Federalists deplore the proposed overriding of a core competence of states.
America, such conservatives say, took a wrong turn when Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt fell under the spell of progressive ideas and expanded the scope of government beyond both the founders' imaginings and the competence of any state.
With the Western economies in a profound mess and with China's startling rise, the competence of the state can no longer be ignored.
The competence of the state is little talked about or really valued in the West, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world.
In some ways, the ongoing disputes with China in the South China Sea represent a critical juncture, testing the competence of Philippine state institutions and the patriotism of its citizenry.
Intelligence is the exclusive competence of member states.
While recognising the competence of Member States for their taxation systems, we should step up our efforts to combat tax evasion and tax fraud, so that all contribute their fair share," he said in a statement shortly after his election last year.
Yet, the competence of these States to redact such sensitive information is manifest; domestic U.S. courts do so all the time to great effect.
Their argument was that NIH applications require evidence of principal investigator competence, state-of-the-art methods, equipment, laboratory environment, publication of their findings in peer-reviewed journals, and are challenged by independent efforts to replicate their findings.
It deals with issues that are firmly in the competence of each Member State, and should so remain.
