To pass in a lame-duck session major legislation so unpopular that Democrats had no chance of passing it in regular session -- after major Democratic losses signifying a withdrawal of the mandate implicitly granted in 2008 -- would be an egregious violation of elementary democratic norms.
ReprintsChina's Communist bosses rely on Maoist notions of ethical leadership and, implicitly, on a Confucian mandate supposedly bestowed by heaven for their righteousness.
Attacked in Saturday's debate by five other Republican hopefuls over inflammatory remarks he made about the Middle East, his previous support for a health care mandate and, implicitly, his two divorces, Mr. Gingrich parried each one while keeping his cool.
The informants stated that depending on the type of policy and government mandate, other political influences implicitly affect policy.
Every President since Wilson has at least implicitly adopted this theory, and the Presidential mandate has become enshrined in our national politics.
One side contended that the filibuster is unconstitutional because the Constitution, by mandating supermajorities in some cases, implicitly forbids them in others; because the Constitution requires only fifty-one senators to be in the room to do normal business; and because requiring sixty votes makes nonsense of the Vice-President's constitutional role as a Senate tie-breaker.
"I'm handing in my mandate, I'm resigning and implicitly my government too," he said.
A review of international ethical guidelines and international humanitarian law will illustrate instances where an advocacy role is not explicitly mandated in a relevant instrument but implicitly demanded by the principle of beneficence.
But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience,--these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Ryan also says in his speeches that winning this election would endow him and Romney with the "moral authority" and the "mandate" to enact their agenda and move the country, implicitly, to the right.
As even some liberals implicitly concede, a health care decision that strikes down the individual mandate while leaving the rest of the law intact would not necessarily undo the legislation, and might even leave it on a more secure political footing.
