In effect, Brennan is arrogating to himself authority and responsibility that is officially lodged elsewhere.
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"We have repeatedly seen India arrogating to itself the role of judge, jury and executioner," the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement.
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That is arrogating to oneself a power to do things to other people that was not part of the deal when you were entrusted with that information in the first place.
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When stories based on "intercepted communications" blast across the wires, liberals rarely pause to consider the implications of unelected spooks arrogating to themselves the power to directly undermine the elected president.
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The courts have helped by stripping some opposition MPs of their seats and by arrogating to themselves the final say on the impeachment of the president, in apparent contradiction of the constitution.
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" According to his Hernández opinion, "when a court recognizes an implied claim for damages on the ground that doing so furthers the 'purpose' of the law, the court risks arrogating legislative power.
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In the early 19th century the country was well on the way to a quasi-parliamentary political system in which Congress dominated the executive, even arrogating to congressional caucuses the right to nominate presidential candidates.
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Expressions of relief over Mr. Trump's decision that do not also take him to task for arrogating this power to himself tacitly affirm a form of government at odds with the principles of our constitutional republic.
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And as for what is in this infant's best interests, society must think twice before arrogating to itself the power to override the assessment of parents and determine that their child is better off dead than alive.
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But, if he's destroying all the norms, and destroying all the practices, and destroying the laws, and arrogating all power to the presidency so that the people through Congress have nothing to say, that's a very different crisis.
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These factors are unprecedented on planet Earth: We know from the fossil record, by absence of evidence, that no large-bodied animal has ever been nearly so abundant as humans are now, let alone so effective at arrogating resources.
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Noting that the capital punishment debate in the United States had been deliberately left open by the Founders, Scalia concluded "by arrogating to himself the power to overturn that decision, Justice Breyer does not just reject the death penalty, he rejects the Enlightenment."135 S. Ct. at 2750 (Scalia, J., concurring).
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Though Antonelli has been criticized for arrogating to the papacy too arbitrary a civil power, a perusal of his letter to the bishops of Ireland reveals a more tolerant spirit than is generally attributed to him. Possessed of a rich library, he was the friend and protector of letters, and had as librarian, the learned Francesco Cancellieri. He also acquired some fame as an archaeologist.
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Of course, the Framers > created no autocrat capable of arrogating any power unto himself at any > time. Vinson referenced Federalist No. 70's arguments about energy in the executive to argue that the president should be allowed to seize private property in a time of national crisis.Westin, Alan F. The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Case: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. V. Sawyer, the Steel Seizure Decision. Columbia University Press, 1990.
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Canute issued edicts arrogating to himself the ownership of common land, the right to the goods from shipwrecks, and the right to inherit the possessions of foreigners and kinless folk. He also issued laws to protect freed thralls as well as foreign clerics and merchants. These policies led to discontent among his subjects, who were unaccustomed to a king claiming such powers and interfering in their daily lives.
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"Breen 36 One of Boyle's chief responsibilities as Attorney-General was to enforce Alberta's recently enacted prohibition. This proved difficult, as the law was widely disparaged—not least by judges, who reputedly presided over liquor trials while hungover. In 1921, Boyle estimated that bootleggers were profiting from prohibition to the tune of C$7 million. He was denounced by supporters of prohibition for his ineffectiveness at enforcing it, and by its opponents for "arrogating to himself the powers of a czar.
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103-28 # Marston, in turn, replied with Jack Drum's Entertainment (1600), a play acted by the Children of Paul's, satirizing Jonson as Brabant Senior, a cuckold. # In Cynthia's Revels (1600), acted by the Children of the Chapel, Jonson satirizes both Marston and Dekker. The former is thought to be represented by the character Hedon, a "light voluptuous reveller," and the latter by Anaides, a "strange arrogating puff." # Marston next attacked Jonson in What You Will (1601), a play most likely acted by the Children of Paul's.
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Campbell, p. 69 Thus, Alexander's taking of his mother's advice to not get involved in battle, his dishonorable and unsoldierly methods of dealing with the Germanic threat, and the relative failure of his military campaign against the Persians were all deemed highly unacceptable by the soldiers.Campbell, p. 69 Indeed, Maximinus was able to overthrow Alexander by "harping on his own military excellence in contrast to that feeble coward".Campbell, p. 69 Yet by arrogating the power to dethrone their emperor, the legions paved the way for a half-century of widespread chaos and instability.
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A Summary History of New-England is an 18th-century history book regarding New England by the American author, Hannah Adams. It was first published in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1799, by Herman Mann and James H. Adams, and followed her A View of Religions, which was published in 1784. Not arrogating to herself the honors of an original historian, Adams exonerated herself from a large share of responsibility, and at the same time earned considerable merit by the judicious use which she has made of the labor of others. She included or abridged their accounts, as occasion demanded.
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Randolph Silliman Bourne (; May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the young radicals living during World War I. His articles appeared in journals including The Seven Arts and The New Republic. Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work "The State," discovered after he died. The essay is the source of the well-known phrase "war is the health of the state," by which Bourne lamented governments' success at arrogating authority and resources during conflicts.
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On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read a statement to the press: > The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which > misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of > the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the > artists what art should be the Institute runs counter to the original > purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to > assimilate contemporary innovation. Among the other speakers were Karl Knaths, H. W. Janson, Zerbe, Levine, and Aronson.
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Creel 1970, What Is Taoism?, 87, 103, 106-107, 115 This old-guard faction, probably feeling that Jia was a threat to their own positions, protested when Emperor Wen was considering promoting Jia to a ministerial post, saying that Jia was "young and just beginning his studies, yet he concentrates all his desires on arrogating authority to himself, and has brought chaos and confusion to everything." The emperor, bowing to the faction's pressure, gradually stopped seeking Jia's advice, and in 176 BCE exiled Jia to the southern kingdom of Changsha (roughly corresponding to modern Hunan Province) to serve as Grand Tutor to its young king Wu Chan (; r. 178157 BCE).
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According to Díaz, Fajardo "neither did nor commanded other than what his favorite desired." Venegas grossly abused his power, arrogating to himself all the grandeur due to the governor alone, and enforcing his will against his enemies (religious as well as laymen) by violence, imprisonment, confiscation and exile. According to Bishop-elect of Nueva Segovia José Millán de Poblete, > Already so great was the number of those thrown into prisons, dungeons, and > obscure cells, that all the places set aside by justice for the punishment > of criminals were filled; and other new and frightful places, sites, and > methods of delayed punishment were found inside the city. And when these > places were also full, it was necessary to divide the prisoners among the > provinces, villages, and presidios of these islands.
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"By rewriting that statutory scheme—thus arrogating to itself the power to decide the manner in which Florida's electors are chosen—the Florida Supreme Court substituted its judgment for that of the legislature in violation of Article II. Such a usurpation of constitutionally delegated power defies the Framers' plan." Paragraph 2 in Argument, Part I. Gore argued that Article II presupposes judicial review and interpretation of state statutes, and that the Florida Supreme Court did nothing more than exercise the routine principles of statutory construction to reach its decision. "Even apart from the absurd theory that McPherson requires everything relevant to a state's process for choosing electors to be packed into a specialized presidential electoral code, the very premise of petitioner's argument is fatally flawed because the Florida Legislature re-enacted the contest statute in 1999 against the settled background rule that decisions of circuit courts in contest actions are subject to appellate review." Paragraph 5 in Argument, Part I.
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On 22 August 1973, the Christian Democrats and the National Party members of the Chamber of Deputies voted 81 to 47, a resolution that asked the authorities"The President of the Republic, Ministers of State, and members of the Armed and Police Forces". to "put an immediate end" to "breach[es of] the Constitution...with the goal of redirecting government activity toward the path of Law and ensuring the Constitutional order of our Nation, and the essential underpinnings of democratic co-existence among Chileans". The resolution declared that the Allende Government sought "to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the State...[with] the goal of establishing a totalitarian system", claiming it had made "violations of the Constitution...a permanent system of conduct". Essentially, most of the accusations were about the Socialist Government disregarding the separation of powers, and arrogating legislative and judicial prerogatives to the executive branch of government.
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In his first parliamentary intervention he answered Gil-Robles--the founder of CEDA--who had just spoken out against all totalitarian forms of government for arrogating to themselves the attributes of God and crushing the personality of the individual: > We believe that the state does not have to justify its behaviour at every > turn, just as no individual or social class does, in so far as it holds to a > guiding principle all the time. All the while the state is made out to be > God by Rousseau's idea that the state, or the will of those it represents, > is always right. What makes the state like God is the belief that the will > of the state, embodied by absolute monarchs in the past and now by the > popular vote, is always right. The monarch may have erred; the popular vote > may err because neither truth nor goodness derives from an act or assertion > of the will.
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Amos reproduced and criticised the proceedings at some of these trials, and denounced the state of things as one "to which no British colony had hitherto afforded a parallel, private vengeance arrogating the functions of public law; murder justified in a British court of judicature, on the plea of exasperation commencing years before the sanguinary act; the spirit of monopoly raging in all the terrors of power, in all the force of organisation, in all the insolence of impunity". John Fortescue's De Laudibus Legum Angliæ: The Translation into English Published A.D. MDCCLXXV (1825), which Amos edited In 1825 Amos edited for the syndics of the University of Cambridge John Fortescue's De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, appending the English translation of 1775, and original notes, or rather dissertations, by himself. These notes are full of antiquarian research into the history of English law. His name is familiar in the legal world through the treatise on the law of fixtures, which he published in concert with Joseph Ferard in 1827 when the law on the subject was wholly unsettled, never having been treated systematically.
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But Harvey's dilemma over support for the government, as distinct from his religious beliefs, surfaced when he and another Liberal Quaker MP, Arnold Stephenson Rowntree, helped to draft the section of the Military Service Act 1916 that provided for the possibility of conscientious objectors being required to perform work of national importance as a condition of exemption from service in the army. There was disagreement among Quakers about the sort of service, if any, which conscientious objectors should be asked to do, and Harvey and Rowntree were accused of arrogating to themselves the right to specify what objectors might do and of misrepresenting to the authorities the extent to which they could speak for Quaker opinion.Nicholas Griffin (ed.), The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914–1970; Routledge, 2002 pp60-62 He also served as a member of the Pelham Committee (formally, the Committee on Work of National Importance), the body charged in March 1916 with trying to find suitable civilian occupations for conscientious objectors prepared to undertake the work of national importance he had helped to be written into the Military Service Act.
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