The Constitution grants the House the power to impeach " The President, the Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States.

The validity of a ratification that a state first grants and then later purports to rescind, and of the subsequent ratification of an amendment which that state previously rejected and then later assented to, was addressed by Congress in 1868 when Secretary of State William H. Seward issued a proclamation that what we know today as the Fourteenth Amendment was properly ratified and a part of the Constitution.

Article III, Section 2 of the United States Constitution grants original jurisdiction to U. S. federal courts over admiralty and maritime matters, however that jurisdiction is not exclusive and most maritime cases can be heard in either state or federal courts under the " saving to suitors " clause.

Article III of the Puerto Rico Constitution grants all legislative powers of the national government to the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, which is divided into two chambers: a 27 member Senate and a 51 member House of Representatives.

The Constitution grants each state the right to appoint electors in a manner chosen by that state.

The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961, grants the District three electoral votes in presidential elections.

# The Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government.

" Concurring Justice William Johnson was even more emphatic that the Constitution is " altogether in favour of the exclusive grants to Congress of power over commerce.

The federal Senate was unaffected since the Constitution explicitly grants each state two senators.

* Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants citizenship to everyone born in the US and subject to its jurisdiction and protects civil and political rights

Federalism in the United States under the Constitution grants only limited lawmaking power to the federal government, because in U. S. federalism, the states are regarded as the plenary sovereigns.

The Constitution grants numerous powers to Congress.

The Constitution also includes the " Necessary and Proper Clause ", which grants Congress the power to " make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.

The 1992 law of Georgia, reiterated in the 1995 Constitution, grants Abkhaz the status of second official language on the territory of Abkhazia, along with Georgian.

However, although not provided for in the Constitution, according to constitutional custom, the Parliamentary Budgetary Committee has the power to authorise provisional expenditure, regardless of the fact that such expenditure is not formally included in the budget ( such grants are however then marked for adoption in the next forthcoming money bill ).

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2, of the U. S. Constitution grants Congress, and not the president, the power to suspend the right of habeas corpus during a period of rebellion or invasion.

… It results that the power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power found in the Constitution.

The Constitution also grants the president the power to declare a state of emergency during times of war or civil unrest and suspend civil liberties during the emergency as necessary, with the exception of habeas corpus.

The Constitution of Greece grants the power of pardon to the President of the Republic ( Art.

These courts are sometimes also referred to as " Section 96 " courts, in reference to s. 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, which grants the federal government the power to appoint the judges of these courts.

In the United States, the Constitution grants Congress power to secure exclusive rights of authors to their writings, and Congress has exercised that power in a comprehensive statutory scheme, codified in Title 17 of the United States Code.

Appeals from the High Court to the Privy Council are now only theoretically possible in inter se matters if the High Court grants a certificate of appeal under section 74 of the Constitution.

16 of the 1958 Constitution, exercised only once so far ), the executive can issue decrees in areas that the Constitution grants as the responsibility of Parliament only if a law authorizes it to do so.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

The Constitution provides that a " Governor-General appointed by the Queen shall be Her Majesty's representative in the Commonwealth.

The Constitution does not set a term of office, so a Governor-General may continue to hold office for any agreed length of time, however a typical term of office is five years.

The salary of the Governor-General is regulated by the Constitution, which fixed an annual amount of 10, 000 pounds, unless the parliament decides otherwise.

The Constitution states that the salary of the Governor-General may not be increased during his or her term of office.

Section 4 of the Constitution allows the Queen to appoint an Administrator to carry out the role of Governor-General when there is a vacancy.

Sections 61 and 68 of the Constitution provide that the Governor-General exercises certain powers as the Queen's representative.

In 1975, the Queen, through her Private Secretary, wrote that she " has no part in the decisions which the Governor-General must take in accordance with the Constitution ".

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

At the start of Chapter 2 on executive government, the Constitution says " The executive power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Queen and is exercisable by the Governor-General as the Queen's representative ".

In the Constitution, the words " Governor-General-in-council " mean the Governor-General acting with the advice of the Council.

In Australia, however, the powers are explicitly given to the Governor-General in the Constitution ; it is their use that is the subject of convention.

In Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Garran noted that, since the Australian executive is national in nature ( being dependent on the nationally elected House of Representatives, rather than the Senate ), " the Governor-General, as the official head of the Executive, does not in the smallest degree represent any federal element ; if he represents anything he is the image and embodiment of national unity and the outward and visible representation of the Imperial relationship of the Commonwealth.

::: The executive power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Queen and is exercisable by the Governor-General as the Queen's representative, and extends to the execution and maintenance of this Constitution, and of the laws of the Commonwealth.

The Niue Constitution Act vests executive authority in Her Majesty the Queen in Right of New Zealand and the Governor-General of New Zealand.

The Niue Constitution Act 1974 ( NZ ) vests executive authority in Her Majesty the Queen in Right of New Zealand and the Governor-General of New Zealand.

Although not strictly " class action litigation " as it is understood in American law, Public Interest Litigation arose out of the wide powers of judicial review granted to the Supreme Court of India and the various High Courts under Articles 32 and 226 of the Constitution of India respectively.

Based on the theory that the lower courts are creations not of the Constitution but of Congress, and that Congress therefore has wide power in defining and restricting their jurisdiction, the act forbids issuance of injunctions to sustain anti-union contracts of employment, to prevent ceasing or refusing to perform any work or remain in any relation of employment, or to restrain acts generally constituting component parts of strikes, boycotts, and picketing.

The text of the new Constitution was put to a nationwide referendum in August 1992 and approved by a wide margin, despite efforts by federalists to disrupt balloting in several coastal areas.

Further, such inherent powers are vested in the Supreme Court of India in terms of Article 142 of the Constitution of India which confers wide powers on the Supreme Court to pass orders " as is necessary for doing complete justice in any cause of matter pending before it ".

On May 29, 2005, French voters in the referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe turned down the proposed charter by a wide margin.

The political system is defined in the Polish Constitution, which also guarantees a wide range of individual freedoms.

Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Chautauqua County remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county, until 2008 ' when a county wide ballot measure was approved to allow individual liquor sales with a 30 percent food requirement

On 29 May 2005, French voters in the referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe turned down the proposed document by a wide margin.

The wide use of sweeping reserve powers by Adolf Hitler, contained in Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, has often been cited as an important factor in the failure of the Weimar Republic and the decisive attainment of totalitarian power by Nazism in Germany in the 1930s.

Mar del Plata has a wide variety of clubs located by district: the area of Alem street and Irigoyen ( known for its quantity of pubs and nightclubs ) and the coast and Constitution Avenue.

Commager was a liberal interpreter of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which he understood as creating a powerful general government that at the same time recognized a wide spectrum of individual rights and liberties.

The Constitution provides for a wide range of internationally recognized human rights.

As one of the founding fathers in the framing of the Jamaican Constitution in 1961, Mr. Seaga has spearheaded far-reaching constitutional reforms since then, initiating a re-write of the human rights section of the Constitution to provide for a Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms ; creation of the post of Public Defender and curtailment of some of the wide powers of the Prime Minister to provide a better balance of power between the executive and the parliament in the Jamaican system of governance.

Its ecumenical nature can be seen by its inclusion in the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .) and the Book of Order of the world wide Moravian Unity, the Unitas Fratrum.

His government lasted only one year but widely regarded to have promulgated the 1956 Constitution with wide scale public approval.

A new " institutional revolutionary " regime was forming, driven by a wide array of popular movements to carry out the provisions of the 1917 Constitution.

At the same time, he advocated a broad interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, arguing that it protected a wide range of rights not expressly mentioned in the United States Constitution.

He subscribed to the doctrine that the clause not only provided procedural guarantees, but also protected a wide range of fundamental rights, including those that were not specifically mentioned in the text of the Constitution.

Recent temporary exhibits are wide ranging, and include traveling exhibits such as " Lincoln: Constitution and Civil War ," " Finding Your Way: Human Navigation ," and " Theatre de la Mode ," and " The Art of Warner Bros.

The court reasoned that the Constitution of the United States did not explicitly give citizens an affirmative right to vote and that, throughout the history of the nation from the adoption of the Constitution, a wide variety of persons — including women — were recognized as citizens but denied the right to vote.

The abolition of slavery by amendment to the U. S. Constitution and the legacy of an economy damaged by war and social upheaval led many to bitterly oppose a wide variety of national policies.

The dispute over a wide strip running the entire length of the border, caused by unclear wording in the Missouri Constitution on boundaries, misunderstandings over the survey of the Louisiana Purchase, and a misreading of Native American treaties, was ultimately decided by the United States Supreme Court in Iowa's favor.