This law cancels the constitutional functions of the government".
"I would say vTaiwan is about civil society learning the functions of the government and, to a degree, collaborating," Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, told me during a visit to her office.
At the courthouse nearby, a fledgling authority is taking over the functions of the government and helping to plan a military response to Colonel Qaddafi's brutal suppression of the uprising.
The functions of the government at the local level were usurped by the state government until 1988, when the federal government decided to fund local government organizations directly and allowed them for the first time to function effectively.
And he has that evidence to prove a Russian conspiracy in "impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016". That's a mouthful, but it captures the scope of the criminal case.
The House in recent days has passed a number of bills funding various popular functions of the government, including FEMA, as public complaints have mounted, but the White House and Democratic-controlled Senate have rejected that piecemeal approach, demanding that the entire government be funded.
