Waiting to buy food in such lines has become routine since the authorities asserted state control over the food-distribution industry.
However, these asserted state interests, which are not insignificant in themselves, are advanced either not at all or by complete accident by the maximum grant regulation.
That proposition is unexceptionable, and it has been applied in various cases that have found insufficient the asserted state interests in preventing publication of truthful, lawfully obtained information.
When two federal courts ordered it removed because it violated the separation of church and state, he refused, asserting "state sovereignty".
At another end of the political spectrum, Mrs. Kirchner's nationalization plan drew support from Venezuela, where President Hugo Chávez has asserted state control over dozens of companies, including huge oil projects, in recent years.
The caucus agenda included balancing the budget without increasing taxes, securing the border and ending illegal immigration, asserting state sovereignty and requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls.
The caudillo in Mexico City had ruled Nuevo Leon and Coahuila since 1855 under the Plan of Monterrey, a constitution that asserted state sovereignty and maintained a militia independent from federal control.
Legislators in the governing coalition, the Broad Front, have argued that the legislation forms part of a tradition in Uruguay of asserting state control over certain areas of the economy and searching for progressive solutions to social problems.
The fear is that it may now escalate into open warfare.Meanwhile, in an apparent effort to assert state control, warplanes have bombed Shura Council bases on the outskirts of the town.
It is quite another to flout the conclusion of the State's Supreme Courtand, so far as appears, of the state legislature as wellthat imposition of a particular requirement is not at all inconsistent with the asserted state interests.
