Sentence examples similar to vested declaration from inspiring English sources
James Madison, hailed as the "father of the Constitution," said: "There be prefixed to the Constitution a declaration, that all power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people.
Mr. Caldwell said, that the Vice-President is made a part of the legislative body, although there was an express declaration, that all the legislative powers were vested in the Senate and House of Representatives, and that he would be glad to know how these things consisted together.
Brutus continued with an implication directed against the Constitution's framers: Ought not a government, vested with such extensive and indefinite authority, to have been restricted by a declaration of rights?
We do so in the face of the declaration in Article I of the United States Constitution that "all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States".
The Declaration of Rights begins by stating the simple but profound tenet that rights and privileges are vested in the individual.
Funds are vested immediately.
"We have vested interests.
The problem: vested interest.
Yesterdays Lords debate about vested / declaration of interests springs to mind!
And the declaration vests much of the power to shape Egypt's next permanent charter in the highly conservative judges left in place after decades of authoritarianism.
