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Example sentences for "executive power"

  • A king is needed to give force to executive power.

  • Executive power in each is vested in the monarch; legislative power in the monarch and a Landtag, or assembly.

  • Executive power is vested in the grand-duke, with the customary provision for ministerial countersignature.

  • Executive power in the kingdom is vested solely in the crown, although in practice it devolves to a large degree upon the council of ministers.

  • This opinion was undoubtedly formed under the fear of corruption and the jealousy of executive power, chiefly produced--and justly produced--by the example of what had long existed in England.

  • Executive power vested in the King, and the responsible heads of 7 departments; legislative, in the Chamber of Representatives.

  • Government an hereditary constitutional monarchy; executive power in the hands of the King and Council of State; legislative rests with Storthing, or Great Court.

  • Executive power vested in King and responsible ministers: legislative rests conjointly with the King and a Parliament, composed of a Senate, appointed for life; and a Chamber of 508 Deputies, elected by the people for five years.

  • Executive power is vested in a King; legislative, in King, Senate and House of Representatives.

  • It has been supposed, that the effects of this might probably be, in time, to break up the soil into such small subdivisions, that the proprietors would be too poor to resist the encroachments of executive power.

  • Name some of the Presidents who were notable for the vigorous exercise of executive power.

  • The framers of the Constitution, however, with their distrust of executive power, wisely left the whole matter to Congress.

  • This great address not only ended the Republican attack upon the Administration, but settled American law as to Executive power in carrying out extradition treaties.

  • The executive power of the United States is completely lodged in the President," with only those exceptions made by the Constitution, as that of declaring war.

  • In ordering United States troops to the scene of the disturbance without an application of the Legislature or Governor of Illinois he accomplished a fresh extension of executive power without an infraction of the Constitution.

  • It is undeniable that his character is stamped on the presidential office, and his occupancy of it is a distinct mark in the history of executive power.

  • England will perish when the legislative power grows more corrupt than the executive power.

  • The cabinet should not wield the executive power as well as the legislative power.

  • Unless the monarch himself retains the executive power, there is no liberty, for liberty depends upon each of the three powers being kept entirely separate.

  • All executive authority to be exercised under it was granted to the President, and he was hence spoken of by the writers of the "Federalist" as the sole depositary of executive power.

  • The executive power of the Government was vested in a President.

  • Congress can not, therefore, take out of the hands of the executive department the custody of the public property or money without an assumption of executive power and a subversion of the first principles of the Constitution.

  • The resolution of the Senate as originally framed and as passed, if it refers to these acts, presupposes a right in that body to interfere with this exercise of Executive power.

  • An assumption of executive power by the Republicans in any mode not recognized by the Constitution was discouraged, and a reliance on the next Congress was preferred in any case short of actual usurpation.

  • I begin to think that one of the causes of my opposition to a great extension of Executive power is that constitutional indolence which, notwithstanding some share of activity of mind, makes me more fit to think than to act.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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