The lawsuit is the most recent of many recent cases pitting state power against federal power.

这个案例是许多各州权力与联邦权力较量的事例中最新的一个。

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The bigger question posed by the proxy war in Perak is what happens if the levers of federal power should one day slip from UMNO's hands, as has seemed inevitable since last year's election.

构成霹雳州代理权争斗的最大的问题是，如果某一天州权力的操作杆从巫统的手中滑脱将会发生什么？自从去年的大选后，这看起来是不可避免的。

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The 8-0 objection to President Obama turns on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as "a shocking assertion of federal executive power".

对奥巴马总统的反对以8比0的结果告终，大法官塞缪尔·阿利托在他的反对意见中称，这是“对联邦行政权力令人震惊的断言”。

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"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Congress passed several other bills giving the federal government power to protect the rights of blacks in the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

As a congressman and a senator, he had voted against every attempt to give more power to the federal government.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

When Labor won federal power in 2007, the party ruled in all six states.

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That argument is an abuse of federal power and is unconstitutional, the defense attorneys argue.

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On his website Joel Tenenbaum says that he counter-claimed "asserting abuse of federal power".

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