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 Government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Welsh Assembly Government is the name of the executive branch of Wales, and Scottish Government is the unofficial term to describe the Scottish Executive.
Under modern political theory, government is understood as having three main powers: legislative (the power to make laws), executive (the power to implement laws) and judiciary (the power to judge and apply punishment when laws are broken).
A government is the body that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government   (1410 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Government and Laws of Georgia: Overview
In Georgia the executive branch of government is by far the largest, with 99 percent of the state budget devoted to its activities.
Because local governments are creatures of the state, state law controls their revenue sources.
The Constitution was recognized as the supreme law of the land, but under the federal system certain powers were granted exclusively to the national government (for example, coining money and national defense) or to the states (for example, creating local governments and regulating marriages and divorces).
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1340   (1830 words)

  
 Government Chapter
The President appoints a Cabinet whose members are approved by the Senate in the legislative branch.
At the Federal level, there are three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial.
The next level of government in the United States includes each of the 50 States plus the government of the District of Columbia.
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/government.html   (738 words)

  
 Executive order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To date, U.S. courts have overturned only two executive orders: the aforementioned Truman order, and a 1996 order issued by President Bill Clinton that attempted to prevent the U.S. government from contracting with organizations that had strikebreakers on the payroll.
An executive order is an edict issued by a member of the executive branch of a government, usually the head of that branch.
The Congress may overturn an executive order by passing legislation in conflict with it or by refusing to approve funding to enforce it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order   (750 words)

  
 THE EXECUTIVE ORDER
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
A series of Executive Orders, internal governmental departmental laws, unpassed by Congress, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and the Violent Crime Control Act of 1991, has whittled down Constitutional law substantially.
It was Adams' theory that the only effectual method to secure the rights of the people and promote their welfare was to create an opposition of interests between the members of two distinct bodies (legislative and executive) in the exercise of the powers of government, and balanced by those of a third (judicial).
http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/gvcon5.html   (2114 words)

  
 Executive privilege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Executive privilege is a claim asserted by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to justify withholding of documents and information from other branches of government.
The Supreme Court addressed the executive privilege in United States v.
The concept of executive privilege is a legally murky one, since the Constitution does not mention it anywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_privilege   (434 words)

  
 Executive Privilege (Right or Ruse)?
Executive privilege is the claim made by members of the executive branch of the U.S. government to immunity from congressional investigation and judicial procedures.
In 1996, executive privilege was invoked as the basis for refusing to turn over 2,000 documents to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee as part of the investigation of the Filegate scandal.
The Court characterized executive privilege as a "qualified privilege," that is, one that is enforced in limited cases depending on the circumstances.
http://www.firstliberties.com/exec_privilege.html   (770 words)

  
 Executive Order 11246, As Amended
The Secretary of Labor, or any agency, officer, or employee in the executive branch of the Government designated by rule, regulation, or order of the Secretary, may hold such hearings, public or private, as the Secretary may deem advisable for compliance, enforcement, or educational purposes.
The Secretary of Labor may delegate to any officer, agency, or employee in the Executive branch of the Government, any function or duty of the Secretary under Parts II and III of this Order.
No order for debarment of any contractor from further Government contracts under Section 209(6) shall be made without affording the contractor an opportunity for a hearing.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/statutes/ofccp/eo11246.htm   (2090 words)

  
 Local government in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2000 Parliament passed the Local Government Act 2000 to force councils to move to an executive-based system, either with the council leader and a cabinet acting as an executive authority, or with a directly-elected mayor, either with a mayor and cabinet drawn from the councillors; or a mayor and council manager.
Local authorities nowadays have to appoint a 'Chief Executive Officer', with overall responsibility for council employees, and who operates in conjunction with department heads.
In England and Wales this is exercised under section 74 of the Local Government Act 1972.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_Kingdom   (3151 words)

  
 Executive Orders: A Blueprint for Dictatorship?
Executive Order 13087 on May 28, 1998, which awarded homosexuals "special protection." The order prohibits federal employers from discriminating based on sexual preference." Clinton maintained that this measure did not create any new enforcement rights but merely "provided uniform policy for the federal government to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation."
Executive Order 13083, an attempt to repeal federalism-the constitutional principle that reserves many powers to the states rather than the central government." Clinton's order specifically revoked an earlier order of President Ronald Reagan that affirmed the federalist concept.
Reagan's Executive Order 12612 restored the division of governmental responsibilities between the national government and the states.
http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/Exec.Orders/EOs.Blueprint.for.dictator.html   (2520 words)

  
 What's Really Going On? Executive Orders - Edicts From a Presidential Throne: Part 2 - James Hirsen - Koinonia House
Many of the executive orders in this area grant a significant degree of delegated emergency power to divisions of the executive branch.  These powers are centered in an agency of the federal government known as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  FEMA itself came into existence by means of an executive order.
James Hirsen is a Professor of Law at Trinity Law School and an attorney in Orange County, California.  His new book Government by Decree deals with the subject of executive orders.
Furthermore, reminiscent of the Japanese internment under E.O.9066, other executive orders allow for the involuntary registration and relocation of U.S. citizens into labor groups under government surveillance (E.O. 11004).  The order also grants the executive branch authority to take over labor, services, and manpower resources.
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/235   (1611 words)

  
 Executive Privilege Letter to President Johnson
Washington, D.C. The use of the claim of "Executive privilege" to withhold Government information from the Congress and the public is an issue of importance to those who recognize the need for a fully informed electorate and for a Congress operating as a coequal branch of the Federal Government.
Executive privilege can be invoked only by the President and will not be used without specific Presidential approval.
As a result of President Kennedy’s clear statement, there was no longer a rash of "Executive privilege" claims to withhold information from the Congress and the public.
http://www.johnemossfoundation.org/foi/to_lbj.htm   (340 words)

  
 Institutional Factors in Consolidation of Post-Communist Democracies1
Presidential arbitrage may serve as a counterweight to the ‘party state’ in political systems, where the parliament is responsible for government formation.
Thus, empirical evidence contradicts the hypothesis that mixed forms of government have negative results in terms of democratic consolidation due to alleged increase of the tension between the head of state and parliament.
Executive power of presidents appears as the most powerful explanatory variable; the explanatory power of presidential arbiter authority is weaker, however, being significant at the 0.05 probability level.
http://globalization.icaap.org/content/v3.2/03_beliaev.html   (340 words)

  
 Is the CIA an executive agency? A question.
There are only three brances of government- judicial, legislative and executive.
The U.S. Supreme Court does not have Executive power over the administration of the U.S. Government.
The CIA is under the Executive Branch of government.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1283696/posts   (1243 words)

  
 Executive Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Executive Agency is a British public institution that carries out some part of the executive functions of the United Kingdom government, Scottish Executive, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Executive.
The chief recommendation of the report was to set up Executive Agencies, each headed by a Chief Executive, that would concentrate solely on delivery of policy rather than policy itself.
The report also recommended further powers be devolved from ministers to chief executives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Agency   (616 words)

  
 Comparative government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Depending on the form of government this can be the most powerful branch such as in dictatorships or it can be weaker than the legislative branch as in most democracies.
The working executive are called heads of government (British Prime Minister, Japanese prime minister.) It is their responsibility to enact law, direct the bureaucracy and interact with the legislative branch and in some government interact with the judicial branch.
when there’s a separation of powers, the executive is limited by the other branches of government ussually the legislative and judicial branches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_government   (875 words)

  
 Government of Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Governor of Florida is the chief executive of the Government of the State of Florida, and serves as chairman of the Florida Cabinet.
The Executive Branch of the Government of the State of Florida consists of the Florida Cabinet (which includes the Governor, the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Chief Financial Officer), the Lieutenant Governor, and several Executive Departments, among which are alloted the functions of the Executive Branch.
The governments are also exempt from many local laws and jurisdictions as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Florida   (1419 words)

  
 EO 12834 : ETHICS COMMITMENTS BY EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES
I expressly accept the provisions of that Executive order as a part of this agreement and as binding on me. I understand that the terms of this pledge are in addition to any statutory or other legal restrictions applicable to me by virtue of Federal Government services." Sec.
I acknowledge that the Executive order entitled "Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees," issued by the President on January 20, 1993, which I have read before signing this document, defines certain of the terms applicable to the foregoing obligations and sets forth the methods for enforcing them.
I acknowledge that the Executive order entitled 'Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees,' issued by the President on January 20, 1993, which I have read before signing this document, defines certain of the terms applicable to the foregoing obligations and sets forth the methods for enforcing them.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/resources/govdocs/eos/eo12834.html   (1030 words)

  
 PROTECTIVE ASSERTION OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE REGARDING WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL'S OFFICE DOCUMENTS
PRESIDENT: You have requested my legal advice as to whether executive privilege may properly be asserted in response to a subpoena issued to the Counsel to the President by the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives.
Executive privilege may properly be asserted with respect to the entire set of White House Counsel's Office documents currently being withheld from the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives, pending a final Presidential decision on the matter.
This would be a protective assertion of executive privilege designed to ensure the President's ability to make a final decision, after consultation with the Attorney General, as to which specific documents are deserving of a conclusive claim of executive privilege.
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/whto.ag.htm   (283 words)

  
 INVOLVEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE IN EXECUTIVE BRANCH PRINTING AND DUPLICATING
The 36th Congress "authorized and directed" the superintendent of public printing "to have executed the printing and binding authorized by the Senate and House of Representatives, the executive and judicial departments, and the Court of Claims." Id.
Specifically, the 36th Congress granted the superintendent of public printing sweeping authority to contract for "the necessary buildings, machinery, and materials" and to hire all "hands necessary to execute the orders of Congress and of the executive and judicial departments, at the city of Washington." Id.
Because the GPO is subject to congressional control and because the GPO performs executive functions, we conclude that the language in 44 U.S.C. §§ 501 and 501 note requiring the executive branch to procure all of its printing by or through the GPO is unconstitutional and, therefore, inoperative.
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/printer.fin.htm   (7248 words)

  
 Citizens for a Constitutional Republic
Countless government officials in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government take their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution with no understanding of the responsibilities that oath entails.
We need Citizen legislators that will pledge to be faithful to this constitutional requirement and to work methodically to restore to the States and to the people their rightful control over legislative, judicial, executive, and regulatory functions which are not constitutionally delegated to the federal government.
Over time, the limitations of federal government power imposed by the Constitution have been substantially eroded.Preservation of constitutional government requires a restoration of the balance of authority between the federal government and the States as provided in the Constitution, itself, and as intended and construed by those who framed and ratified that document.
http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com   (7248 words)

  
 Charlotte Area Liaison Group - DOL Regulation
The existing definition of "subcontract" under the Executive Order regulations applies to agreements which are necessary to the performance of a Government contract, or under which part of the performance of the Government contract is assumed or undertaken.
The law firm was concerned that the revised definition of contract would expand the Executive Order's coverage to concessionaires and licensees that operate on Government lands under nonappropriated fund contracts.
Executive Order 11246, as amended prohibits all nonexempt Government contractors and subcontractors, and federally assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, from discriminating in employment.
http://www.calginc.org/dol_regulation.php   (7734 words)

  
 Ben's Guide: Branches of Government (3-5)
The three branches of the U.S. Government are the legislative, executive, and judicial.
separation of powers, or three separate branches of government.
A branch may use its powers to check the powers of the other two in order to maintain a balance of power among the three branches of government.
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/government/branches.html   (176 words)

  
 Continuity of Government - United States Nuclear Forces
Generally these sites would be used as conditions warrant and permit to maintain continuity of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the government.
Executive order 10346, issued to the federal departments by President Truman, specifically charges them to prepare plans for maintaining the continuity of their essential functions at the Seat of Government and elsewhere during the existence of an emergency.
The elements comprising the program for the continuity of the executive departments and agencies of the federal government have changed but little in the years since the federal government initiated the program.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/cog.htm   (176 words)

  
 executive privilege on Encyclopedia.com
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE [executive privilege] exemption of the executive branch of government, or its officers, from having to give evidence, specifically, in U.S. law, the exemption of the president from disclosing information to congressional inquiries or the judiciary.
Where criminal charges are being brought against a president, as in the case of Richard Nixon, the claims of executive privilege are weakest; during the process leading to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, numerous claims made by the White House were dropped when it was clear courts would not uphold them.
Efforts by various presidents since Eisenhower to gain absolute and unqualified privilege have been rejected by the courts, though they remain inclined to support most claims of executive privilege.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/e1/executiv-pr.asp   (483 words)

  
 Executive order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To date, the courts have overturned only two executive orders: the aforementioned Truman order and a 1996 order issued by President Bill Clinton that attempted to prevent the U.S. government from contracting with organizations that had strikebreakers on the payroll.
An executive order is an edict issued by a member of the executive branch of a government, usually the head of that branch.
Presidents of the United States have issued executive orders since 1789.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order   (708 words)

  
 Federal Government Resources on the Web/Executive Branch
Indexes over 20,000 federal government websites, including Executive Branch agencies, Members of Congress, individual reports, and bills
Organization chart of the executive, legislative, judicial, and independent branches of government
Brief biographies of government officials and great detail on executive staff
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedexec.html   (1121 words)

  
 US CODE: Title 41,253. Competition requirements
(2) the executive agency’s need for the property or services is of such an unusual and compelling urgency that the Government would be seriously injured unless the executive agency is permitted to limit the number of sources from which it solicits bids or proposals;
(1) It is the policy of Congress that an executive agency should not be required by legislation to award a new contract to a specific non-Federal Government entity.
An executive agency using procedures other than competitive procedures to procure property or services by reason of the application of subsection (c)(2) or (c)(6) of this section shall request offers from as many potential sources as is practicable under the circumstances.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/41/253.html   (1954 words)

  
 Government of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The national government of France is divided into an executive, a legislative and a judiciary branch.
The government also can link its term to a legislative text which it proposes, and unless a motion of censure is introduced (within 24 hours after the proposal) and passed (within 48 hours of introduction - thus full procedures last at most 72 hours), the text is considered adopted without a vote.
The general rule is that government agencies and the civil service are at the disposal of the gouvernement, or cabinet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Government   (5525 words)

  
 DAMES & MOORE v. REGAN, 453 U.S. 654 (1981)
This action was taken in an effort to comply with an Executive Agreement between the United States and Iran.
That dispute involves various Executive Orders and regulations by which the President nullified attachments and liens on Iranian assets in the United States, directed that these assets be transferred to Iran, and suspended claims against Iran that may be presented to an International Claims Tribunal.
In its complaint, petitioner alleged that the actions of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury implementing the Agreement with Iran were beyond their statutory and constitutional powers and, in any event, were unconstitutional to the extent they adversely affect petitioner's final judgment against the Government of Iran...
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/dames.html   (1835 words)

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