Unlike under Musharraf, the current parliament is democratically elected and speaks with the authority of the constitution behind it.
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In defending the constitutionality of the Act, the federal government relies upon the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as the enumerated power supposedly delegating authority to the federal government for this regulatory compulsion.
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Only three justices--Chief Justice William Rehnquist , Justice Antonin Scalia , and Justice Clarence Thomas --concluded that the recount order itself violated the Article II of the Constitution, which grants authority to state legislatures, or other provisions of federal law.
The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are.
The leading argument against DOMA all along has been that the federal government lacks authority under the Constitution to create and enforce a definition of marriage different from that of the state in which a couple resides.
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As I mentioned in my remarks, the legal authority is derived from the Constitution as well as the authorization of force by the United States Congress.
Its argument is that by legislating on immigration Arizona has trespassed on federal authority and violated the supremacy clause of the constitution.
This authority supersedes common readings of the Constitution, the law and the customs of governance in America.
Because there, the courts have said under our Constitution that the executive branch's Constitutional authority - to answer the question of one of your previous callers - to protect classified information comes into direct conflict with the criminal defendant's right to a full and complete defense under a number of amendments to our Constitution.
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