Lincoln adhered to the Whig theory of the presidency, which gave Congress primary responsibility for writing the laws while the Executive enforced them.

The ELDR Congress is the sovereign body of the ELDR corporation, usually meeting on an annual basis, and as such its primary purposes are to:

Adams thus became Congress ' primary supporter of what would become the Smithsonian Institution.

Esperanto is not the primary language of any geographic region, outside of temporary gatherings ( such as conventions like the World Congress of Esperanto ) and isolated offices ( such as the World Esperanto Association's central office in Rotterdam ).

The primary organs of state power are the National People's Congress ( NPC ), the President, and the State Council.

Although its primary intent was to deal with organized crime, Blakey said that Congress never intended it to merely apply to the Mob.

This clause generally commits to the States the authority to determine the " times, places and manner of holding elections ," which includes the preliminary stages of the election process ( such as a primary election ), while reserving to Congress the authority to preempt State regulations with uniform national rules.

Because Congress has not enacted any on-point regulations, States still retain the authority to regulate the dates on which other aspects of the election process are held ( registration, primary elections, etc.

The issue was whether Congress or the President had primary responsibility.

For two days Congress methodically edited Jefferson's primary document ; having reduced the writing by 1 / 4 ; removed unnecessary wording ; and improved sentence structure.

He lost the Democratic primary election in March 2002 to his former aide, then-Assemblyman Dennis Cardoza, and left Congress at the end of his term in January 2003.

Congress decided it had the primary authority to decide how Reconstruction should proceed, because the Constitution stated the United States had to guarantee each state a republican form of government.

The primary regulatory task of the Second Bank of the United States, as chartered by Congress in 1816, was to restrain the uninhibited proliferation of paper money ( bank notes ) by state or private lenders, which was highly profitable to these institutions.

During the debate over the 2006 extension, some Republican members of Congress objected to renewing the preclearance requirement ( the Act's primary enforcement provision ), arguing that it represents an overreach of federal power and places unwarranted bureaucratic demands on Southern states that have long since abandoned the discriminatory practices the Act was meant to eradicate.

Two primary authorities granted to the Army Corps of Engineers by Congress fall under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

The Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate-290 )-- formerly the Congress Expressway — is the primary highway between Chicago and Oak Park.

Although individual U. S. states have the primary regulatory power with regard to marriage, the United States Congress has occasionally regulated marriage.

In the 1987 Communist Party Congress Zhao declared that China was in " a primary stage of socialism " that could last 100 years.

His ashes were received in Mexico City with much pomp and ceremony, and the same Congress that had been against him for so many years gave him honor as a primary hero of the War of Independence.

The primary organization promoting the New Urbanism in the United States is the Congress for the New Urbanism ( CNU ).

After a period of uncertainty, both Rahul and Priyanka became primary members of the Congress party.

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The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9 / 11 ... the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the non-profit sector and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world.

There are people of other faiths and backgrounds of outstanding integrity who know how to tell the truth .” Real estate developer Peter Monroe, another GOP primary opponent, called on her to quit the race and resign from Congress.

Congress has also created some special judicial bodies known as Article I tribunals to handle some areas of administrative law.

The declaration stated that the Politburo, Orgburo and the Secretariat was taking complete control over the party, and it was these bodies which elected the delegates to the Party Congresses – in effect making the executive branch, the Party Congress, a tool of the Soviet leadership.

Stalin had managed to turn Lenin's hierarchical model on its head ; under Lenin the Party Congress and the Central Committee were the highest decision-making organs, under Stalin the Politburo, Secretariat and the Orgburo became the most important decision-making bodies.

They both also made proposals to Congress and other provincial bodies for carrying out an invasion of Quebec.

De León was not a member of any political party ; lacking a political base but with strong popular support, he launched an ambitious anticorruption campaign to " purify " Congress and the Supreme Court, demanding the resignations of all members of the two bodies.

The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration ( CA ), the Postal Operations Council ( POC ) and the International Bureau ( IB ).

Maces are rarely used today for actual combat, but a large number of government bodies ( for instance the British House of Commons, the U. S. Congress ), universities and other institutions have ceremonial maces and continue to display them as symbols of authority.

They are also responsible for writing an Enrolled Bill Memorandum to the president once a bill is presented by both bodies of Congress for the president ’ s signature.

Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which special interests hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress.

ALEC By-Laws specify that, "... full membership shall be open to persons dedicated to the preservation of individual liberty, basic American values and institutions, productive free enterprise, and limited representative government, who support the purposes of ALEC, and who serve, or formerly serve, as members of a state or territorial legislature, the United States Congress, or similar bodies outside the United States.

The addition of two new ministerial bodies also resulted from the 1986 Congress: a Ministry of Information to replace the Vietnam Radio and Television Commission, and a Commission for Economic Relations with Foreign Countries to act as a coordinating body for foreign aid.

Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in, Gokhale promoted not only primarily independence from the British Empire but also social reform.

Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in, Gokhale promoted not only primarily independence from the British Empire but also social reform.

This difference in elections also results in the only difference in membership between the two bodies, as party organs, such as the party congress and the Central Committee assemble at different times than the National People's Congress.

The federal legislature ( Congress ), state legislatures, and many county and city legislative bodies are divided along party lines and have whips, as well as majority and minority leaders.

We also recommend that a strict and inviolable regard be paid to the wise and judicious councils of the late American Congress, and particularly considering that the experience of almost every day points out to us the danger arising from the collection and movements of bodies of men, who, notwithstanding, we willingly hope would promote the common cause and serve the interest of their country, yet are in danger of pursuing a track which may cross the general plan, and so disconcert those public measures which we view as of the greatest importance.

Various organisations participated in the Convention, such as the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish Green Party, the Communist Party, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, the Small Business Federation and various bodies representing other strands of political opinion as well as civic society in general.

The Government in the Sunshine Act (, ) is a U. S. law passed in 1976 that affects the operations of the federal government, Congress, federal commissions, and other legally constituted federal bodies.

The National Committee went to law and the court ruled that the party is legally administered by the national executive bodies, thus it cannot cease to exist unless the National Congress or the National Committee takes such decision.

Similar practices exist in the state legislatures, and for similar reasons ; for example, in Minnesota, legislative bodies have the same every-three-days meeting requirement that Congress has.

In many deliberative bodies ( e. g. the United States Congress ), questions may be decided by voice vote, but the voice vote does not allow one to determine at a later date which members voted for and against the motion.

He also represented the SDF on bodies including various strike committees and the Trades Union Congress, and at socialist conferences across Europe.

At the national level, the NEA lobbies the United States Congress and federal agencies on behalf of its members and public schools, works with other education organizations and friends of public education, provides training and assistance to its affiliates, and generally conducts activities consistent with the policies set by its elected governing bodies.

Regional standards bodies also exist, such as the European Committee for Standardization ( CEN ), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization ( CENELEC ), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ), and the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements ( IRMM ) in Europe, the Pacific Area Standards Congress ( PASC ), the Pan American Standards Commission ( COPANT ), the African Organization for Standardization ( ARSO ), the Arabic industrial development and mining organization ( AIDMO ), and others.