"The mere potential for the exercise of that power casts a chill, a chill the First Amendment cannot permit if free speech, thought, and discourse are to remain the foundation of our freedom, " Justice Kennedy added.

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But now that they exercise such a large slice of power in the region, the Lib Dems are often the establishment.

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He disagreed on whether it was a valid exercise of Congressional power, however, in essence accusing the other two of punting.

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This sense of having a mandate encouraged Morales to exercise power based on the simple principle of majority rule.

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If the government is going to have a monopoly over the distribution of canned goods, it should exercise that power in a way that minimizes disruptions to the broader economy.

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Indeed, the government argues that the existing mandate should be upheld as a valid exercise of the taxing power.

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Yet even if the government loses that argument, there is little doubt that Congress has the authority to fix the law to make it a valid exercise of the taxing power.

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He lead a participatory exercise that made visible the power of radical management techniques, showing them to be vastly superior to traditional management when it comes to performance improvement.

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We have never held that any exaction imposed for violation of the law is an exercise of Congress' taxing power even when the statute calls it a tax, much less when (as here) the statute repeatedly calls it a penalty.

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