Sentence examples for expressly grants from inspiring English sources

Because neither the Fourteenth Amendment nor any other provision of the Constitution expressly grants Congress the power to [p255] take away that citizenship once it has been acquired, petitioner contended that the only way he could lose his citizenship was by his own voluntary renunciation of it.

Afroyim's counsel argued that since "neither the Fourteenth Amendment nor any other provision of the Constitution expressly grants Congress the power to take away [U.S.] citizenship once it has been acquired... the only way [Afroyim] could lose his citizenship was by his own voluntary renunciation of it".

King Edgar (reigned 959 975) expressly granted local autonomy to the Danes.

Authorization to testify or produce documents is limited to authority expressly granted by the Council.

Thus, with the exception of free movement rights, the citizenship provisions expressly granted only political rights.

But, if the Constitution had intended to give to Congress so delicate a power, it would have been expressly granted.

Title to islands remains in the United States, unless expressly granted along with the stream bed or otherwise.

A trustee has such powers as are expressly granted by the trust instrument, are implicit in it, or, as in England, are conferred by statute.

McCulloch v. Maryland 1819 Established that Congress possesses all "implied powers" appropriate to the exercise of the powers expressly granted to it in the U.S. Constitution.

The statement continued: "Publishers acquire only the rights that they bargain for; authors retain rights they have not expressly granted to publishers.

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