within Monti's authority.
President Hugo Chavez has been gradually reducing the power of civil society in Venezuela for the last several years.
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According to one expert, however, the biggest obstacle to tighter security is not with the front-line (where police and intelligence services now co-operate well), but with the senior civil servants and politicians who have the power.
What worries the government more than the civil disturbances is organized resistance from within the power structure.
Democracy without democratic institutions is not simply inadequate, but dangerous, bringing with it the erosion of liberty, the abuse of power and even collapse of the civil society.
The mohajirs, who did not own land, and so consequently had no place in the traditional political and social structure, were now having their power-base in the civil service whipped from under them.
Additionally, the Bank Secrecy Act fraud specialist has the power to make a referral to FinCen for Title 31 violations, the IRS civil division for violations of the federal tax laws, as well as the power to make referrals to the IRS Criminal Division.
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Civil courts have the power to issue Forced Marriage Protection orders to prevent weddings from taking place.
Thus, they have the power to bring civil charges if companies are found to not uphold legal business practices.
Their silence shows that they, too, care more about political power than the civil liberties they otherwise are quick to defend.
We also should further strengthen the ATF by making it easier to revoke the licenses of reckless dealers, give it the power to suspend licenses and levy civil penalties, and eliminate the bizarre restriction that limits the ATF to only one spot inspection of a gun dealer per year.
The answer lies in a huge yet barely acknowledged shift of power within government: from the civil-service machine to ministerial personal advisers and spin-doctors.
But the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has warned the UK could face power cuts in 20 years' time, because it will depend so heavily on foreign energy sources to produce its electricity.
In other areas, it is the Lib Dems and Tories who are closest, for example in their zeal for decentralising power and defending civil liberties (the latter a relatively new departure for the Tories, who used to be thought of as the authoritarian party).
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Thus, under the veil of pursuing social justice, executive power has been strengthened at the expense of civil society.
In Aleppo, the group has replaced failed civil institutions: its members run the police force, the power station, and a Sharia court, which has sentenced people to lashings.
In October the Polish government passed a law to give politicians greater power to appoint top civil servants, and scrapped the independent civil-service office.
The reality is that Chavez has designed a model of "totalitarian democracy" where he has used state resources to gain political power at the expense of civil society and where petro-dollars have allowed him to buy the hearts and votes of people who have chosen to ignore the fact that they have less representation, less dignity, and fewer rights.
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The Times welcomes Tory plans to give ministers more power over Whitehall, despite the "alarm" of civil servants.
Once a constitutional government is restored, France -- the former colonial power in Mali -- will resume military and civil cooperation with Mali, according to the French foreign ministry.
So if the goal is more civil discourse on a national level, we all might consider returning power to the states, thus rendering Washington, D.
Indeed, some Conservatives regard the calibre of civil servants as a moot point, as the party's plans to devolve power to local government and community groups will diminish the amount of work done by Whitehall anyway.
And the very process of giving power away requires civil servants to have certain skills, such as contracting with private and voluntary providers.
In 1964, the commerce clause formed part of the basis for the Civil Rights Act, and the Court upheld the argument that the clause grants Congress the power to prohibit racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants.
The Progressives who designed the city's quirky charter, back in 1925, thought the best way to prevent corruption was to hand as much power as possible to councillors, civil servants and local bigwigs: anybody but the mayor.
On controversial issues including abortion, affirmative action, civil rights, the death penalty, and federal power, among others he controlled the outcome of cases.
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