Sentence examples for rightful power from inspiring English sources

Republicans have rejected their obligation to restrain an unfit executive and lessen the damage by reasserting Congress's rightful power in areas such as trade.

And Jim L. Haggerton, vice chairman of the Information Technology and Communications Committee of the National League of Cities, said the ruling took away municipalities' rightful power.

A person's domain—"the physical, emotional, psychological, and intellectual space it lives in" (338)—defines the range of matters over which the person has rightful power of consent.

Given the entrenchment, any fundamental regulatory or administrative state reform will require Congress to pass legislation to limit agencies and to retrieve its own rightful power.

He sees rightful power as earned and wrongful power as usurped.

These millions of Americans are on the threshold of coming into rightful power.

4, 2012, may well be a day that will live on in infamy, as a day the Congress ceded one of its rightful powers to the executive".

'* * * It is as important to leave the rightful powers of the State in respect to taxation unimpaired as to maintain the powers of the Federal government in their integrity.

Mr. Kilpatrick popularized the doctrine called interposition, according to which individual states had the constitutional duty to interpose their separate sovereignties against federal court rulings that went beyond their rightful powers and, if necessary, to nullify them, an argument traced to the writings of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John C. Calhoun.

Often they emulated the form of Western institutions but failed to achieve their spirit: borrowing eclectically from Western political philosophies and systems of law, they created constitutional frameworks and institutional structures that lacked meaning to their citizens and that failed to generate loyalty or a sense that government exercises rightful powers.

In July 1989, shortly after his appointment to the Office of Legal Counsel, Mr. Barr sent an apparently unsolicited 10-page memo to top agency and department lawyers across the executive branch urging vigilance in pushing back against ways in which Congress might try to intrude on what he saw as the rightful powers of the president.