The will of the people is the will of the people.
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The party should not be protected from the will of the people; it should respect and honor the will of the people. Period.
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In an essay called "The Will of the People is Crap," he declared: I don't give a damn about the will of the people.
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She doesn't know how to implement the will of the people, if the will of the people — or at least the people who hold her political future in their hands — is suicide.
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Supranational discipline is up against the will of the people.
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He says he will follow the will of the people.
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Republicans are not carrying out the will of the people.
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He added that the will of the people would prevail.
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And, in time, the will of the people would prevail.
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So, clearly the will of the people has been lost.
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The Wisconsin lawmaker also accepts the will of the people.
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The will of the people is to change the regime.
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"The will of the people should prevail," he fired back.
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For them, the will of the people is not important.
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Almost all MPs want to respect the will of the people.
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A norm where the majority ignores the will of the people.
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It is, according to the governor, the will of the people.
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Our democracy depends on the will of the people being supreme.
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The will of the people is a powerful and fearsome thing.
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Media outlets parroting this 'will of the people' line is disturbing.
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They sent a clear message about the will of the people.
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This is no honest inquiry respecting the will of the people.
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"This is entirely about the will of the people," he said.
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"the will of the people" requires in this sort of situation.
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"I wish we would be at the will of the people."
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In a democracy, the government represents the will of the people.
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So I think that the will of the people should prevail.
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We don't know what the will of the people truly is.
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How can any fair and rational political person favor an idea that would hurt the superdelegates who overturn the will of the people, and hurt the candidate the superdelegates chose against the will of the people?
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Typically, the electors follow the will of the people in their state.
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That is the will of the people and is to be respected.
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"Negating the will of the people is unacceptable," he wrote on Twitter.
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The will of the people expressed through elections had toppled a dictator.
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"Maraga thinks he can overturn the will of the people," Kenyatta said.
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It's as if the will of the people is an incoherent concept.
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They'll rightly argue the elites overturned the expressed will of the people.
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She must enact the will of the people, expressed during the referendum.
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"They will say the will of the people can't alter," Blair said.
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TODD: Ok. WARREN: And make this WARREN: The will of the people.
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So I think that the will of the people should prevail, yes.
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Their motive, conservatives reason, is to overturn the will of the people.
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It is much the same for other "will of the people" leaders.
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I think third party candidates can thwart the will of the people.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the will of the people!
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No president is above the will of the people — Mr. Erdogan included.
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Nearly always, electors follow the will of the people (more on this below).
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" "They're talking about trying to win by overturning the will of the people.
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The will of the people, he said, "has nothing to do with it".
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"Today the government acts on the democratic will of the people," said May.
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There is no legitimate reason to protest the will of the people. pic.twitter.
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The rules are the rules, and the will of the people must prevail.
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The will of the people is clear: there's too much money in politics.
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Yes. Should they be given power to overrule the will of the people?
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A party being allowed to blatantly bypass the will of the people is.
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His real motive: to ignore the will of the people and maintain power.
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The House of Commons has become disconnected from the will of the people.
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Third, a North American World Cup would reflect the will of the people.
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"Let's honor the will of the people of Massachusetts," Mr. McConnell said then.
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For one, our system often does not respect the will of the people.
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Democracy can only enact the "will of the people" if the will exists.
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"I think that the will of the people should prevail, yes," he said.
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Like them or not, presidents uniquely represent the elected will of the people.
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"Our goal is fair maps that reflect the will of the people," Ward says.
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"Democracy is for all, and democracy is the will of the people," he said.
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That was until November 2012 when the will of the people was dramatically expressed.
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The politics: Democrats are accusing GOP legislators of overturning the will of the people.
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I do not disregard math, I do not disregard the will of the people.
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"The Republican-controlled legislature voted to subvert the will of the people," state Sen.
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But I just think the will of the people ought to carry the day.
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That is an example of establishment characters going against the will of the people.
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"The will of the people should prevail," Sanders said in the Las Vegas debate.
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The will of the people is being overruled by the tyranny of the trolls.
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Little said he would follow the will of the people if the initiative passes.
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Unlike Congress, the department of biology should not reflect the will of the people.
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Or better, select our president by will of the people and the popular vote.
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This sort of revocation is usually couched as reflecting the will of the people.
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"Legislators are supposed to honor the will of the people, not criminalize it," she added.
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For this I look where our founding fathers looked: to the will of the people.
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"The will of the people cannot be vanquished," the civilian administration said in a statement.
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That is why all sides can claim to represent the "real" will of the people.
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What's more, they may feel like they're at the will of the people around them.
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"It goes against what people would describe as the will of the people," said Corbat.
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The temptation is built into a government tasked with representing the will of the people.
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Donald J. Trump says the abstruse Republican delegate system distorts the will of the people.
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It's Congress and state legislatures, they say, that don't reflect the will of the people.
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What is voter suppression anyway but an attempt to thwart the will of the people?
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The emperor's message — interpreted as a directive — in turn became the will of the people.
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It is, after all, the will of the people that matters in a democracy, right?
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Parliament, he said, had thwarted the democratic will of the people in not delivering Brexit.
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Now it is time for democracy and government to meet the will of the people.
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In Alaska, he is going against the will of the people to target Bristol Bay.
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So he would be asking the party establishment to overturn the will of the people.
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"With the Save the Internet Act, Democrats are honoring the will of the people," Pelosi said.
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And no matter what Trump thinks, the president does not embody the will of the people.
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Many voters see a second referendum as a plot to thwart the will of the people.
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POLITICIANS ON BOTH sides of the Brexit divide talk sanctimoniously of the "will of the people".
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"Elections must credibly reflect the will of the people," US State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
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Then, and only then, should Congress pass a law to reflect the will of the people.
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But I think the third-party candidates are-- can thwart actually the will of the people.
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The state's Democratic Governor, Dannel Malloy, said the court's decision reflected the will of the people.
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If a clear loser refuses to concede and rejects the will of the people on Wednesday?
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It may be that the actual will of the people is for him to serve indefinitely.
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"We've got to have leadership that ensures we do the will of the people," he said.
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Supporters of November's ballot initiative say GOP state legislators are undoing the will of the people.
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"I think third-party candidates can thwart, actually, the will of the people," Buffett told CNBC.
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Now Parliament must deliver will of the people - we will trigger A50 by end of March.
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The myth is that more often than not, the "will of the people" does not exist.
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Any appeal to "the will of the people" to justify obstructionism therefore falls on deaf ears.
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Committee members spar over 'will of the people' in regards to impeachment 3:3003 p.m. Reps.
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That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people.
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They bought off interest groups, exploited parliamentary loopholes, and ignored the clear will of the people.
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This topsy-turvy logic about the will of the people can end only in an ugly place.
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But the will of the people is too important to be merely guessed at by squabbling MPs.
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U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf ruled that blocking the execution would 'frustrate the will of the people.
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It's all about the will of the people, man, that's how (President Donald) Trump got in there.
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You have to respect the will of the people regardless of whether you agree with the results.
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We will not stand for this attack on the will of the people and our Democratic process.
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And while sales are one way to gauge the will of the people, the marketplace is fickle.
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"We have many dangerous crimes ... it is a necessity and the will of the people," Prayuth said.
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It's hardly a democracy if "Citizens United" means dollars can drown out the will of the people.
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However, supporters of the "will of the people" often care more about national identity than about money.
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But what happens when the government has the power to systematically manipulate the will of the people?
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Experts who point out inconvenient truths are rebranded as traitors who oppose the will of the people.
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How can you ask superdelegates to vote for you in defiance of the will of the people?
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Advocates in all three states decried lawmakers' moves, saying they are ignoring the will of the people.
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Gore that the will of judges can be in direct opposition to the will of the people.
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"The will of the people is crap," the influential conservative Erick Erickson wrote, about Trump's primary victories.
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Much the way Mayor Correia is still in City Hall, despite the clear will of the people.
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Where are the elected officials who are supposed to stand up for the will of the people?
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"I've been shocked and disheartened that the government isn't representing the will of the people," Hodgin said.
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Even if slave music isn't exactly defiant, it's still like the triumph of the will of the people.
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"The disconnect really is [Northam] understanding the magnitude and what the will of the people is," Shropshire said.
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Clearly, the powers that be wanted to maintain the status quo and hide the will of the people.
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But for 240 years, our democracy has respected the will of the people and allowed for peaceful succession.
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A presidency that does not reflect the will of the people cannot sustain itself over the long term.
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Congress and state legislatures should be following the will of the people and get out of the way.
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Can we put them on the record as stating that the popular will of the people doesn't matter?
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When the will of the people is consistently thwarted, a nation's claim to democracy is called into question.
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Well, the will of the people clearly is for us to have a vote on her Brexit deal.
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"Stacey Abrams' antics are a disgrace to democracy and completely ignore the will of the people," Mahoney said.
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The Sanders camp would tell them to follow the will of the people rather than the party establishment.
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"It's time to accept the will of the people," North Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Patsy Keever told WTVD.
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It does what it was intended to do: make judges more responsive to the will of the people.
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Industry executives say the tax is a failure and that it goes against the will of the people.
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"This committee is intentionally ignoring the will of the people," said Gail Milbrath, a retired teacher from Milwaukee.
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He believes in "the will of the people," a dangerous phrase, as Angie Hobbs, a British philosopher, noted.
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"This is about preserving the will of the people, this is about preserving democracy," Mr. Ford told lawmakers.
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And in many countries, democratic institutions have been captured and the will of the people has been compromised.
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Just to be sure nobody ever gets the impression this is just about the will of the people.
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To her fans she is an exemplary democrat, constantly calibrating and recalibrating according to the will of the people.
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It's not surprising that Trump would be reliant on the idea of "the will of the people" early on.
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The will of the people might not be all that matters in politics, but nor should it be meaningless.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is a will of the people of the world for our freedom and for our peace.
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Even the improbable rise of Trump is an exercise in the will-of-the-people, anything-is-possible democracy.
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It's now a matter of trust in British politicians that we should deliver on the will of the people.
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More than 60% of Americans want stricter gun laws, but our government doesn't reflect the will of the people.
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Supporters of Brexit accused Blair of undermining both Britain's negotiations with the EU and the will of the people.
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I am cautiously optimistic that the president appears to have heard the will of the people on this issue.
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Yet now that MPs are duly asserting themselves, Leavers attack them for subverting the sovereign will of the people.
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The GOP leadership would also have a duty to urge Mr. Trump to accept the will of the people.
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A weaker EPA means weaker enforcement of essential public safeguards, a clear violation of the will of the people.
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Sunsets Plebiscites aren't the only way to prevent some rogue city council from overriding the will of the people.
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"Unlike the different governments, the will of the people is where he gets his power from," the lawyer said.
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Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that a recent election "fails to represent the genuine will of" the people.
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I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a Republicrat, and I go with the will of the people.
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Brexit was never about the will of the people; it was about a group of politicians' will to power.
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Sanders' campaign has long said that superdelegates represent an unfair advantage for Clinton, contrary the will of the people.
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Surely, in a referendum every vote is equal, and the will of the people carries regardless of the demographic?
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Although the Lecompton constitution seemed to represent the will of the people, in fact, it had been fraudulently obtained.
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Since the majority of citizens in Kansas actually opposed slavery, the popular will of the people had been ignored.
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And Congress should serve as a deliberative body that ultimately reflects the will of the people through their representatives.
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" Mr. Heaton-Harris writes on his website about his support of Brexit as defending the "will of the people.
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When most people hear the word "democracy," they think about a system that enacts the will of the people.
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Who decided to ignore the will of the people and table the unpopular extradition bill in the first place?
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Supporters of Brexit accused Blair of undermining both Britain's negotiations with the EU and the will of the people.
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The natural check against such self-serving behavior is the will of the people, as expressed through their votes.
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But the economy is a secondary concern to him – as it is to other "will of the people" leaders.
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"It is not the will of the people that is fairly ascertained through extreme partisan gerrymandering," the court wrote.
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It's why we're talking to legislators now, on both sides, asking them to respect the will of the people.
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Coup leaders, who tend to strike amid unrest, almost always claim to be serving the will of the people.
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They allege the president is thwarting the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box on March 4.
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War is conceived within the hearts of people; thus, it can also be prevented by the will of the people.
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Brexiteers invoke the "will of the people" to suggest that anything but their own maximalist interpretation of Brexit is illegitimate.
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When European populists say they want to express the will of the people, they have some specific issues in mind.
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Mr. Arrow's "impossibility theorem" says that there is no mechanism that can coherently speak for the will of the people.
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"The PMDB's hurry is based on the will of the people," a party leader, Wellington Moreira Franco, said on Twitter.
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It shows a profound disconnect between the actions of Congress and the will of the people they're supposed to represent.
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The filibuster helps the minority undercut the will of the people — and then blame the majority for letting it happen.
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But Davis, a leading campaigner for Brexit, repeated May's mantra that the government would deliver "the will of the people".
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Governors Kasich and Hickenlooper are doing crucial work to ensure that our democracy truly reflects the will of the people.
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Pete Ricketts (R) promised to follow the will of the people and implement expansion, even though he campaigned against it.
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"Today, Governor Walker chose to ignore and override the will of the people of Wisconsin," Evers said in a statement.
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Supporters of Brexit contend that opponents now want to thwart the will of the people as expressed in the referendum.
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Officials from the governing party say they are simply overhauling a corrupt system that obstructs the will of the people.
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Can a political system divided by race, religion, lifestyle and class reasonably represent anything resembling the will of the people?
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We are a democracy and the way a democracy is supposed to work is the will of the people matters.
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One could say that Akihito's message about abdication, like his father's about surrender, also shaped the will of the people.
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Votes are counted in an absurd way, and the result can diverge significantly from the actual will of the people.
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"The more people vote, the more government reflects the will of the people," said Bradley Tusk, CEO of Tusk Philanthropies.
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We should also repeal the filibuster so Republicans like Mitch McConnell can't continue to block the will of the people.
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A strong leader, he argued, was necessary to break through those shadowy forces and impose the will of the people.
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The governor's executive order also undercuts the will of the people who last fall elected Ms. Ayala to serve them.
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Brexiteers argue a second referendum would be undemocratic, an attempt to undo the will of the people as evinced in 2016.
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The gravest risk for Mrs May is not the will of the people—polls suggest most Britons favour a soft Brexit.
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Brexiters now say it would be undemocratic to hold a People's Vote as that would overturn the "will" of the people.
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Relitigating the results of the election ignores the will of the people and jeopardizes public confidence in our nation's highest court.
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But we can no longer run the risk that the Electoral College will once again subvert the will of the people.
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"There is nothing much to celebrate about the 2013 constitution, which was opposed to the will of the people," Prasad said.
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All that is required now are leaders in Washington with the conviction to carry out the will of the people. Sens.
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Supporters have said the Supreme Court decision reflected the will of the people because those judges are elected officials in Bolivia.
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Many international observers had described the elections as rigged, but Maduro insisted that the outcome reflected the will of the people.
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Its leaders understand that they are representing the will of the people in their support for expanding, not cutting, Social Security.
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There's room for this mixture, but only if markets are bent to the will of the people, as in Warren's conception.
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If you want to really get depressed about the responsiveness of government to the will of the people, go to PollingReport.
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In short, up until very recently it was party bosses who decided their nominee — sometimes against the will of the people.
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Now, advocates of liquid democracies argue tech can be used to make democratic systems actually represent the will of the people.
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At issue was the key question of executive authority versus the power of the Congress and the will of the people.
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More than anything, Thailand should have a government that reflects the will of the people, not the will of the junta.
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It was a classic populist complaint: the will of the people, thwarted by political elites and their cronies in the media.
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Bashar al-Assad attacks medical facilities to break the will of the people — and to destroy evidence of his war crimes.
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"Secretary Mnuchin has allowed Trump's racism and misogyny to prevent him from carrying out the will of the people," she said.
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"And so I think what President Trump is reflecting is actually the will of the people of Alabama," Mr. DeMarco added.
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It means a whole new group of people who are actually running the House that reflects the will of the people.
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The pretense that those who win power reflect the will of the people -- that our government has legitimacy -- is becoming unsustainable.
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Once in government, they attack the liberal constitutional framework of democracy that they view as constraining the will of the people.
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But Florida state law exists to protect the will of the people and does not mandate capital punishment for any case.
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Democracy is built on the notion that any election outcome reflects the will of the people, and therefore must be respected.
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I think this leads to better political decisions being made, because the elected candidates better represent the will of the people.
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Anything other than a formal impeachment proceeding against him is a direct assault on the will of the people and on democracy.
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We have to push from the outside, have leadership from the inside, and make this Congress reflect the will of the people.
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Has this provided the necessary connection to the people that allow the House of Representatives to reflect the will of the people?
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But if you lose, you have to bow to the will of the people and salute the majesty of the democratic system.
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U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf ruled against the company, arguing that temporarily blocking the execution would 'frustrate the will of the people.
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"It's a clear and present danger that has emerged, and it's threatening our democracy and the will of the people," Hannity said.
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There are simply no more excuses for delaying the will of the people, which was expressed freely and democratically this past Sunday.
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Kevin Stitt (R) said at a Friday press conference that the state is "implementing the will of the people" through these commutations.
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Equally, the only source of legitimacy for regional bosses is not the electoral will of the people but his appointment or approval.
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Sisi has yet to announce his own intentions for the presidential election, saying only he would follow the will of the people.
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They would argue, in the populist tradition, that the British referendum demonstrated the will of the people and was therefore richly democratic.
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Third, the United States could show that it has a high regard for the will of the people, expressed through free elections.
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"America is fully committed to helping Sudan transition to a civilian-led government that reflects the will of the people," Hale said.
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He came off as believing that the will of the people is one thing, but the will of the Senate is another.
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His justification for this is that the "will of the people", as embodied in the referendum result of 2016, must be honoured.
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And this is where we drew the line, because underscoring dignity and validating the will of the people could not wait forever.
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"The more people vote, the more government reflects the will of the people," Tusk CEO Bradley Tusk said in a prepared statement.
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There is a time and a place for rules and traditions, but not when the they obstruct the will of the people.
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First they attempted to deny the electoral college's rightful place in duly electing our president according to the will of the people.
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Sanders has said the candidate with the most delegates should get the nomination, since that best reflects the will of the people.
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" Mr. Lévy responded, saying, "If the will of the people consists of voting for Hitler or supporting Mussolini, it is not democracy.
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It's the Republican Party that refuses to let the will of the people advance on the House floor and the Senate floor.
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These measures have all encountered some form of resistance, but they reflect the will of the people manifested through their elected representatives.
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G.O.P. lawmakers have brazenly dismissed the will of the people in this election and have shown no compunction about curtailing civil liberties.
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Our democracy isn't representing the will of the people — if anything it's representing the small slice of the American public who vote.
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The most disturbing prospect is that the president can use legitimate powers of his office to thwart the will of the people.
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"It's appalling that anti-equality extremists in the legislature are trying to ignore the will of the people of Georgia," it said.
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"The will of the people elected a House that would not function as a wholly owned subsidiary of this administration," Jeffries said.
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Opponents who criticize the result risk looking anti-democratic, trying to thwart the will of the people expressed at the ballot box.
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So much for the will of the people — we might as well be picking victors of close elections out of a bowl.
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Silence. God will ask you why you did not defer to the will of the people as children poured out their blood.
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"They are trying to steal the will of the people as it was reflected in the ballots," she told reporters in Istanbul.
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Monday's Electoral College vote reflects the will of the people in each of the states, wise or unwise as they may have been.
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"The will of the people has been violated," said Mu Sochua, a deputy to Kem Sokha who fled abroad in fear of arrest.
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He certainly wouldn't dare to say that the 37.4% of the voting population who voted for Brexit expressed the will of the people.
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Rather, he is "the symbol of the state…deriving his position from the will of the people" in whom, explicitly, sovereignty now lies.
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"Everything follows from the will of the people, so the more people who talk about it to their senators and congressmen, the better."
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"With the Save the Internet Act, Democrats are honoring the will of the people," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said last month.
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There is the political level, where rhetoric is and has to be strong - the will of the people and new leadership in place.
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They hanker for strong leaders who can embody the will of the people, surpass these encumbrances and provide seductively simple solutions to problems.
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The 2016 referendum provided the trigger for this metamorphosis by allowing the Brexiteers to claim that they represented "the will of the people".
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Those voters who complain that such a convention would somehow be ignoring the will of the people or "rigged," have it completely backwards.
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Rather, she would have been impressed by her resolve to uphold the will of the people in voting to exit the European Union.
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To do otherwise empowers individuals beyond the rule of law and puts the whims of officials ahead of the will of the people.
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Welcome to the organization that wants to destroy its own party and go against the will of the people and its voting base.
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And citizens are furious — rightly furious — at a political establishment that cynically breaks its promises and that ignores the will of the people.
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But if the Republican Party tries to pull off any backroom deals and ignores the will of the people, our role will change.
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It's time for Congress to get in the game and represent the will of the people to end the failed prohibition of marijuana.
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Lawmakers in these jurisdictions have a responsibility to abide by the will of the people and to do so in a timely manner.
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Following the 2012 plebiscite, opponents of statehood argued that participation had not been high enough to reflect the true will of the people.
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In creating government that reflected the will of the people, they knew that it could reflect our highest aspirations and our greatest flaws.
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Should it pass, the DPP will be forced to choose between inflaming tensions with Beijing, or abiding by the will of the people.
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Nationalist posters lined the school's walls: "Eradicate gangs and evil forces to win the hearts and good will of the people," read one.
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Rather, it requires an aggressive and unapologetic effort to show those in power that they no longer represent the will of the people.
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As my colleague Jeff Stein points out, superdelegates are politicians, and going against the will of the people jeopardizes their chances at reelection.
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They would eliminate the high-stakes randomness of replacing justices and better connect the court to the long-term will of the people.
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The European Union appears as an obvious instance of a liberal technocracy against which "the will of the people" needs to be asserted.
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The other believes institutions are often impediments and must be remade, dismantled and resembled in order to do the will of the people.
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"We are going to explore all necessary means, legal and constitutional, to ensure that the will of the people is protected," Chamisa said.
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Because Brexit is an example of how the establishment elites try to subvert the will of the people when they're given the chance.
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"They're trying to subvert the will of the people and overturn our votes and people are mad as hell about it," she added.
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For someone devoted to expanding democracy, Lessig is sharply critical of how the will of the people is expressed in American politics today.
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In short, the House would be the responsive body (reflecting the will of the people), while the Senate would be the responsible body.
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Supporters of Brexit say attempts to stop Brexit run against the democratic will of the people and could thrust Britain into a constitutional crisis.
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By showing up in large numbers, they are asking our democratically elected officials to notice the will of the people before they make decisions.
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Though their current attempt to block the will of the people is morally wrong, the extremist supermajority's fear of the voters is well grounded.
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Democratic institutions tend to be "self-justifying": Because they are the result of elections, we assume they must represent the will of the people.
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The Tories' Brexit wing, convinced that it had the "will of the people" on its side, kept demanding an ever-purer version of Brexit.
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Their argument rests on a flawed assumption: that the majority for Leave in 2016 means any resulting deal reflects the will of the people.
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This week a British prime minister, borrowing the language of demagogues down the ages, berated MPs for not enacting the "will of the people".
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The efficient branch now has an agonising choice: implement a policy that it believes to be foolish, or frustrate the "will of the people".
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The referendum gave a clear and legitimate command to leave the EU. To ignore it would be to subvert the will of the people.
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When those elite few design policies that benefit themselves, the ideology of progressive democracy justifies those policies as furthering the will of the people.
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The besieged prime minister's best argument is that the deal reflects the will of the people who voted in favor of Brexit in 28503.
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"It's imperative that we respect the will of the people of Alabama," said Neal, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Murkowski's efforts to undo this deal renders all of this time and effort wasted in blatant disregard for the will of the people impacted.
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"We have to push from the outside, have leadership from the inside and make this Congress reflect the will of the people," she continued.
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"Both parties should compete on a level playing field, not in a rigged game designed to suppress the will of the people," Warren said.
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John Kasich, dropped out this week, but Hannity said Ryan, the highest ranking elected Republican nationally, was ignoring the will of the people. Exactly.
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In practice, it's hard to see that happening; the voters have spoken, and politicians are loath to overturn the express will of the people.
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But the spirit of democracy was hardly limited to the idea that the will of the people is expressed through free and fair elections.
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"This bill is really the biggest aversion of the will of the people in this whole package," said State Representative Chris Taylor, a Democrat.
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" "He's been very supportive of it, and if a Missouri politician votes against the bill, they're clearly going against the will of the people.
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After an emergency meeting with his party leaders, he called on Italian television for Mr. Mattarella's impeachment for blocking the will of the people.
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I would give the prime minister Martin Gilbert's "The Will of the People: Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy," because she could benefit from its example.
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Educating the electorate is the surest way to increase motivation to turnout so that election results might better match the will of the people.
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"Millions of Kenyans queued, made their choice, and six people have decided that they will go against the will of the people," he said.
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Despite the will of the people, the Republican-controlled Congress clung to its do-nothing approach after the Parkland shooting and others like it.
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"Behind closed doors, the Coastal Commission defied the will of the people and acted to weaken the protection of California's iconic beaches," Mr. Steyer said.
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"We have to push from the outside and have leadership from the inside and make this Congress reflect the will of the people," Warren said.
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And it will further divide and balkanize our democracy as politicians try to hold on to power almost regardless of the will of the people.
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For weeks, Sanders has denounced the Democratic Party's "closed primaries" — which exclude Sanders-supporting independent voters — as undemocratic obstacles to the will of the people.
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Corbynites also want to reduce MPs from representatives to mere delegates, who have to implement the will of the people (ie, the will of activists).
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Critics blasted Trump for subverting perhaps the most basic principle of our democratic system -- that election results, reflecting the will of the people, are sacred.
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As a Donald Trump supporter, the battle to elevate the will of the people above that of the establishment is one with which I empathize.
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This is a common tactic of authoritarian leaders: depict any opposition as anti-patriotic, a fifth column working to undermine the will of the people.
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The vote doesn't necessarily bind Britain to leaving the EU, but it likely will, because defying the will of the people would be politically bad.
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And in six separate Supreme Court rulings, we've seen limits on political spending evaporate, each case further diluting the voice and will of the people.
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They want legislators to follow the will of the people they represent – but, eight in 10 believe self-interest and campaign contributors drive decisions instead.
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That's why we cannot support backroom deals and create a perception of some kind of cabal or demagoguery to deny the will of the people.
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Any number of mechanisms for assistance can also yield necessary electoral code adjustments to ensure legitimate early parliamentary elections reflecting the will of the people.
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"I believe very strongly that the way the FCC proceeded in repealing net neutrality was just totally contrary to the will of the people," Rep.
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Research suggests that RCV also reduces the polarizing effects of party primaries and yields less partisan leaders, while better representing the will of the people.
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Some pro-Brexit campaigners have warned the prime minister that she risks betraying the "will of the people" if she allows any delay to Brexit.
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Current president Sergio Mattarella's drastic steps have sparked a debate over whether he is overruling the will of the people, or acting within constitutional bounds.
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Jones, for his part, said in a statement that the lawsuit was "a desperate attempt by Roy Moore to subvert the will of the people."
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But increasingly, in places like Nigeria, elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, though sometimes they are not fully free and fair.
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She said it was time for Parliament to vote for a deal on Brexit, having promised to abide by the democratic will of the people.
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Not only will this action go against the will of the people who voted for legalized marijuana, this action will cause yet another economic collapse.
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Our nation was founded on a philosophy of restricting the unlimited executive power of the king and subjecting it to the will of the people.
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"The object of all elections is to ascertain, fairly and truthfully, the will of the people," the judges wrote, quoting the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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By not following the will of the people, Schiff said, senators place themselves in danger of their other achievements being overshadowed by their removal vote.
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"I do not accept the characterization that SB 96 ignores the will of the people," Herbert said about the bill in a blog post Friday.
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Moreover, Somalilanders did not give consent to be governed a corrupt and ineffective Somali government installed by foreign troops instead the will of the people.
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" Gaetz pushed back against those comments, saying that the "will of the people also elected Donald Trump to be the president of the United States.
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Free nations are the best vehicle for expressing the will of the people --- and America respects the right of all nations to chart their own path.
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I would like to call on President Yameen to accept the will of the people and begin a smooth transition of power as per the constitution.
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"There is, for the first time this year, a real notion that something could be done because the will of the people is there," Weinberg says.
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Free nations are the best vehicle for expressing the will of the people –- and America respects the right of all nations to chart their own path.
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In fact, populism — an insistence that government authority reflect the will of the people — could be a big part of the solution to the current crisis.
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A low turnout on Sunday could complicate his task in persuading more lawmakers that the name change agreement with Greece reflects the will of the people.
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To me, that means it's time for the government to stop opposing marijuana because it's the government's job to carry out the will of the people.
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" Days later, McConnell also criticizes the process in his weekly address: "Democrats decided to go the partisan route and blatantly ignore the will of the people.
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Her resistance makes Poland emblematic of the populist attacks on institutions which hold governing power to account, privileging "the will of the people" over all else.
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The politicization of state attorneys general begets further politicization of the courts at the expense of Congress and the will of the people who elect them.
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And others because they forget their fealty is to the Constitution and their job description doesn't include discussing efforts to negate the will of the people.
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"This election violates the Venezuelan constitution's norms and contravenes the sovereign will of the people as represented in the National Assembly," the Peruvian Foreign Ministry said.
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There should be no ripoffs at the Democratic convention in which establishment superdelegates seek to overturn the will of the people expressed in primaries and caucuses.
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The street protests by the Iranian people have sent as clear a message that the Islamist fundamentalist government does not represent the will of the people.
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Those who oppose the Electoral College do so for lots of reasons -- the main one being that it doesn't reflect the popular will of the people.
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But depending on who is elected to the governor's seat, that could pose a major conflict between the state's government and the will of the people.
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"While I respect the pope's perspective, capital punishment remains the will of the people and the law of the state of Nebraska," Mr. Ricketts's statement said.
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Critics, including Mr. Johnson, have opposed another referendum as a cynical effort by those who lost in 2016 to overturn the democratic will of the people.
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This law intends to ensure that those elected can serve the people according to the will of the people, not the will of the law clerks.
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It was a major victory for the ISAA, which Pruett was careful to frame as a simple reflection of the work and will of the people.
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They called for his impeachment, saying he had overstepped his constitutional bounds with delusions of grandeur, blocked the will of the people and destroyed Italian democracy.
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Five Star leaders applied pressure to the president to give them a chance at the helm, warning Mr. Mattarella against blocking the will of the people.
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The second most prevalent argument against Free the Delegates is that we are trying to usurp "the will of the people" by denying Trump the nomination.
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"There's been a referendum, and there's a will of the people to leave, despite my personal beliefs," said Craig Beddow, a retail worker in the area.
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Congress's continued failure to act on behalf of their constituents over these many years flagrantly defies the will of the people who they purport to represent.
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" Mr. Khelil, the rights activist, said that the election "contradicts the will of the people" and was intended to give the existing system a "civil facade.
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True faithfulness to the will of the people requires our current elected leaders to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court.
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We need this Congress to act on the will of the people of the Island who voted in 2628 in favor of statehood for the territory.
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Our elections have never truly been a reflection of the will of the people; they have been, rather, a reflection of the will of the states.
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Yet keeping the election's winner out of government would bode ill for democracy, and substantiate Mr Wilders's accusations that elites are ignoring the will of the people.
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Mutharika had denounced the ruling as "a serious subversion of justice, an attack on our democratic systems and an attempt to undermine the will of the people".
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On Friday, the ACLU of Florida told CNN that it will "explore all options in order to ensure that the will of the people is carried out."
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There will be a deep well of popular anger to exploit for a politician who can frame themself as the defender of the will of the people.
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I stand with the people of Wisconsin, and we will be taking any steps necessary to prevent power-hungry politicians from overriding the will of the people.
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THE Koch brothers are to the left what George Soros is to the right: villains accused of using their billions to subvert the will of the people.
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In the world of geopolitics and security, this is regime change by other means -- overthrowing, in effect, the will of the people by way of a cyberattack.
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Voters who opposed its decisions would no longer be challenging a government or a political party; they would be pitting themselves against "the will of the people".
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Although few details about the upcoming strike have been made public, organizers sent a special message along with the announcement: "The will of the people will stand."
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The more they try to protect important areas of decision-making, not least immigration, from the will of the people, the more they will create festering resentment.
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But he later struck a more combative note, criticizing the court for ignoring the will of the people and dismissing the chief justice's colleagues as "wakora" (crooks).
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The pervasive divide between the agendas of those in power and the will of the people have marked our politics for too long, now with catastrophic results.
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"It comes from this general concern about democratic institutions not being reflective of the will of the people," Ezra Levin, a co-founder of Indivisible, told me.
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""The will of the people is speaking loud and clear," tweeted Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden, "Time to unite to deal with a national crisis.
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Send him to the Senate, Mr. McDaniel went on, and he would do his best to be a vehicle for the will of the people of Mississippi.
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While his rivals called such efforts heroic and patriotic, his supporters complained of a virtual coup at odds with the Constitution and the will of the people.
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Moreover, this episode is far from signaling a broken cycle of governments arising out of established power bases rather than, say, the democratic will of the people.
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Already, many supporters of Brexit, and even some lawmakers, say the elite has sabotaged the EU divorce and is trying to subvert the will of the people.
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"Hopefully (then) go to conference and find a compromise that we can send to the President's desk that represents the will of the people," Meadows told CNN.
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It is fundamental to democracy that elected leaders heed the law and the will of the people; is it certain in the prevailing climate that they will?
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As has happened before, some of his noisier supporters attacked the judges as part of an anti-Brexit establishment bent on thwarting the will of the people.
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In a system where the government is supposed to express the popular will of the people, this "feels" like a rejection of the basic premise of democracy.
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Earlier this year, Republicans in the Maine House blocked several voter-approved referendums and even shutdown government as a tactic to defy the will of the people.
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There are people who believe that law, morality, traditions and institutions are at least as important to the preservation of freedom as the will of the people.
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"I don't accept that the general election shows the will of the people has changed," said Alan Jarrett, the Brexit-supporting leader of the Conservative-run local authority.
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And today, we&aposre seeing the rise of another Know Nothing Party made up of secret forces deployed to undermine the will of the people and their representatives.
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"To my competitors, as I have always said, in the event that they lose, let us accept the will of the people," he said, according to the BBC.
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Those damning testimonials are part of a political vendetta by "Never Trumper" bureaucrats, members of a "deep state" bent on undermining the will of the people, they assert.
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But make no mistake, it's a flawed democratic system that doesn't actually do the will of the people, except for at the very moment it elects its representatives.
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Democracy and the will of the people is the cornerstone of our modern way of life, but it can always be improved upon to maximize freedom and equality.
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Brexiteers promptly accused a metropolitan elite of ignoring the will of the people, who decided in June 2016 to leave the EU. Yet the campaign has good arguments.
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The opposition says that is a power grab meant to keep the socialists in office and annul the existing opposition-controlled legislature against the will of the people.
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We see it in a corrupted American political system that answers to cronies with clout and routinely ignores the will of the people on issues like gun responsibility.
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"While I respect the Pope&aposs perspective, capital punishment remains the will of the people and the law of the State of Nebraska," Ricketts said in a statement.
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The case has inflamed passions in Britain, with pro-Brexit critics saying those challenging the government through the courts were seeking to thwart the will of the people.
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That's why I encourage the President to use this opportunity to put the will of the people ahead of advancing a liberal agenda on the nation's highest court.
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"We have to bring this solution closer to the will of the people," CVP parliamentary leader Filippo Lombardi told Swiss SRF radio in an interview aired on Wednesday.
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But congress delegate Tang Jialing, who is a crew member on a deep-sea research submersible, suggested that the lack of women reflected the will of the people.
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Theresa May wants to present her deal as the "will of the people" and say this is what people were voting for when they were voting for Brexit.
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But the will of the people has been thwarted by the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), a law that prohibits states from "authorizing" sports betting.
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Flouting the will of the people, mocking the voices calling for change and anchoring our future to the dirty fuels of the past is a formula for failure.
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The will of the people will be heard, and woe betide those politicians or parties that attempt to block, delay, or in any other way subvert that will.
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These influence peddlers, who now no longer consider the will of the people, have their own private vote for anyone at all to be the party flag-bearer.
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To date, the Conservative government has dismissed the case as legal "camouflage," a thinly disguised effort to frustrate the will of the people expressed in a June plebiscite.
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"She'll appoint radical judges who will legislate from the bench, overriding Congress, and I'll tell you, the will of the people will mean nothing — nothing," Mr. Trump said.
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The will of the people is just a polite way of saying the collective, which is the authoritarian, socialist destiny of this nation if Donald Trump is elected.
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The will of the people will be heard, and woe betide those politicians or parties that attempt to block, delay or in any other way subvert that will.
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"The RNC, the DNC [Democratic National Committee], everybody needs to recognize that this country was built around the will of the people," the former Republican presidential candidate said.
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Puigdemont has said the referendum proved the will of the people was to leave Spain and has vowed to continue with secession, despite Madrid's insistence it won't happen.
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But, as the vote was a referendum, steadfast Brexit supporters stuck to their positions, claiming that the vote was final and representative of the will of the people.
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This quarantine has begun to crack, with right-wing populists claiming to represent the true will of the people against mainstream parties that want to suppress that will.
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But their relative numbers are dwindling, and they live in fear of a future in which the law of the land reliably tracks the will of the people.
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"The will of the people should prevail," he said when asked during last week's debate if the candidate with the most pledged delegates should be the Democratic nominee.
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You have someone here who has all these votes, very close to get 1,237, let's not ignore the will of the people or they're going to be angry.
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Schiff in the report also invoked the Founding Fathers, repeating warnings of those who blindly seek to grab power, hurting the will of the people in the process.
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Without this national discourse taking place, a critical disconnect is corroding the essential bonds between the will of the people and the military actions pursued by its government.
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Y.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) sparred during the hearing over the role the "will of the people" has played in regards to the impeachment inquiry against Trump.
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Mr. Kenyatta, while arguing that the judges had acted against the will of the people, declared he would respect the ruling and called on Kenyans to remain peaceful.
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A strong believer in democratic principles, I would like to accept the election results, but I cannot, because the will of the people appears to have been violated.
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My research suggests that presidents step up their emphasis on how close they are to the will of the people when they've pushed at the boundaries of presidential authority.
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Never before have the distortionary effects of the Electoral College benefited a candidate who railed against an electoral system that, in his view, ignores the will of the people.
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On health care, Little has said he&aposll support the will of the people if a proposal to expand Medicaid in Idaho qualifies for the November ballot and passes.
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Grace Poe, a popular senator, won more than a fifth of the votes counted but conceded defeat to Duterte and said his lead reflected the will of the people.
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The decision to hold a referendum unleashed a volatile force: the "will of the people" (based on a single vote), which supposedly trumps the considered judgment of elected MPs.
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Some believe politicians have failed to deliver on the will of the people; others are flabbergasted that three years since the referendum, no one represents their values and views.
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On Friday, during an impromptu rally in Nairobi, he accused the court of ignoring the will of the people and dismissed the chief justice's colleagues as "wakora", or crooks.
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Congress passes a law with overwhelming bipartisan support, puts a waiver provision in it so the will of the people through their elected representatives is that this should happen.
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The post-referendum traumas hastened the transformation by confronting the will of the people with innumerable practical difficulties, from the opposition of Remainers to the cunning of the Eurocrats.
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Because they undermine representative democracy and suggest that there is a purer form of ascertaining the will of the people, referendums are a favorite tool of demagogues and dictators.
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Many politicians in May's Conservative Party and some pro-Brexit newspapers say the courts would be overstepping their constitutional role if they ignored the express will of the people.
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Theresa May has resisted a second referendum, basically saying it would be undemocratic and that the country has already voted and she's delivering on the will of the people.
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Regardless of the answer, will the American people be willing to admit a state through a rigged process where the true will of the people is called into question?
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"If the government subverts the sovereign will of the people ... then people are entitled to rebel against this government," Kisumu governor Anyang Nyong'o, a hardline Odinga supporter, told reporters.
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I understand that the Cruz campaign is trying to find a way to somehow magically find a way to force a convention even against the will of the people.
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Such popular votes are invariably used to justify a new round of repressive measures, since the ruler can now claim he's acting according to the will of the people.
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As Nigeria's strongest Western ally, the United States should put pressure on Nigeria's politicians and government to ensure peaceful, free, fair elections that reflect the will of the people.
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"What I've been seeing recently is political operatives…once again trying to assert themselves and trying to thwart the will of the people," Carson said at the news conference.
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"Whether it be at the federal or even state level, governments just in many instances are not representative of what might be the will of the people," Klepper said.
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"While I respect the pope's perspective, capital punishment remains the will of the people and the law of the state of Nebraska," according to Ricketts' statement to the Times.
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For all that populists purport to champion the will of the people, their definition of the people is often restrictive and "deeply illiberal," Mounk writes, if not downright exclusionary.
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The government came up with delegates, then, to ensure that the popular will of the people is listened to and supported as the winner of any given state's primary.
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Political conflict at the congressional level at times may pose a stumbling block to our democratic process, which aims to faithfully express the will of the people through law.
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The Prime Minister repeatedly calls it a betrayal that would frustrate the will of the people, as though the people would betray themselves by daring to change their minds.
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Once, again, an American president consistently rails against the establishment which he alleges conspires with the "fake news" media to thwart the will of the people who elected him.
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This is somebody using an executive order, an imperial executive order based on a whim to turn around the law as it exists and the will of the people.
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The will of the people elected a House that understands we have a constitutional responsibility to serve as a check and balance on an out of control executive branch.
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Philip Davies, a Conservative lawmaker, warned that the new vote might be used "to overturn and frustrate" the will of the people, as expressed in the June 2016 referendum.
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He told reporters later at a press conference, "We are going to explore all necessary means, legal and constitutional, to ensure that the will of the people is protected."
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Zhao Wanping, a delegate from the central province of Anhui, told Reuters Wang's election was in line with the will of the people, pointing to his anti-corruption efforts.
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Judicial conservatives will be restrained in their activism if and only if they believe that defying the will of the people on such consequential matters will lead to their delegitimization.
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"There can always be legal challenges, but the reality is that the city needs to go ahead and now implement Proposition C — it's the will of the people," he said.
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"Power-hungry politicians rushed through sweeping changes to our laws to expand their own power and override the will of the people of Wisconsin who asked for change," he said.
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Nationalism is really another word for democracy — the concept of democracy makes no sense except as an algorithm for determining the General Will of the People, that is, the Nation.
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The United Kingdom as a whole voted to leave in a referendum on June 23, and Prime Minister Theresa May has said the will of the people must be respected.
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The prime minister insists that her compromise is the only workable way to respect the will of the people, as expressed in that vote two and a half years ago.
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In truth, the will of the people is decidedly muddy, declares Sir John Curtice in his latest report for NatCen Social Research, based on survey data collected in early February.
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Lust for Life's user score—a rating based entirely on the will of the people, separate from the score generated by venerated critics—had dropped from 273674 to 22.0 overnight.
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But populism goes further: It wants the will of the people to go unchallenged, which puts it at odds with liberal democracy, the political system of most contemporary Western states.
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"People who think Donald Trump would be the worst thing that ever happened ... you make a really big mistake by trying to thwart the will of the people," Carson said.
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This very political season of American Horror Story comes to its conclusion tonight — and despite some bumps in our rough road to democracy, the will of the people must prevail.
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He worried that, over time, political parties would be destructive to our democracy because they would replace the will of the people with the will of the victorious political party.
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He's on the bench to maintain the constitutional structure of government and enact the expressed will of the people, even if he disagrees personally with the policies on the books.
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"The new Soros-led coalition is planning a coup in Britain, against the democratic will of the people," Richard Tice, who chairs the Leave Means Leave campaign group, told Reuters.
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Amid multiple overhauls of bad governments in the past two decades, few have expressed the discontent and will of the people as exactly or as articulately as Armenia's mass demonstrations.
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And it would incorporate the will of the people in a democratic way, rather than valuing the voters in a few states far more than the rest of us. Opinion
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My view is that the voters should choose the nominee in primaries and caucuses and that party insiders should not have the power to overturn the will of the people.
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The convention could behave like a legislature, he says, with representatives, allocated in rough proportion to voter preferences, expressing the will of the people in their selection of a candidate.
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It would give the hard right a foundation myth of staggering power: the democratic will of the people overridden by a decadent cosmopolitan elite, who need purging from public life.
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Liberal groups caused an uproar earlier this year as the legislature quickly moved to override the ballot initiative, saying the GOP lawmakers were blatantly defying the will of the people.
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It is critical that our election processes be able to withstand those attacks, continue to provide transparency, and provide accurate and trustworthy results that reflect the will of the people.
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In an uproarious debate in the House of Commons, Johnson refused to apologise for unlawfully suspending parliament and instead attacked opponents for thwarting the will of the people over Brexit.
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But the argument at the time was pretty simple: The UK voted to leave, 222 percent to 2650 percent, so their representatives had to back the will of the people.
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The Founding Fathers initially feared that the popular will of the people might lead to a demagogue becoming president, so they enacted this barrier — an antidemocratic measure, to be sure.
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However... although I support the individuals freedom to marry... I also support a States right to regulate marriage and its definition according to the will of the people of that state.
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A Senate victory against party lines would prop up the cause of net neutrality in the courts; our legal system likes to interpret Congressional votes as the will of the people.
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"His political career is over but for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people," Palin told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" on Sunday.
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"We must keep the focus on the federal government to enact the will of the people — and amend the Marriage Act as soon as possible," she said in a press statement.
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" He claimed Clinton will "appoint radical judges" to the Supreme Court "who will legislate from the bench, overriding Congress, and I'll tell you, the will of the people will mean nothing.
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"There's no question that there would be a lot of turmoil if the establishment tries to thwart the will of the people," Carson told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" Wednesday evening.
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New York (CNN)Big Boi is back and booming with new music and a message to politicians, particularly Democrats, in America: You cannot continue to ignore the will of the people.
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I'm much more concerned about the rights of these consumers at this point than upholding a law that is clearly outmoded and out of step with the will of the people.
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And, unique to the North Carolina constitution, the standard that "all elections shall be free" requires a government "in which the will of the people—the majority—legally expressed, must govern".
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Mr. Cruz said the agreement was aimed at empowering anti-Trump voters against the front-runner, denying that the effort to stop Mr. Trump was subverting the will of the people.
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"We have to give effect to the will of the people and leave the European Union, but that in no sense means that we are leaving Europe," Mr. Johnson told reporters.
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Nikki Haley, South Carolina governor, May 4: I have great respect for the will of the people, and as I have always said, I will support the Republican nominee for president.
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But in far too many places, the gun lobby, with its warped idea that the Second Amendment guarantees unlimited access to guns, continues to thwart the clear will of the people.
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"Cruz's broken pledge to support the will of the people tonight was one of those career-ending 'read my lips' moments," she said late Wednesday in a statement to Breitbart News.
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" Elsewhere, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said "like the majority of democratic countries," Santiago would not recognize the vote as "it does not represent the free and sovereign will of the people.
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It's true that superdelegates could hypothetically abandon their pre-announced allegiances to Clinton and opt to override the will of the people and pick Sanders, but the odds are vanishingly small.
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And it must be added that the FBI is a police power, a power that must be carefully contained and controlled if the democratic will of the people is to prevail.
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The Obama administration ended the same way the Bush administration came to a close, with liberals exploiting the U.S. courts to achieve an outcome that defies the will of the people.
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"While I respect the pope's perspective, capital punishment remains the will of the people and the law of the state of Nebraska," Mr. Ricketts said in a statement earlier this month.
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"The government, with its decision to again subvert the will of the people, is the only responsible party for the violence that threatens Bolivia," he wrote in a statement on Twitter.
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Maybe then the 2018 Democratic majority will be able to work with the Republicans left standing to ensure American lives are protected and the will of the people is finally upheld.
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My colleague Bret Stephens: There are people who believe that law, morality, traditions and institutions are at least as important to the preservation of freedom as the will of the people.
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His successor, Brad Little, has said he will honor the will of the people, but pursue efforts to contain health care costs and move people off Medicaid and into private coverage.
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It's time to raise our expectations and do the very unsexy and hard political work of ensuring, in every state, pro-choice leadership that truly represents the will of the people.
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The voters chose him and my job is to reflect the will of the people, so therefore I'm going to protect this president and do everything I can in his defense.
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The procedural and partisan gamesmanship that allowed its enactment, he argues, signals that Republicans in Congress are more compelled by personal and political interest than representing the will of the people.
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Because the will of the people is arbitrary and varying, it cannot have the consistency of real, durable law, and it creates incentives for wasteful and, worse still, left-wing government.
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Sometimes you take the Iowa caucuses for granted, and you forget that the way we pick presidents is weird and complicated and not really constructed to reflect the will of the people.
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If you&aposre actually Peter Strzok you&aposll say, "I&aposm going to shut down the will of the people in an electorate, I&aposm going to undo it in the FBI".
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Britain did not vote to take back control from Europe only for decisions to be made by a prime minister pretending somehow to channel the will of the people by intuition alone.
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Still, even on the most generous assumptions, it is reasonable to question whether the will of the people is on the side of this pale shadow of the prospectus touted in 2016.
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And in the age of Brexit it is clear that the biggest electoral danger to the Conservative Party comes from the accusation that it is not following "the will of the people".
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But even with the clock on their side, MPs seem unlikely to agree on a solution to Brexit's great riddle: what exit terms, if any, truly satisfy the will of the people?
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"I disagree with it because as I've said, millions of Kenyans queued, made their choice, and six people have decided that they will go against the will of the people," he said.
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The vast majority of Americans now support marijuana legalization, including a majority of registered Republicans, so it is time for our laws to reflect the will of the people, he now says.
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"Cross-border terror and incitement is aimed at suppressing the will of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, disrupting its political and social fabric and undermining India's integrity," India's foreign ministry said.
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Next time, just flip a coin In Virginia, elections are nice and all, but nothing expresses the will of the people quite like randomly pulling pieces of paper out of film canisters.
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Obama understands well that any steps he takes to counter Trump prior to a transition of power might not be seen to represent the will of the people — there may be backlash.
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The government says the reforms are all intended to make the courts more responsive to the will of the people — and to free the judiciary from corrupt judges or communist-era holdovers.
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He said that the Taliban appeared "intent on squandering this [opportunity], and ignoring the will of the people for peace," and called on the group to "show your commitment" to the agreement.
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It is hard to pinpoint another time in our nation's history when raw party politics has interfered so deeply with the noble goals of representative government and the will of the people.
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"The free elections clause of the North Carolina constitution guarantees that all elections must be conducted freely and honestly to ascertain, fairly and truthfully, the will of the people," the judges wrote.
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When the majority of this country supports access to abortion care, yet the government continues to attack it at state or federal levels, the will of the people is being categorically ignored.
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The founders of our government vehemently rejected a monarchy, whereby the king could do no wrong and could not be impeached or removed from his throne by the will of the people.
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"My biggest disappointment is a majority in Congress ignored the will of the people," said Pizarchik, who directed the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from 2009 through January.
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Trump scoffs at all that sort of stuff, the trappings, he would argue, of an arcane system put in place by elites who can't channel the will of the people like he can.
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"It is now abundantly clear that the lame-duck session was nothing more than an illegal power grab intended to override the will of the people," Evers said after the ruling on Tuesday.
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" "It is imperative that the Senate not allow President Obama to diminish his legacy by trying to nominate an individual who would carry on his wishes to subvert the will of the people.
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Like other candidates around the country, Ms. Chappelle-Nadal, 41, and Mr. Mckesson, 30, have presented themselves as radical alternatives to the status quo, representing the true voice and will of the people.
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While election observers found that the outcome broadly reflected "the will of the people", Djukanovic, who has dominated Montenegro's political life for a quarter for a century, has been accused of authoritarian tendencies.
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Trump's creating a false narrative that the whole thing was rigged from the beginning to deny him and the will of the people if he doesn't win the majority of delegates before Cleveland.
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"It is the will of the people of Connecticut that these guys be executed," said Senior Assistant State's Attorney Harry Weller, adding that the court made a "critical mistake" in its August decision.
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That Amendment fixed a flaw in the Electoral College that almost allowed Aaron Burr to become president in 1800 even though, in Thomas Jefferson's words, the "known will of the people" favored Jefferson.
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To the Editor: If Bernie Sanders's supporters think that the structure of the delegate system for nominating a presidential candidate is meant to overrule the will of the people, they are sadly mistaken.
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Acknowledging the electoral bloodbath that saw his ruling Barisan Nasional coalition lose over 50 seats, Najib said that he accepted the "will of the people," but also trumpeted the achievements of his government.
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"We have to give effect to the will of the people and leave the European Union, but that in no sense means that we are leaving Europe," Britain's newly minted foreign secretary said.
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Cummings, who graduated with a top degree from Oxford, says Britain's political system is broken and Brexit negotiations have been botched by officials and politicians who have thwarted the will of the people.
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We need this Congress to act on the will of the people of the island who voted, free and democratically in 2012, then again last year, in favor of statehood for the territory.
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And if Sanders passes Clinton in that count, there will surely be immense public pressure on superdelegates to carry out the "will of the people," rather than swing the nomination toward an insider.
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But in this, he is not much different from politicians on all sides who think the will of the people, no matter what percentage of the overall population Leavers actually represent, is sacrosanct.
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Less than four months ago, a Cambodian official said U.S. diplomats should "pack up and leave" after a U.S. embassy statement that the 2018 election did not reflect the will of the people.
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While this approach is new, it strikes the right balance between reflecting the will of the people of the state but also incentivizes the responsible development of America's vast and abundant natural resources.
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These adoptive forfeitures are undertaken with the clear intention to circumvent state laws governing forfeiture, overriding the will of the people and state lawmakers and imposing the federal government's will on the states.
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The Department of Justice should respect the will of the people from these states that have voted to decriminalize marijuana and refrain from interfering in state matters by prosecuting people for marijuana charges.
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All Hong Kong chief executives are somewhat trapped between enacting the will of the people they in theory represent, and following Beijing's orders when the requirements of the Chinese state contradict that will.
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Voting is the great equalizer and if the Florida legislators feared the citizens in their districts as much as they feared Hammer and the NRA they'd start representing the will of the people.
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Editorial Florida voters who heartily approved important amendments to the state Constitution can only wonder how the will of the people is being strangled by the obstructionist toils of the Republican-led Legislature.
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Ryan's "political career is over because he has so disrespected the will of the people," Palin said of the 2012 vice presidential nominee, who last week said he was "not ready" to back Trump.
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Unfortunately, the NERC later decided to ignore completely the will of the people and went on to name the polar research vessel after veteran broadcaster Sir David Attenborough — a crowdpleaser, to play it safe.
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"Today I appeal to our president to submit to the will of the people and resign," Kathrada wrote in a letter that was picked up by local media outlets following last week's court ruling.
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It kicked off with Salvini and Di Maio accusing the president of defying the will of the people and bending to foreign interference and to those who wanted to treat Italy like a colony.
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The sad thing about this commentary, it pains me to say, is what I can only describe as the new norm at the FCC: A majority that is ignoring the will of the people.
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The dutiful Mrs May set herself three tasks: obeying the "will of the people", as expressed in the referendum; leaving the EU without damaging Britain's economy; and doing all this without splitting her party.
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Trump and his supporters will meet Ryan's call to arms predictably, with ad hominem attacks on Ryan and his "establishment" ties, accusing him of ignoring the voters and subverting the will of the people.
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"The formation of this government must answer to the will of the people and move the country towards a more democratic direction," Sudarat Keyuraphan, the party's candidate for prime minister told a news conference.
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The deadline for Congress to exercise its oversight powers with the CRA has now passed, and Pai released a statement on Wednesday celebrating the triumph of corporate power over the will of the people.
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"We need to recognize the role of parliament, but ensure that the government's hands can't be tied in negotiations and that parliament does not overturn the will of the people," May told the BBC.
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Loosely speaking, this extraordinary result says that any mechanism that aims to speak for the will of the people — that is, not a dictatorship — will be susceptible to at least one of three defects.
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Peduto, Obama, and all those elected officials who serve illegality as their master instead of the will of the people who elected them may not have swallowed the lessons of the recent presidential election.
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"The United States supports all efforts aimed at finding consensual and constructive solutions that will conclude the electoral process with an outcome that reflects the will of the people," a State Department spokeswoman said.
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But in a state where the politicians do not believe there is a credible threat of being voted out of office, they can ignore the will of the people and pay no discernible price.
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In the old days of smoke-filled rooms this would have been one thing, but in our age of mostly democratic primaries and "will of the people" expectations it would have been a nightmare.
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Dewey said, "It is clear that Mr. Roosevelt has been re-elected for a fourth term, and every good American will wholeheartedly accept the will of the people," according to The New York Times.
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I'm an independent—I didn't vote for Trump or Clinton—but Clinton won the popular vote so my position is that she should be the president because that is the will of the people.
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Republican legislatures responded to the surge in civic participation by using their power to effectively overrule the will of the people—and to make it harder to enact citizen-backed reforms in the future.
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"This is about the will of the people being silenced by a concerted effort to stop reform in the city of St. Louis, and this has to be addressed," Gardner told the Associated Press.
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"We are looking for a win-win consensus and making sure we follow the will of the people, but do it in a fiscally prudent way," Herbert said Wednesday on a podcast from UtahPolicy.
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Chefs may have helped design a fast-casual menu, but they were relegated to corporate kitchens, where the collective will of the people (and the poor economy) had deflated their ambitions and their egos.
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Supporters of Brexit have said that if Brexit is reversed, the United Kingdom will be thrust into a constitutional crisis, with the financial and political elite having thwarted the democratic will of the people.
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" As for the effectiveness of today's protest, Ohanian acknowledges that Trump-appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai is "not an elected official" and "no one at the FCC is beholden to the will of the people.
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The Trump administration, by contrast, has consistently tried to run plays out of the authoritarian populist playbook — casting criticism and opposition as unpatriotic betrayals of the will of the people — without ever actually achieving popularity.
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Mr Farage's success signals the rise of a new sort of politics, which puts the will of the people before the judgment of MPs, and which emphasises questions of identity rather than technocratic problem-solving.
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But the prospect of a neutral government ignited a backlash among the two populist parties, who are view it as yet another move by special interests to control Italy against the will of the people.
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This archaic safeguard from our Founding Fathers, created to stop an unfit leader from becoming president but having the modern effect of blocking the will of the people, will have proved its harmfulness to everyone.
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"If held under current rules and conditions, a referendum on the status of Darfur cannot be considered a credible expression of the will of the people of Darfur," US State Department Spokesperson Mark Toner said.
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The Senate Commerce Committee is set to vote on the legislation this Thursday – and if our representatives truly wish to listen to the will of the people and businesses, they will move this bill forward.
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China and Taiwan have maintained an uneasy status quo for the past few decades, and President-elect Tsai says that she intends to follow the will of the people in regard to relations moving forward.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday the will of the people would prevail in Bahrain after protests there following the execution of two Shi'ite Muslim Bahraini activists over the weekend.
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But that is not stopping obstructionists within Justice Department ranks from continuing to thwart the will of President Trump, the will of Congress, and the will of the people to implement the First Step Act.
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Yet they also had the unfortunate side effect of giving credence to the prevailing idea that, no matter how deep you dig, there is always a secret, permanent government distorting the will of the people.
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"We oppose all unilateral efforts to alter the status quo and will continue to insist any resolution of differences accord with the will of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait," he said.
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We have seen many congressmen, even a few presidents, make promises about solving the matter according to the "American tradition" of fairness in the democratic processes and resolve in implementing the will of the people.
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"If held under current rules and conditions, a referendum on the status of Darfur cannot be considered a credible expression of the will of the people of Darfur," said Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman.
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In the packed Newtown High School auditorium, the moderator asked the crowd to refrain from applauding, a request he would repeat again and again that night, until he relented to the will of the people.
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Judge Kopf said granting the drug company's request would "frustrate the will of the people," referring to the 61 percent of Nebraska voters who chose to reinstate capital punishment in 2016 after lawmakers abolished it.
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"I urge Kenyan leaders to reject violence and incitement; respect the will of the people; urge security forces to act professionally and neutrally; and work together no matter the outcome," he said in a statement.
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"Our system was designed to reflect the will of the people ... And the Speaker's job is to ensure the system is open and [lawmakers] are given a fair opportunity to present their amendments," he continued.
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The populists, no matter how narrowly elected, assume that electoral victory was the will of the people and, in a terrible irony, a license to trample on the same democracy that raised them to power.
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Slavitt: Because we need to use the grassroots and the will of the people to change the politics and to use the politics and to translate what people really want and believe into political change.
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Then a combination of elite failure and popular pressure makes that tension ripe for exploitation, and some new figure or movement emerges, promising to follow the will of the people and override the ruling class.
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In the United States, failing so far to get his border wall, President Trump — as populist leaders often do when institutions stand in their way — has portrayed Congress as opposing the will of the people.
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It would mean that in effect, Sanders would be lobbying a small group of party elites to overturn the "will of the people" despite failing to win a majority of pledged delegates or votes nationwide.
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"Power-hungry politicians rushed through sweeping changes to our laws to expand their own power and override the will of the people of Wisconsin who asked for change on November 2000th," Evers said in a statement.
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There has always been more to democratic self-government than "majority rules," but the notion of will of the people is a powerful one, one that asserts democratic accountability as the core to a free society.
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"The Bahraini government is expected to seriously consider his (Qassim's) influence and moral authority, respect the will of the people, and cease pressures on Bahraini Muslim scholars," IRNA quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi as saying.
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"Keep in mind that by the 'will' of the people this ticket is undeniably, truly, the will of the American people," he said in the May 10 article for The Call & Post, his Ohio-based publication.
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"If the Mexican state is not able to guarantee that the will of the people is respected, then you don't have democracy," said Antonio Orozco Guadarrama, secretary-general of the leftist Revolutionary Democratic Party in Guerrero.
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Timothy Egan After foraging through the Dumpster of discarded ideas, the Trump administration has dragged out another fetid reject as part of its campaign to roll back modernity, common sense and the will of the people.
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But the legislature has contravened the will of the people, once again disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of returning citizens through a bill that imposes an antiquated poll tax on them in the form of court fees.
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"The PM believes that her cabinet and her government are working hard to deliver on the will of the people and working hard to take back control of our money, laws and our borders," she said.
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GIULIO VARSIBaxter Estates, New York You listed a number of instances where evoking the will of the people "marks the user out not as a democrat but as a scoundrel" ("Down with the people", October 5th).
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McCarthy, on the other hand, picked three Jewish billionaires, none of whom were running for president at the time, and implied that the election was between the three of them and the will of the people.
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If it did, every party figure would have been outraged by the candidates' insistence that the will of the people expressed by a popular vote is meaningful only if it puts them over the delegate threshold.
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This fast-and-furious assault on tens of millions of acres of national monuments, cultural sites and other iconic lands ignores the department's mandate to conserve certain lands as well as the will of the people.
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Would it really be so crazy for party leaders to decide that current polling is a better reflection of the will of the people than months-old landslide Clinton victories in big states like Texas and Florida?
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" Such beliefs, Nimmo noted, were reflective of the alt-right's "very strong preference for conspiracy theories" and their "abiding belief in the 'Deep State' and 'neocon' conspiracies to hold onto power against The Will Of The People.
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Conventional opinion will be turned on its head, as liberals rediscover the virtues of a revising chamber of experienced public servants (the meritocracy incarnate!), while conservatives rant about doddery old fools frustrating the will of the people.
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The result turbo-charged the most dangerous idea to which a democracy can fall victim: the fallacy that "the will of the people" forms a single, unitary intelligence, issuing instructions to which all must bend the knee.
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"Fidesz and the Christian Democratic Party believe the appropriate, honest and necessary step is to give legal weight to the will of the people ... Therefore, I am initiating an amendment to the constitution," he said, without elaborating.
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" Trump Jr. then compared the Brexit delay to the political environment in the United States, calling it "an example of how the establishment elites try to subvert the will of the people when they're given the chance.
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"The Legislature overplayed its hand by using an unlawful process to accumulate more power for itself and override the will of the people, despite the outcome of last November's election," Evers said in a post on Twitter.
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Most tellingly, he argues that since an elected government represents the will of the people — and since civil society should strive to fulfill the people's will — then civil society exists to carry out a ruling party's manifesto.
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And what is democracy itself if not a government formed by the will of the people and designed to protect their rights — the rights of all of them, whether they are in the majority or the minority?
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Americans, many of whom had escaped the stultifying tyranny of feudal Europe, cast off the mantle of monarchy and declared that government derived, not from the whims of an emperor, but from the will of the people.
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In late September, riding a wave of anti-corruption popular sentiment — all of Peru's living former presidents are facing corruption charges — President Martin Vizcarra dissolved Congress, viewed as corrupt and divorced from the will of the people.
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"We think our system is stronger when it honors fundamental fairness, treats the privileged and poor alike, and upholds the will of the people as reflected in the laws they enact through their legislators," Todd-Medina said.
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After a presidential election that, to many Americans, hinged on Trump's efforts to reduce federal government overreach, as well as his willingness to listen to and respect the will of the people, this is a devastating development.
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Government represents the will of the majority of the people, but the truth should not be subordinated to the will of the people, because people very often will the truth to be something other than it is.
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"The result they (IEC) announced today was a result of election robbery, a coup against democracy, a betrayal of the will of the people, and we consider it illegal," he told a news conference following the announcement.
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Supporters of Brexit have said that if Brexit is reversed, the United Kingdom will be thrust into a constitutional crisis as what they say the financial and political elite will have thwarted the democratic will of the people.
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And so any objections to the country's new direction are now met with the simple injunction that Westminster must deliver "the will of the people", as opposed to what is perceived to be the preference of the elite.
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Evers slammed the decision as a politically-motivated "attack on the will of the people, our democracy, and our system of government," while Republican legislative leaders called the failed challenge a special interest-driven waste of taxpayer money.
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Trump ran on a law-and- order platform, and if Mayor Peduto refuses to listen to the will of the people, he'll very soon have a president and attorney general with the will and who understand that mandate.
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" Again and again, Trump held up Poland as an example, saying their history reminds the world that "the defense of the West ultimately rests not only on means but also on the will of the people to prevail.
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"What we saw yesterday was an electoral farce that in no way represents the will of the people," said Popular Will party leader Juan Andres Mejia, citing abuse of state resources and coercion of government employees to vote.
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In Nigeria, the will of the people, which lies at the very heart of democracy, appears to be a conditioned will, one that does not extend to even a mild tinkering with the constituent parts of the nation.
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In nearly every case, whatever their specific agendas, populist leaders claim to represent the will of "the people," and therefore believe they are empowered to ride roughshod over any person, institution or law that gets in their way.
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"The detachment (or excision) of the Chagos Archipelago was carried out without any regard to the will of the people of Mauritius, including those who lived in the Chagos Archipelago," Mauritius said in a submission to the court.
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"I must emphasize, the results of the past election absolutely do not represent that the will of the people at the grass-roots level seeks to give up our sovereignty," she said in a New Year's Day address.
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"It is now incumbent on leaders to implement the will of the people and to do so in a way that is responsible, sensitive, thoughtful and - I hope - strategic," Kerry said, speaking alongside EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.
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Between the lines: May is positioning herself as the adult in the room, and her Brexit solution as the only way to respect the will of the people while limiting the economic damage of a hard split with Brussels.
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But anti-TTIP activists warn that ISDS could be used to subvert democracy, canceling the will of the people if a new law — such as one regulating environmental or health concerns — is found to unduly hurt a company's profits.
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This text exchange shows beyond any doubt that unelected bureaucrats wanted to use their immensely powerful investigative authority to actively try to subvert the will of the people about who should become the next president of the United States.
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Behind this paean to the will of the people is a concern that Mr Garland, though 63 and a centrist, would tip the balance of the Supreme Court away from the narrow conservative majority once anchored by Mr Scalia.
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When asked by a member of the audience if the candidates will buck party for the "will of the people," Donnelly highlighted his record of siding with Trump, saying he's voted with the president 62 percent of the time.
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The sign on the left above is a quote from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Republicans say proves that Democrats are engaged in a coup, trying to override the will of the people and unjustly remove Trump from office.
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Roger Hill's documentary lays out how the battleground state of Ohio was delivered to the Republicans, highlighting the myriad ways US elections are stacked against the will of the people — the Electoral College, voter suppression, ballot stuffing, and more.
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Mohagher Iqbal, the MILF's top peace negotiator, said on TV on Thursday that he hoped radical splinters of the separatist group, like those of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), would recognize the will of the people for peace.
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"Today Tunisians said their word and wanted to change the power system... we have to respect the will of the people... Nabil Karoui will be in the second round... we won," Hatem Mliki, a spokesman for Karoui, told reporters.
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The press does not exist to serve the needs of presidents but rather to hold them to account and inform the body politic of the actions and pronouncements of those charged with carrying out the will of the people.
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Antifa's goals and tactics are unquestionably antithetical to American values and a direct threat to our system of government built on free speech, individual liberty and a representative government that reflects the will of the people while protecting minorities.
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Johnson defied critics by striking a new deal with the EU but was unable to navigate the maze of a divided British parliament and was defeated by opponents whom he portrayed as traitors subverting the will of the people.
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Jeffries cited Democrats taking over the majority of the House of Representatives earlier this year as a result of the 2018 midterm elections as pointing to the "will of the people" being to place a check on Trump's power.
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The "deep state" — a term that Mr. Trump has used — refers to the idea of a secretive cabal of unelected government bureaucrats, particularly in law enforcement and intelligence agencies, to subvert the president and the will of the people.
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The bill barreling through the Utah Legislature was "an effort to override the will of the people," said Matthew Slonaker, the executive director of the Utah Health Policy Project, a nonprofit group that supported the full expansion of Medicaid.
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His comments drew sharp rebuke from Rodrigo Maia, the speaker of the lower house of Congress, who called the government a "crisis factory" and said the collective will of the people had prevailed over the wishes of one person.
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Like Cameron, she had campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU. But after her appointment as prime minister in July 2016 she promised to respect the will of the people and navigate a route out of the bloc.
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The vote "demonstrates the power of corporate influence to overcome what is clearly the will of the people and the intent of the legislation," Jon Holden, president of the International Association of Machinists District 751, which represents about 31,000 Boeing workers.
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DUBAI, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Top Iranian pro-reform politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a message two days after elections in which reformists made strong gains, said on Twitter on Sunday that no one could resist the will of the people.
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There is a good reason that America's Founding Fathers, whom Mr Carswell so admires, built up checks and balances to the will of the people: the people are often moved by short-term passions, swayed by demagogues, deceived by rumours.
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But the Brexit faction of her party has abandoned conservatism for Jacobinism, denouncing the House of Lords and the judiciary for frustrating the "will of the people" and badmouthing civil servants such as Olly Robbins, the prime minister's Brexit adviser.
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Liberals certainly need to do more to listen to the will of the people: the Brexit mess would never have happened if Brussels had paid more attention to the rising cries of discontent across Europe and moderated its ambitions accordingly.
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But partly under pressure from Jobbik, an extreme right-wing party founded in 2003, and increasingly citing "the will of the people", Mr Orban has taken to demonising immigrants and minorities (particularly Muslims), attacking the judiciary and disenfranchising sources of dissent.
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"We know the pope wants to go there and we know that the situation has improved a little, especially after the agreement was signed, and also because of the good will of the people who are involved the situation," Parolin said.
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Ivanov in turn, refused to give the mandate to form a government to the newly formed parliamentary majority, led by Zoran Zaev, president of the SDSM opposition party in coalition with two Albanian parties, thus ignoring the will of the people.
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An election monitoring mission sent by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) found that the vote "reflected the will of the people", even though media had lacked editorial independence in covering a campaign "permeated by personal attacks".
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"Which is why I am so determined to deliver now on the promises of that 2016 referendum campaign: not just to honour the will of the people, but to increase the cash available for this amazing national institution," he wrote.
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She said in doing so, the government would make sure that "the government's hand in negotiations cannot be tied by parliament" and that parliament could not be allowed to overturn "the will of the people" to leave the European Union.
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"After nearly 14 years and his recent attempt to override the Bolivian constitution and the will of the people, Morales's departure preserves democracy and paves the way for the Bolivian people to have their voices heard," Trump said in a statement.
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"The Legislature overplayed its hand by using an unlawful process to accumulate more power for itself and override the will of the people, despite the outcome of last November's election," Evers said in a series of tweets following the ruling.
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"It's time for us to put aside partisan bickering, and get to work on a budget that reflects the will of the people and provides some certainty for businesses and communities in the year ahead," Wittman said in a statement.
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They better think long and hard" The last message he retweeted was also sent to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, warning that millions would "burn their Republican registration" if the GOP "continues to subvert the will of the people.
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A turning point came at the end of the decade when Mugabe, by now a leader unaccustomed to accommodating the will of the people, suffered his first major defeat at the hands of voters, in a referendum on another constitution.
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By arguing that the "will of the people" matters more than the rights of minorities or the conventions of the constitution, the Tories have supplied Mr Corbyn with the weapons he needs to push through a radical hard-left programme.
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Already, his justice minister, Ayelet Shaked of the New Right party, has been lambasting the Supreme Court's powers, portraying it as the liberal elite's means to dilute the will of the people and accusing it of a "coup" against democracy.
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Anyway, the will of the people on health care is clear: Whatever qualms voters may have had about Obamacare, a strong majority want to keep and expand the gains in coverage that America has achieved since the law went into effect.
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Supporters of Brexit fought back, including Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative lawmaker, who argued that Mr. Chapman wanted to overturn the will of the people, and said that rather than the Democrats, his party should more accurately be called the Oligarchs.
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Torra, who earlier this week said Catalonia should hold a new vote on independence within two years, said on Saturday the will of the people would be respected: "We will go as far as the people of Catalonia want to go".
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Republicans denied wrongdoing by Trump, questioned the credibility of a career diplomat who said he overheard Trump asking if Ukraine would carry out investigations and argued that Democrats aimed to thwart the will of the people by ousting the president.
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"For months I made it clear I would honor the will of the people" Little said in his State of the State address last month, noting he will also pursue plans to move people off Medicaid and into private coverage.
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Even with all of our stumbles and missteps, our nation has served for more than two centuries as a temple for democracy representing the will of the people and a sacred trust upholding the fundamental principles of liberty, justice and union.
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Johnson himself was combative after the ruling, telling reporters in New York on Tuesday that he strongly disagreed with the Supreme Court justices, and complaining that there were many people trying to thwart Brexit against the will of the people.
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DeSantis had said in December the Republican-controlled legislature would need to pass a law to implement the ballot measure approved by voters, drawing the ire of Democrats who accused him of trying to subvert the will of the people.
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"There is still time for (Corbyn) ... to do that and explain to the people of this country how he proposes to honor his promise that he made repeatedly and deliver on the will of the people and get Brexit done," Johnson told parliament.
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In fact, the country remains deeply divided—more than 230% of Britons still think that Brexit was a mistake—whereas the biggest opposition party, Labour, has sided with Mrs May in accepting "the will of the people" as expressed in the referendum.
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Constitutional wonks will be quick to note the U.S. is not a "direct," but rather a "representative democracy" -- meaning there is, be it in electing presidents or passing laws, a legally enshrined buffer between the will of the people and political outcomes.
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"The Background Check Act has not been enforced and remains in limbo, contravening the will of the people of Nevada who exercised their constitutional right to change the law to promote public safety and protect the communities of this state," the lawsuit says.
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The gulf between the will of the powerful and the will of the people has become too large, and the person who is willing to say that clearly will have buzz in their favor, as Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has also found.
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She respects the democracy of the Iron Islands, participating in that voting system until it becomes clear that the will of the people is being thwarted by her Trumpian uncle Euron Greyjoy, who won't hesitate to kill her to suit his needs.
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In the eight years that followed, what he didn't count on was the American peoples' inherent defiance to federal coercion and the overarching power of individual rights to bend government and society to the will of the people and the rule of law.
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"I'm here so that justice and the will of the people is carried out, because we elected Salvador Nasralla, and Juan Orlando Hernandez wants to steal his victory," said 22-year-old David Ramirez, a red political flag draped over his shoulder.
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At what he said would be his last EU summit, Cameron told a news conference that as a democrat he had accepted the will of the people and other leaders had also respected the choice in a mood "of sadness and regret".
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Pierluisi has also filed HR 727, an admission bill aimed at granting Puerto Rico statehood accordingly to the will of the people expressed in the 2012 status referendum when the majority of the voters rejected the current colonial status in favor of statehood.
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TV. "That's what happens when you don't do the will of the people, you do the will of a very small fringe of your party," she added, referring to the state's "fetal heart bill," which was signed into law by Georgia Gov.
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Sean Spicer tells dissenting diplomats "they can go" Fear returns to Wall Street Trump will keep Obama's LGBTQ executive order Only 34% of Hillary voters say election reflected the "will of the people" Warren Buffett bets $12 billion on the Trump rally
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While the leaders of democracies from around the world condemned the violence seen in the streets on Wednesday and called on the governments of Hong Kong and China to heed the will of the people, President Trump had a slightly different message.
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On the afternoon of Election Day, he announced to the country that Fonseka was planning an armed coup to thwart the will of the people, and ordered Sri Lankan troops to surround the luxury hotel where the general and his entourage were staying.
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If the virus is still active on Election Day, they worry that could devastate turnout, leading to widespread doubt the outcome reflects the will of the people and damaging faith in the electoral process even more than potential Russian hacking and disinformation.
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"I think it's a useless exercise, because we have seen that the Trump administration and Congress have not showed the slightest interest in the process itself, much less the will of the people of Puerto Rico," said Nestor Duprey, a political analyst here.
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The spectacle of an Irish leader opining on the dysfunction of British politics — not to mention brushing aside Mr. Johnson's oft-repeated vow to carry out the will of the people by delivering Brexit — does not sit well with many in Britain.
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The will of the people, as told to pollsters and as reflected in election results at the state and national levels, is not for a sharp crackdown on legal businesses that have been given every indication they would be allowed to continue.
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However, the government is confident the bill will pass through the Lords because there would be a constitutional crisis if unelected peers were to thwart the will of the people expressed both through the referendum and from their representatives in the Commons.
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" Apple added that the order had broad implications that would "inflict significant harm — to civil liberties, society and national security — and would pre-empt decisions that should be left to the will of the people through laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.
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Because once any problem that the country has before you took power is explained by the corruption of your political enemy, and any attempt to resist your rule as an illegitimate betrayal of the will of the people, the path to autocracy is laid.
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Intermediaries such as political parties and public interest groups have a key role to play in maintaining a balance between popular forces and experienced leadership, while creating pathways for the will of the people to be reflected in policymaking and creating tangible opportunities for engagement.
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On June 12th, almost two years to the day after Jo Cox, a Labour MP, was murdered by a deranged neo-Nazi for her "treason", the Daily Express splashed the headline "Ignore the will of the people at your peril" on its front page.
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The millennial conflict saw government deception go against the will of the people – across the globe up to 30 million took part in an anti-Iraq War march, the "the largest protest event in human history" – in pursuit of fabled weapons of mass destruction.
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"The PM believes that her cabinet and her government are working hard to deliver on the will of the people and working hard to take back control of our money, laws and our borders," she said, adding that she did not comment on leaked material.
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At the heart of this change will be the technologies that are put in our hands so that we have a voice and can collaborate to take action and restore what true democracy must be — fair, empowering and executed with the will of the people.
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"I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it's time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president," she told reporters at the time.
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St. Pier also believes that change is unavoidable: "Governments can choose to lead or they can choose to follow the will of the people; either way, giving terminally ill individuals their right to informed end of life choices is inevitable," he wrote in a tweet.
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Asked how Trump would work with Ryan on Capitol Hill if both men were to be elected without Trump endorsing the House speaker, campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Tuesday that she would expect congressional Republicans to support the will of the people.
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This election is going to tell us the will of the people, but it is not the kind before which we must stop everything we are doing — appointing judges to supreme courts, say — and wait with bated breath for the people to weigh in.
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At that time, the will of the people of Puerto Rico was not enacted due to bureaucracy in Congress and efforts made by the soon-to-be ex-governor of the island, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, who refused to enact on the results of the referendum.
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One result of the gender imbalance in discussions is that democratic institutions may not accurately reflect the will of the people, especially on issues of particular concern to women, such as care for children, older people and the disabled, scholars and female officials say.
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Despite state media trumpeting the near-unanimous vote by parliament this week to end term limits as reflecting the common "will of the people", an undercurrent of anger and even despair online and in cities reflects less than universal acclaim among the broader public.
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Secessionists hold a slim majority in the Catalan parliament, but those who want to remain a part of Spain feel the decision to hold a referendum, let alone break away from Spain, is itself an undemocratic move that doesn't represent the will of the people.
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"We'd vote against Article 50 if our 'red line' is not met ... which is we want to respect the will of the people and that means they must have their say on a referendum on the terms of the deal," he told BBC radio.
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"I don't think it is something we would want to do and I think it's very unlikely ... What's really scandalous about this is the way people have been trying to sabotage the will of the people and break their promises," he told Sky News.
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By goading his opponents into blocking his Brexit efforts, Johnson could then plan to run a campaign in which he will present himself as the champion of Brexit, seeking to implement the will of the people against a remainer Parliament determined to block him.
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Implicit in the "take back control" message employed by the "Brexiteers" were themes promoted by populist-right movements everywhere: a reassertion of national sovereignty coupled with the claim that only those who advocate this represent the true will of the people against a globalized elite.
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Among the dozen or so protesters outside the Statehouse was Rachel Ramone Donlan, 45, a Braintree resident who said she and other cannabis activists were "100 percent outraged" that, as she put it, a small group of lawmakers had undone the will of the people.
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The country has sleepwalked, in other words, into a nightmare situation in which a crude and binary democratic exercise, far from reflecting the unified will of the people, has ended up allowing a minority of extremists and obsessives to steer the ship of state.
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Topping it off, the government has grown increasingly authoritarian, rejecting the will of the people by emasculating the congress they elected, intensely repressing protests, killing scores of young people, injuring thousands and arresting thousands more, hundreds of whom remain behind bars as political prisoners.
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An ancient, robust democracy is groaning under the weight of conflicting demands — on the executive, to carry out the will of the people; and on the members of Parliament, to follow their conscience and to act in what they believe to be the people's interest.
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It is a canard, a falsehood, a fairy tale, and a steamy pile of BS." Stone said the parallels between Nixon's downfall and the attempted "deep-state takedown" of Trump—where spies and FBI agents supposedly undermine the will of the people—are "eerie.
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"Gerrymandering is a good thing because it means the people who won elections are supporting the will of the people in drawing district lines," Adams, now president of the conservative Public Interest Legal Foundation that specializes in election law and voter fraud cases, told Fox News.
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As Mr Presser writes, Scalia believed the law and constitution should be followed by interpreting both as they were understood at the time they were enacted rather than stretched by unelected judges, since original intent was the best means of implementing the will of the people.
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Especially given that Fogelman, in the same interview, suggested that the media has not adequately recognized the merits of his acclaimed, award-winning series This Is Us, and that there's a "group speak" conspiracy against his work that does not reflect the real will of the people.
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"There is a level of confidence that on a second ballot or thereafter, that 15 of the 16 will continue with Mr. Trump, because in the end, it is the will of the people of the state of Delaware that must be carried on," Copeland said.
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Almost three years and tens of millions of dollars have been wasted on this witch hunt and it is now even more apparent that Democrats are completely consumed with their hatred of the President and their obsession with overturning the will of the people who elected him.
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The establishment has done everything it could to frustrate the will of the people, often working in secret with the Brussels bureaucrats, with businesspeople stirring up fear of economic calamity and Olly Robbins, Mrs May's chief adviser on Brexit, massaging her into a more Euro-friendly position.
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"The will of the people must be respected and it must be implemented ... There is no legal obligation to consult parliament on triggering Article 50 - that position has been well set out," the spokesman told reporters, adding that parliament had overwhelmingly backed holding the EU referendum.
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However, many of them are heavily critical of a party primary process they see as "rigged" against the will of the people and also more likely to be seeking an alternative party where their voice is guaranteed to be heard, or abandon political parties all together.
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After a contested 2014 election, two rival Libyan parliaments, an Islamist-dominated body based in Tripoli and an internationally recognized legislature based in the eastern city of Tobruk, both claimed to represent the democratic will of the people as militias loyal to either side fought for supremacy.
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The suggestion that a powerful special interest is blocking the will of the people to protect the bottom lines of corporations at the expense of individual safety is broadly true, but still somewhat misleading: It overstates the power of the NRA, while understating the power of voters.
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His Wednesday tweet suggested that the U.S. constitution, which contains a right to free assembly in its first amendment, equips him with tools to suppress protest movements that run counter to the "will of the people," more of whom wanted Clinton to be president than Trump.
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While the vote is a non-binding plebiscite, the 15-member Calgary city council, who will meet on Monday to vote on whether to move the bid process forward, is expected to bow to the will of the people, even if the margin of victory is narrow.
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"Although the Governor may believe implementation to be unwise and disagree with the Act as a matter of policy, he may not ignore the will of the people and refuse to take any action toward accomplishing the policy objectives of the Act," Murphy wrote in the opinion.
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In this view, "your opponents are not just somebody that you differ with on policy, it's that they're somehow trying to undermine the will of the people," said Sheri Berman, a professor of political science at Barnard College who studies Europe's descent into fascism in the 1930s.
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The only way for stability to return is for Beijing to grant us free and fair elections Our anger is not just against the extradition bill itself; it is directed all the more against the undemocratic government that continues to ignore the will of the people.
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What remains is a House remarkably insulated from national electoral swings — a contrast with the founding fathers' image of a chamber more susceptible to the will of the people, said Michael Li, an expert on redistricting and senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program.
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Interesting name for a group of about three dozen members that refuses to let the will of the people advance on the House floor, a group that Mr. Trump himself scolded on Twitter on Thursday for undermining the Republican agenda, and our party as a whole.
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"It is impossible for me or, in my view, any responsible politician in Taiwan to accept President Xi Jinping's recent remarks without betraying the trust and the will of the people of Taiwan," Ms. Tsai said in a briefing for foreign reporters in Taipei, Taiwan's capital.
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READ: Palin on Trump VP talk: 'I want to help and not hurt' "His political career is over but for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people, and as the leader of the GOP, the convention, certainly he is to remain neutral," Palin said.
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"Only a new mandate from the South Korean people and the energy of a new administration empowered to implement the political will of the people will enable South Korea to overcome its current problems," said Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies at the Council of Foreign Relations.
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The truth is that our so-called democracy is more of pseudo-democracy, with ridiculously gerrymandered districts, large-scale voter suppression tactics, unequal representation, an Electoral College system that disregards the popular will of the people, and fake news sources that play to echo chambers and voter ignorance.
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It is also hard to reconcile with the premise that, in a democracy, the will of the people should decide who governs, and do so unobstructed by a system put in place more than 200 years ago by a political class for whom "democracy" was a dirty word.
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By pardoning and commuting the sentences of more than 1,300 people who were found to have broken the law, Obama has effectively undermined the justice systems of the states and disregarded the will of the people who voted for representatives who enacted the laws used to convict these criminals.
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Even if each individual has consistent preferences, they can vary among voters in such a way that, in two-way races, candidate A would beat candidate B, candidate B would beat candidate C, and yet candidate C would beat candidate A. What, then, is the "will of the people"?
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Mr. House has been hearing from angry voters from across the state and country who say they think the will of the people was ignored because Colorado's system of caucuses, a multistep process that ended on Saturday, left the selection of the state's presidential nominating delegates to party activists.
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Having worked on political campaigns around the world — including in the flawed 2008 and 2013 elections in Zimbabwe — we know and understand well the consequences of not having a global spotlight and the pressure that often accompanies it, which forces leaders to abide by the will of the people.
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"We are not going to let a Republican majority that does not represent the will of the people just run over this country and I think it has shown up in health care, and I think it's now going to show up in the tax fight," Warren added.
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The resolution, presented by Senegal, which has a rotating seat on the council, offers "its full support to the Ecowas in its commitment to ensure by political means first the respect of the will of the people" of Gambia in the election that ousted Mr. Jammeh from office.
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If the opposition wants to govern in the future, it must learn and adapt, reshaping its platform to be more in line with the will of the people, a will that can be misguided in some ways but that reflects fundamental and profound desires about politics and policy.
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But the costs of delay are rising: economic paralysis and delayed investment, the crowding out of the British parliamentary agenda and, perhaps most dangerously, the alienation of the 52% who voted "leave" in the June 2016 Brexit referendum and increasingly think Parliament is intent on thwarting the will of the people.
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Populist leaders from Donald Trump in the U.S. to Marine Le Pen in France have hailed the decision by 52 percent of Brits to leave the EU last Thursday, saying that the will of the people had been made clear and have been emboldened by the vote to leave the bloc.
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There are always scolds who lament the coverage of campaign "distractions," but not only are these people grumps, they're also in denial, because if you read even a little bit about social choice theory, it's clear that elections have only the most tenuous ties to the will of the people.
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Hence the censured leader of the larger party would still continue to lead the government—in direct opposition to the majority vote and on the basis of help received from one of the small parties whose policies, in theory, may be far removed from "representing the will of the people".
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By this reasoning, what is or is not just should be determined not by "elitist" judges, but rather by the people themselves, and the will of the people is best expressed through their intermediaries — specifically, by their elected representatives through statutory text and by the Founding Fathers through constitutional text.
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The governing platform of the GOP, adopted in the party's national convention this past July, and ratified by the voters in the general election, states that the Republican Party will respect and promote the will of the people of Puerto Rico, free and democratically expressed in the before mentioned status referendum.
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" (Christian Science Monitor breakfast on 11/30) "If the allegations are known prior to the election, which they weren't in the case of Al Franken, for example, then we have a very tough decision to make about whether it's our role as senators to overturn the will of the people.
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Impeachment, by its nature, represents the ultimate test of American democracy, a titanic clash between two branches of government over whether the nation's leader has done such damage to the integrity of the Republic that the will of the people as expressed in our complicated election system should be overturned.
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"I believe strongly that in democracy we should respect the will of the people, and to me that means it's time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president," she said at the time, shortly after her own election to the Senate.
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"We are not going to let a Republican majority that does not represent the will of the people just run over this country and I think it has shown up in health care, and I think it's now going to show up in the tax fight," she said, Politico reported.
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Slogans like "will of the people" and "leave means leave" still dominate the local lexicon, and almost to a man, the regulars will be voting for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party next month in the hope of getting Brexit over the line before the extended deadline of January 222.
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As the bipartisan group of lawmakers emphasized throughout the call, the idea of the Department of Justice going after legal marijuana businesses in the eight states—and the District of Colombia—that have voted to legalize the drug infringes on states' rights and goes against the will of the people.
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If they start feeling the pressure to follow the will of the people, we may start seeing some changes on the federal level, which ultimately is where things need to change for workplace rights as well as a lot of other aspects of this that are still hamstrung by federal policy.
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Remember, then candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE publicly expressed his support for the will of the people of Puerto Rico.
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"Seven in 10 Americans believe that abortion should remain legal and accessible, yet the anti-choice GOP remains obsessed with ignoring the will of the people and using every tool at their disposal, including the courts, to chip away at our fundamental rights," the group's spokeswoman Kaylie Hanson Long said in a statement.
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Continuing to attack reproductive freedom by blocking abortion access and limiting access to contraception isn't the will of the people, but a priority on the agenda of a small few in positions of power who want to stir widespread anger and deny Americans access to medical care to hold onto that power.
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Conservatives, like Chief Justice John Roberts, have suggested the courts steer clear of such political disputes altogether, while liberals, like Justice Elena Kagan, contend that courts should be able to articulate a standard to combat a practice that they believe enables politicians to entrench themselves in power against the will of the people.
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"We are confident that the court will ultimately rule against the Legislature's unconstitutional attempt to override the will of the people," Melissa Baldauff told the AP. State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R), who has yet to have the Republican-led chamber vote on any of Evers's appointees, praised the court's decision.
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He argued that EU leaders should not try to keep Britain in and so undo the result of its 2016 referendum, saying it would send the wrong message to voters in next month's European Parliament elections who are tempted by populists vowing to oust unelected technocrats ignoring the will of the people.
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And many say the negotiations — and Mr. Johnson's call for Brexit at any cost — are just ruses, aimed at a general election in which he can frame himself as the candidate who made an earnest effort to deliver on the will of the people versus the career politicians and others in Westminster.
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" In the case of Brexit, nonetheless, that "doctrine" has been driven home relentlessly for the last seven months by newspaper barons like Rupert Murdoch, the Barclay brothers (proprietors of The Daily Telegraph) and Paul Dacre (editor of The Daily Mail), whose outlets insist that the Brexit vote represents the "will of the people.
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Some on both sides of the debate are now using the politics of contrived outrage to argue their point: Johnson says parliament is betraying the will of the people over Brexit while opponents cast him a dictator who has ridden roughshod over democracy to take the United Kingdom to the brink of ruin.
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It gives all lawmakers the ability to scrutinize the plan the government has for the discussions with the EU. Thursday's paper builds on a speech given by Prime Minister Theresa May in January, setting out the 12 principles which will guide the government "in fulfilling the democratic will of the people of the U.K." 1.
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"Starting the new parliamentary session with the Withdrawal Bill shows that it is now the job of all MPs, including my former colleagues on the Stronger In campaign, to respect the will of the people and get the best possible deal for Britain," Damian Green was quoted as saying by the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
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"Despite the best attempts by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice to intimidate state governments, the recent votes in Vermont and New Hampshire demonstrate that legislators are ignoring this bluster and are standing up for the will of the people," Erik Altieri, of marijuana advocacy group NORML, said in a statement.
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But in a time where many are fed up with a gridlocked Washington that is more attuned to corporate America than the will of the people, running the consummate Washington insider against a populist outsider who wanted to fix Washington and bring back jobs, turned out to be a political blunder of epic proportions.
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Just ask Ted Cruz, by whose strange and self-serving logic it is "the will of the people" (his actual words) that he and John Kasich collude to prevent Trump from amassing a majority of delegates so that some runner-up with less demonstrable support can leapfrog past him to become the Republican presidential nominee.
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Yet what brought Mr. Morales down was not his ideology or foreign meddling, as he claimed, but the arrogance of the populist, evident in so many other parts of the world — the claim to be the ultimate arbiter of the will of the people, entitled to crush any institution that stands in his way.
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In summary, what people are talking about is getting 37 Republican Party activists expected to vote for Trump to essentially steal the election for Hillary Clinton in defiance of the will of the people in their states and the widely recognized rules of the presidential contest, even though Clinton herself doesn't want them to.
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The End Of Protest, after putting Occupy in (fascinating) historical context, identifies the reason that protests fail as a kind of entitled naivete — the bizarre belief that if you get a million people out onto the street demonstrating, then governments will have to respect that and change course, because it clearly represents the will of the people.
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"His political career is over but for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people, and as the leader of the GOP, the convention, certainly he is to remain neutral, and for him to already come out and say who he will not support is not a wise decision of his," Palin continued.
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Both May and her main rival, the Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn, have decided to treat the referendum result as reflecting the will of the people and have rejected the idea of doing another vote, even though government officials are now questioning if the country will have enough food to feed itself and enough medicine to stock its hospitals.
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Just as Reclaim Idaho believes in its capacity to enact the will of the people, so, too, did the tea party — and they enacted that will through sweeping electoral gains in Idaho, including the 2010 primary upset by Labrador, and his subsequent victory over centrist Democrat Walt Minnick for one of Idaho's two seats in the House.
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Not long after the vote tally was completed, Prime Minister David Cameron, who led the campaign to remain in the bloc, appeared in front of 2000 Downing Street on Friday morning to announce that he planned to step down by October, saying the country deserved a leader committed to carrying out the will of the people.
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"If we go to a system where we have a brokered convention or something that thwarts the will of the people, the Republican Party will be so fractured that there is no way, I don't care who you put in there, that we're going to win," he said of the GOP presidential convention in Cleveland in July.
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We have a chance to help get things right in the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly if we can temper our enthusiasm for instant electoral gratification, and get behind a practical plan to ensure the long-term viability of democratic institutions, so that the will of the people in this war torn nation can at last be realized.
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The problem is that a system where electors feel free to override the will of the people if they don't like it — an idea idealized by many liberals who dreamed of a deus ex machina to block Trump from the White House — is also a system open to the somewhat random whims of those 538 people.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher The United States says that the suspected chemical weapons attack on the rebel-held town of Douma, Syria, this month was part of a military push by President Bashar al-Assad's government to break the will of the people still living there.
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"It's been our opinion that when you have primaries with open processes we do very well, and we're heading into another part of the season where that's the case so we're happy the New York primary is coming up, the Pennsylvania primary is coming up where we can stop talking about rules and start talking about the will of the people," Brookover said.
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When it comes to rebuilding the economy so that it works for American families, having a court that adheres to the Constitution and respects the will of the people, and creating a government that is accountable to the people and not corrupted by its service of the politically-connected, Trump is far superior to Hillary on just about every measure.
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For more than 40 years, the participants in the movement that I am associated with — called Hizmet, the Turkish word for "service" — have advocated for, and demonstrated their commitment to, a form of government that derives its legitimacy from the will of the people and that respects the rights of all citizens regardless of their religious views, political affiliations or ethnic origins.
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"In the United States, our elections are sacred and our elections supervisors are democratically elected — the Governor's recent power grab, removing Democrats from elected positions, including Susan Bucher, should be seen for what it is, a gross overreach and a politically motivated move to consolidate power and obstruct the will of the people," said Terrie Rizzo, the chair of the Florida Democratic Party.
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Whereas Democrats in 1998 frantically searched for promiscuous lawmakers and spoke of coup by impeachment and overturning the will of the people, Republicans today are casting about to find prior attempts to use the White House for political gain and insisting that it takes acts of the worst villainy to oust a president because after all the people elected him.
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New Energy secretary cancels Paris trip amid mass strikes against Macron proposal MORE, a recent energy secretary, confidently stated that Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 21625 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 2900 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 220006 MORE's presidency was not merely the will of the people; God ordained it.
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" In an email to STX employees, CEO Robert Simonds wrote: "As many of you know, when Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed the HB 481 "fetal heartbeat" bill into law on May 7th, STX was in pre-production on the film Greenland in Atlanta, GA. While the bill has not yet come into effect, we do not believe it represents the will of the people in Georgia.
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"When I hear him saying he's not sure he's going to respect the results of the election, it makes me think of the period of dictatorship in the Dominican Republic when politicians didn't respect the will of the people," said Nieves Padilla, 60, an organizer with Make the Road Action, a New York-based immigrant advocacy group, who came to the United States in 1975.
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Herman Cain on Monday said that the will of the people is not with major Republicans, like Mitt Romney, who are rejecting Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, the party's presumptive nominee for president.
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Perhaps. But instead of this wringing of hands and attempts to undermine the will of the people that Mr. Blow's column exemplifies, pull yourself together and do something constructive: Look in the mirror, get out of that liberal echo chamber that you've been living in, listen to what people who don't think exactly like you are saying, and use it to start working toward the next election.
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And the right-wing political parties that had always adamantly defended Pinochet's fraudulent Constitution of 1980, under which they had been able to veto any major changes, joined the parties of the center-left to propose an itinerary for a constitutional convention that will, by the end of April, begin creating a new and participatory Magna Carta born of the free will of the people.
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If you are a Trump supporter, this news from McCabe is confirmation of a "deep state" network in place at the Justice Department -- a group of senior officials embedded in the top ranks of the federal bureaucracy that views itself as all-powerful, able to deploy the resources of the government to accomplish its goals even if those goals subvert the will of the people.
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However politically virtuous the MSM see themselves, and however important they truly are, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE has something that none of them possesses, and that is the will of the people who voted him their president.
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"With the Save the Internet Act, Democrats are honoring the will of the people and restoring the protections that do this: Stop unjust discriminatory practices by ISPs that try to throttle the public browsing speed, block your internet access and increase your costs, giving to entrepreneurs and small businesses a level playing field and ensuring American innovation can continue to be the envy of the world," Pelosi said. Sen.
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The Teamsters and Southern Wine & Spirits rank among the largest political contributors to the legislature, so unless we organize some pretty intense opposition—something I'm working on now—it's very possible that the legislature could over-rule the will of the people and allow these guys to come in and take a huge chunk of the market for adult sales, just as they have in the medical market.
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Add this latest move to a growing list of similar efforts — eliminating the mandate tax penalty to begin with, allowing more short-term plans on the market — and it becomes clear where the administration's priorities lie: not in helping more Americans get good health care, not even in supporting the will of the people, but in dismantling what some political opponents built, just for the sake of doing so.
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President Donald Trump has referred to the media as "enemies of the people"; Poland's ruling PIS party justifies its attacks on the legal system and the opposition by reference to its connection to the narod; Boris Johnson, Britain's prime minister, has set himself up as defending the will of "the people" against those in Parliament and the courts who are stopping Britain from leaving the European Union without a deal.
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And even if delegates were obligated to obey the "will of the people" as expressed through primaries and caucuses, Trump's claim on the nomination would still be dubious at this point – at present he has only won roughly 18803 percent of all primary and caucus votes cast, and would need to net more than 3.5 million voters in the June 6 primaries to win even a bare majority of all votes cast.
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Signed by the seventeen-year-old King who ascended the throne only last week, it read: ''I, Peter II, by the grace of God and the will of the people King of Yugoslavia, at the advice of the Ministers of War and of the Navy and in accordance with a decision by the Council of Ministers, order that the entire military might of the kingdom be put in a state of readiness, beginning April 1.
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"Our economy is about as strong as it could be to confront the challenge our country now faces," George Osborne told a news conference on Monday, making his first public comments since the referendum result which saw 52 percent of voters elect to leave the EU. Osborne said the result was not the "not the outcome that I wanted or that I threw everything into campaigning for " but that the will of the people had to be respected.
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The Republican Platform, adopted at this summer's National Convention clearly states that the GOP will respect the will of the people of Puerto Rico, free and democratically expressed in the 2012 status referendum in which 85033 percent of the voters rejected the current colonial relationship with the U.S. In that same election, 61 percent of people that participated chose statehood as a final solution to an almost never ending story of our political relation with the nation.
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International election monitors numbering nearly double the amount sent for the last election have been dispatched across the country, and they include high-profile monitors like former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and representatives from the EU. Former President Obama emerged from his relative post-Trump seclusion to call for a peaceful turnout: "I urge Kenyan leaders to reject violence and incitement; respect the will of the people," Obama said in a statement Tuesday morning.
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"I will tell you this, if the Republican Party comes into that convention and jimmies with the rules and takes away the will of the people, the will of the Republicans and the Democrats and independents who voted for Mr. Trump, I will take off my credentials, I will leave the floor of that convention, and I will leave the Republican Party forever," Sam Clovis, a national co-chair for Trump's campaign, said in an interview with Alisyn Camerota on CNN's "New Day" on Friday.
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"This process won't be completed quickly, but as we remove harmful regulations and change the structure of Washington, draining the bureaucratic swamp that undermines the will of the people, we can rebuild trust between the people and their government again," he continued, borrowing from the "drain the swamp" message that President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE has used to frame his actions against lobbyists.
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