Sentence examples for constitutional grant from inspiring English sources

The Republican leadership in the Florida Legislature has pledged to select electors on its own, under what appears to be a constitutional grant of plenary power to legislatures.

If, as California Sen. Diane Feinstein says, the Electoral College violates "one person, one vote," doesn't the constitutional grant of two senators to each state also violate "one person, one vote"?

Acting pursuant to its constitutional grant of authority, the Florida Legislature has created a detailed, if not perfectly crafted, statutory scheme that provides for appointment of presidential electors by direct election.

rule that the president, alone, has ALL AUTHORITY OVER WAR -- which is exactly opposite of the constitutional grant that gives that authority to Congress.

However, Congress continued to venture slightly, but significantly, into areas outside the specific constitutional grants".

According to Kurland, "for the most part, Congress enacted statutes that closely tracked the specific constitutional grants of federal criminal authority.

Wishing to ensure that the constituent assembly could finish drafting the new constitution, the president issued an interim constitutional declaration granting himself far-reaching powers.

The county government is a constitutional body granted specific powers by the Constitution of Indiana and the Indiana Code.

Mr. Baker said of the Legislature, "They have an interest here that is a constitutional interest granted to them under Article 2 of the Constitution, and it is not up to me or anybody else to rule that out or rule it in".

The response to Mr Morsi's August decrees was by and large favourable, but there was widespread anger on 22 November when, with the Islamist-dominated constituent assembly tasked with writing a new constitution was on the brink of collapse, the president issued an interim constitutional declaration granting himself far-reaching powers.

The axe: a constitutional amendment granting Congress a veto over Supreme Court decisions.