Home Rule: Hearings Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 4694 [and Other] Bills to Set Up an Elected Form of Government for the District of Columbia . . . Subcommittee No.3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 538 lappuses |
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202. lappuse - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation not simply convenient but indispensable.
80. lappuse - ... rule-making power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in such House in the case of resolutions (as defined in section 202) ; and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith...
254. lappuse - That the Legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States.
34. lappuse - Council is hereby exempted with respect to such appointment, from the operation of sections 281, 283, 284, and 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, and section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 USC 99) except as otherwise specified in paragraph (2) of this subsection.
498. lappuse - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings...
55. lappuse - Any failure to obey such order may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
114. lappuse - ... effective control over and accountability for all funds, property, and other assets for which the agency is responsible, including appropriate internal audit...
509. lappuse - The people of the United States, as sovereign owners of the National Territories, have supreme power over them and their inhabitants. In the exercise of this sovereign dominion, they are represented by the government of the United States, to whom all the powers of government over that subject have been delegated, subject only to such restrictions as are expressed in the Constitution, or are necessarily implied in its terms...
512. lappuse - ... and as long as it continues to exist in its present form, it speaks not only with the same words, but with the same meaning and intent, with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States.
201. lappuse - ... central authority, and hence, while the rule is also fundamental that the power to make laws cannot be delegated, the creation of municipalities exercising local selfgovernment has never been held to trench upon that rule. Such legislation is not regarded as a transfer of general legislative power, but rather as the grant of the authority to prescribe local regulations, according to immemorial practice, subject of course to the interposition of the superior in cases of necessity.