This was especially the case with regards to its management of state finances, as only it could authorize the disbursal of public monies from the treasury.
Should that prove insufficient, though, it could authorize the use of military force.
Several budget analysts said the proposal appeared as if it could authorize back-door borrowing.
But it could authorize European nations, along with Canada and Mexico, to take counter-action American companies or executives.
Here we are to consider merely, whether Congress authorized the method of proof and of adjudication pursued, and whether it could authorize it, consistently with the Constitution.
"If our board thought we would get a clear answer on Monday, it could authorize a payment on Monday," she said.
In other words, if Congress had power to make the acts which led to the damage illegal, it could authorize a recovery for the damage, although the latter was suffered wholly within the boundaries of one state.
He called graduated rates the beginning of "unmasked confiscation". Tax historian Randolph Paul pointed out that many Democratic newspapers like the New York Times, Brooklyn Eagle and Boston Globe opposed an income tax because it could authorize inquisitorial power to pry into people's private lives.
If Puerto Rico had the same bankruptcy powers that the 50 states enjoy, it could authorize those companies to go to court to reduce their debts.
Once the governor's office determines that all requirements and criteria have been met, it could authorize the release of the grant to the municipality to procure a grant contract with the vendor to reduce gun violence.
Congress must authorize all government debt, but could do that with a blanket authorization, good until such time as they rescinded it, or could authorize debt up to a limit that is unlikely to be reached for decades or centuries.
