executive act

The question for future historians is: How well did the chief executive act, given the information available to him at the time?

"In spite of the heavy executive act he likes to put on.

Congressional authorization may be necessary to legitimize many executive acts.

An executive act may be unconstitutional if it amounts to intentional and arbitrary discrimination.

This proposal actually provides for the retention of the regulatory committees and does not allow Parliament the option to challenge an executive act.

Such a dispensation was not, strictly speaking, legislative, but rather a judicial, quasi-judicial or executive act.

In a number of instances the legality of executive acts of my Administration was brought before the courts.

This judgment has to be made before the executive act of securing the suitable accommodation for the applicant can be performed.

A discriminatory law or executive act, on the other hand, is one that contravenes Article 12(1) and hence is unconstitutional.

We must defend the centrality of Parliament, in regard to both delegated acts and executive acts.

The Administrator, who was appointed by the national government for a five-year term, was the official in whose name all provincial executive acts were carried out.

But it says Congress must act formally, not through "legislative silence, stray remarks of individual members" or other things said to amount to "acquiescence" in executive acts.

Popular opinion held that it was the force of Arsanova's personality that subsequently induced Ruslan to clean up his executive act.

I also disagree with the powers given to the Commission to adopt certain technical specifications required for the application of the law by means of an 'executive act'.

She posits that it is preferable for both the "intentional and arbitrary discrimination" test and the "reasonable classification" test to apply to executive acts.

Federalist No. 78, also written by Hamilton, lays the groundwork for the doctrine of judicial review by federal courts of federal legislation or executive acts.

The Housing Executive was established in 1971 by the Housing Executive Act (Northern Ireland).

In answering the second question, the Court of Appeal considered two main issues, namely, the concept of equality and the test to determine if a statute or executive act violates Article 12.

In an early but still controversial opinion (The Paquete Habana), the Supreme Court seemed to say that executive acts are superior to nontreaty rules in United States law.

In addition, the courts possess the power of judicial review to correct or nullify executive acts or decisions which are contrary to the executive's statutory powers or otherwise contravene administrative law principles.

Further, the exercise of the Attorney-General's prosecutorial discretion was an executive act which satisfied the rational nexus test and was therefore not in contravention of Article 12 of the Constitution.

The assumption seems to be that since the pardon is an executive act of mercy - a gift from on high - it can be exercised in whatever manner the President or a state governor deems appropriate.

In her first executive act, Mrs. Arroyo - whose father, Diosdado Macapagal, was president in the 1960's - plans to prohibit all government agencies from doing business with her family, the aides said.

In our dynamic system of government, there is never a "final" resolution to an issue; rather, legislation, executive acts and judicial decisions are all part of an ongoing dialogue about how law and policy issues should be addressed.

There is complete executive supremacy in the legislative process, severely limited opportunities for general debates criticising the government, virtually no opportunities for scrutinising executive acts and making the executive give an account of them.