Sentence examples similar to Exercise supreme power from inspiring English sources
The man who exercised supreme power over the country for almost 30 years is now in the dock along with his sons and other former officials, charged with corruption and other crimes.
That the derived inferior power can by no construction or pretence assume or exercise a power to subvert the principal supreme power.
The rules whereby the inferior power is to be exercised are to be constituted by the principal supreme power, and can be altered, suspended and abrogated by the same and no other.
Well, we all know that democracy is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them, directly or indirectly, through representatives.
According to Merriam Webster dictionary (//www.m-w.com) democracy is "a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections".
No authority can exist or be exercised but what shall appear to be ordained and created by the principal supreme power or by derived inferior power which the principal supreme power hath authorized to create such authority.
Under the U.S. Constitution, the supreme power supposedly belongs to "the People," but the absence of forbearance among those who exercise power in the People's name threatens to render "the People" effectively powerless.
His period of supreme power was short.
His progress toward supreme power was extraordinarily rapid.
Supreme power was vested in a bicameral National Assembly.
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