• "I think that reducing the power of the executive is long overdue, " Mr Chope said.

    BBC: Tory MP calls for fewer ministers and peers

  • Yet the details of the government's reforms betray its determination not to reduce the power of the executive.

    ECONOMIST: British constitution

  • And you also said that, just again, that the President is just trying to protect the constitutionally enshrined power of the executive power to make decisions independently.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Second, it recommends that the power of the executive board be increased relative to that of national central-bank governors, who are more likely to be influenced by national interests.

    ECONOMIST: European Central Bank

  • "In Russia changes in parliamentary election laws and a shift to the appointment, instead of election, of regional governors further strengthened the power of the executive branch, " the report says.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | US raps Russia and Saudi rights

  • Finally, the transnationalists urge that the power of the executive branch should be constrained by judicial review and the concept of international comity, while the nationalists tend to believe that federal courts should give extraordinarily broad deference to executive power in foreign affairs.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Lawfare and Obama's transnationalist

  • Morsy's move, which has concentrated power in the hands of the executive, is a continuation of the power struggles between Morsy's Muslim Brotherhood -- the Islamist movement that is Egypt's most powerful political force and won nearly half the seats in parliamentary elections -- and the remnants of the military-dominated establishment of the Mubarak years.

    CNN: Q & A: What's driving Egypt's unrest?

  • Since the new Correa-backed constitution has weakened the institutions of government and placed greater control and power in the hands of the executive, it remains to be seen what steps Correa will take in the future.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ecuador's Correa until 2017?

  • By their failure to promote and uphold the balance of power among the executive, the legislative and the judiciary.

    CNN: Clinton's acquittal

  • For nigh 100 years the power and threat of the executive branch was subdued, thereafter it began to grow.

    FORBES: We Must Stop Treating the President As Our Savior

  • In a country where so much power is concentrated in the hands of the executive, checking that power must be one of the primary aims of constitutional reform.

    ECONOMIST: British constitution

  • Federalism, a divided legislature, temporary investiture of power in the executive and the procedural rules of governance all promote stasis.

    FORBES: Why The Tea Party Is Essential: Liberty, Prosperity And Justice

  • Thus, there is a great chance here that the political logic of the executive power be reflected in the constitutional and legal logic of the judiciary.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • It is just that his people recognise that real change will require much more wide-ranging constitutional reforms: presidential term limits, a devolution of power from the executive to the judiciary and parliament, fair parliamentary elections, and the end of laws that shackle freedoms and sanction government thuggery.

    ECONOMIST: Mubarak calls for a less pharaonic future | The

  • Fourteen Members of Congress have filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs' position that the waiver power authorized by Congress in 2005 is an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the executive.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Green Borders

  • The formation of the Council follows the establishment of Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive in the Assembly after former US senator George Mitchell helped unionists and republicans to come to a deal on devolution and arms decommissioning.

    BBC: Historic day for north-south council

  • It identifies as major issues the rise of executive power at the expense of Parliament, the frustration of political activists who feel they are ignored by party leaderships and the lack of differentiation between the parties.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • It will be easy to find plaintiffs who can argue that the line-item veto is an unconstitutional shift of power from the legislative branch to the executive branch, and that Clinton's exercise of it has harmed them.

    CNN: Back To Court For Line-Item Veto

  • Menem was accused of authoritarianism, as the executive power gained ground at the expense of the legislative and the judiciary.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The meaning of Kirchner's recent defeat

  • Over the past decades the vast expansion of executive power through the homeland security program has also increased the possibilities for wrongdoing.

    CNN: What happened to Obama's promise?

  • The arms talks are a key requirement of the deal between unionists and republicans which allowed the formation of the power-sharing Assembly executive on Thursday.

    BBC: Adams: British troops out

  • Conrad explained that Senate appropriators consider the conversion of a discretionary program to a mandatory one to be a usurpation of their power by the executive branch.

    NEWYORKER: Money Talks

  • The collapse of the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland in June 1974 after just three months saw MPs back in the Commons debating on the future of the province.

    BBC: When Parliament has been recalled

  • In a perfectly fair world, where people care about both process and outcome, the human rights and specifically the first amendment crowd at places like the American Civil Liberties Union and likeminded institutions, could have been counted on to stand up and denounce the abuse of executive power that stood at the heart of the AIPAC scandal.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A cautionary tale

  • The huge expansion of government and executive power under Mr Bush, and the prosecution of a disastrous war, all unrolled in the wake of those attacks.

    ECONOMIST: Few people will mourn the departure of the 43rd president

  • Some elements in this crisis can indeed be traced back eventually to defects in Britain's system, notably the drift of power away from Parliament to the executive.

    ECONOMIST: Cleaning up Parliament

  • Since eight members of the U.S. Senate -- just two questions -- since eight members of the U.S. Senate wrote the President strongly opposing the possibility of his using executive power to grant amnesty to more than 10 million illegal aliens in the U.S., is the President still planning to extend any such amnesty?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Thus, under the veil of pursuing social justice, executive power has been strengthened at the expense of civil society.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The early release scheme has been one of the most criticised aspects of the peace accord which paved the way for the establishment of a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland.

    BBC: News Online

  • But the unchecked power of its executive is a scandal of a different sort that no self-respecting sleazebuster, still less the great and good Lord Neill, can long ignore.

    ECONOMIST: A very British sleazebuster

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