Sentence examples for constitutional executive from inspiring English sources

Her nomination to a constitutional executive office would cost McCain the votes of his party's hardened racists and incorrigible misogynists.

To be sure, Lincoln made extraordinary use of his powers during wartime, including suspending the writ of habeas corpus, shutting down opposition newspapers, arresting antiwar agitators and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, all of which seemed to go well beyond the more limited powers of a constitutional executive.

"At this point POTUS is absolutely right to use constitutional executive action authority to build the wall and secure our border.

The president could bring closure to this injustice through his constitutional executive power of clemency, creating a review board to reevaluate old crack cocaine sentences so they are consistent with the new law.

The Bush administration's modus operandi since 9/11 has been to militarize our government: Mr. Bush has become the commander in chief before he is the president of the United States, and extra-constitutional executive powers (think of the National Security Agency wiretapping) are justified by security concerns in our perpetual "state of war".

And everyone has known for over a year that the debt extension would come due in early 2013 -- hardly a dire emergency requiring extra-constitutional executive powers.

Norway is a constitutional monarchy; executive power, while nominally held by the monarch, is exercised by a council of ministers led by the prime minister.

Despite constitutional reform, executive power remains concentrated around the monarchy, not least in the realms of security, the military and religion.

The country was to remain a republic whose president would retain considerable constitutional and executive power; a government based on the electoral performance of select political parties would run the country by means of a professional civil service, while the judiciary would enforce laws passed by parliament the National Assembly.

Some are issued in the president's constitutional chief executive capacity, and set forth managerial requirements for specified federal operations.

If the Obama Justice Department wants to defend renditions as constitutional on "executive privilege" and "national security" grounds, human rights groups should perhaps meet them in court and seek a better outcome.