He agrees that the people is naturally supreme, but regards it as alienating its Sovereignty by the contract itself, and delegating its power, wholly and for ever, to the government.
In delegatingthe power necessary for the execution of its will, it is abandoning none of its supreme authority.
Six cardinals were appointed universal Inquisitors on either side the Alps, with powers of delegating their authority to other ecclesiastics.
Bull appointing a commission consisting of the three cardinals of Lorraine, Bourbon, and Chatillon, with the power of delegating their authority.
It was said, that it was delegating the power of legislation to the Supreme Executive in one of the most important points that could be mentioned.
In our constitution we have aimed at delegating the necessary powers of government and confining their operation to beneficial purposes.
Yet it may be doubted whether, with the great extension in the sphere of government, Parliament could be suffered to move at its present pace were it not for the growing practice of delegating legislative power.
The term "committee" is used because the members, being few, can do most of the work directly, instead of delegating it to a smaller body.
Fear of delegating authority to any kind of executive, lest the action might lead eventually to another king, was responsible for this mistake.
The long intermissions between sessions of Congress made such delegating imperative.
If our Alaskan fisheries are to be saved from destruction, there must be further legislation declaring a general policy and delegating the authority to make rules and regulations to an administrative body.
There are many methods of delegating these powers to the citizens at large, one of which is to let them execute them by turn, and not altogether, as was done by Tellecles, the Milesian, in his state.
In the Declaration of Independence, the enacting and constituent party dispensing and delegating sovereign power is the whole people of the United Colonies.
Henry II divided his French possessions among his three sons, Geoffrey, Richard, and John, delegating to them such government as existed.
The plan of delegating the duty of determining the guilt or innocence of a suspected person to a dozen members of the community who were sworn to form their opinion without partiality was very different from the earlier systems.
The universal state described above would be an association of sovereign states, each delegating a sufficient measure of its sovereignty to enable the World Federation to act as a responsible planet-wide government.
Don Gaspard de Zuniga y Avellanada, archbishop of Santiago, to be the judge, with the power of delegating his authority.
February, confirmed to Valdes the powers granted to him by his predecessor, and that of delegating confidential persons to proceed in the trial of the Archbishop of Toledo.
Although Valdes persisted in maintaining that he had the right of delegating his powers to prosecute the archbishop, yet as several counsellors, and particularly Baco de Castro, held a contrary opinion, he was obliged to appeal to the Pope.
Ferdinand was not satisfied, but he had to acquiesce and adopt the device of the bishops delegating one of the inquisitors as their representative--an expedient for which precedents can be found in the early Inquisition of Languedoc.
Yet Benedict XIV repeated the assertion of Clement VIII that the popes, in delegating powers to inquisitors, had never intended to interfere with episcopal jurisdiction or to relieve bishops from responsibility.
It predicates a union of some sort--connection with a superior delegating authority, but under that union and subject to that authority its powers of expansion are unlimited.
There is no limit save one to the delegating power of the central authority.
In these and a few other States the people make their own local laws instead of delegatingthis power to representatives.
Why do not the people of the United States make their laws in person, instead of delegating this power to Congress?
Perhaps it may not be amiss to notice that all judicial power is over the rights of the partiesdelegating it, the parties to the compact establishing the government.
The delegation is not confined to power over the authorities of the other departments of the government, and the delegation of judicial power does annul the authority delegating it as far as the power delegated extends.
There is no clause delegating any power to the United States; consequently, all proceedings on the subject have been left to the several States.
The Mikado's decree to his vizier the Kwambaku delegating the conduct of foreign affairs to the Tycoon, a short document of only three lines, was enclosed in it.
To my mind, John Barton would be more in the way of his duty, looking after his daughter, than delegating it up and down the country, looking after every one's business but his own.
Some planters distributed their new purchases among the seasoned households, thus delegating the task largely to the veteran slaves.
If the slaves numbered several score the master and his family might live in leisure comparative or complete, while delegating the field supervision to an overseer, aided perhaps by one or more slave foremen.
Recollect again and again, that almost every state in the union made a determined point of delegating its first characters to this grand convention.
But in delegating foederal powers, another criterion was necessarily introduced: and the congressional authority is to be collected, not from tacit implication, but from the positive grant, expressed in the instrument of union.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delegating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
