Mr. McCain's citizenship was established by statutes covering the offspring of Americans abroad and laws specific to the Canal Zone as Congress realized that Americans would be living and working in the area for extended periods.
If the Florida court revises its ruling to make clear it was merely interpreting established election statutes and was not rewriting the laws after the election in possible violation of federal law, there is unlikely to be any federal issue that would warrant further review by the United States Supreme Court.
But those rivalries are divided by political lines established by statutes, and the lineages of families that dare not cross a state line.
The most plausible comparison is with Ireland's Press Council, which is recognised in statute but was not established by statute.
That change, he said, established a "statute of limitations" for rent overcharge actions.
In 1866 a hydrographic office was established by statute, and in 1962 it was renamed the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office.
The judicial branch is composed of a Supreme Court of Justice, whose magistrates are selected by the National Assembly, and of other tribunals as established by statute.
It must be established by statute to secure its independence and its public purpose must be defined with great clarity to ward off subsidy seekers.
He noted, too, that even the right to be a conscientious objector to military service was established by statute and theoretically could be overturned by Congress.
In France, by contrast, the constitution for the current regime, the Fifth Republic (founded in 1958), says that rights are established by statute — by laws passed by the Assemblée Nationale (the parliament), which is to say by simple majority.
Established by statute, its formal remit does not to extend to examining the fiscal plans of the opposition, and it would require the agreement of the coalition itself for the remit to be extended.
