Since he holds that the power to act is always accompanied with the power to exert that power, it follows that the only entities that can have power are those who are capable of engaging in the peculiar sort of mental effort with which we are all familiar from our own case.
Those who have the most power whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress or the president of the United States must decide how to exert that power; for corruption or for good.
Ultimately, the market will determine what will succeed and what will not, but it cannot exert that power unless the choices are put before people.
Lisicki knocks the beans off the ball and has always been a damned hard opponent on her day but what has changed over the last six months is that she now is able to exert more control over that power, especially on the big points.
Taking a cue from ordinary language, he holds that it is a contradiction to say that an entity has the power to do something, and exerts that power, and yet the effect fails to come about.
Reid writes, "In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose" (Letter to James Gregory, in Correspondence 174).
With that power base, he exerted considerable influence over the democratically elected governments that replaced his iron-fisted rule.
That power cannot be exerted except with due regard to other provisions of the constitution, particularly those embodying the fundamental guaranties of life, liberty, and property.
From that power base they came to exert a strong influence on financial and diplomatic administration.
That is a question being posed by Rebecca MacKinnon, an Internet scholar at the New America Foundation, who argues that private corporations are exerting excessive power over the Internet and should have that power checked.
In his "Considerations on Representative Government," Mill wrote: The power in society which has any tendency to convert itself into political power is not power quiescent, power merely passive, but active power; in other words, power actually exerted; that is to say, a very small portion of all the power in existence.
