Unlike in that case, the Supreme Court would be unable to review the matter because it would be an exercise in plenary lawmaking authority.

In the law of almost every country, the state is the ultimate owner of all land under its jurisdiction, because it is the sovereign, or supreme lawmaking authority.

Since the New Deal, every Congress has delegated more of its constitutional lawmaking authority to unelected bureaucrats in administrative agencies through vaguely written laws.

Between 1819, when modern Singapore was founded, and 1867, the lawmaking authorities were the British government in India and the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

A sovereign is the supreme lawmaking authority within its jurisdiction.

While the national Parliament alone has lawmaking authority, many powers including taxation, rulemaking, and law enforcement, have been devolved to elected local governments since the 1990s.

In the legal affairs office, the ruling was interpreted as a naked challenge to the lawmaking authority of the People's Congress.

Although Parliament retains supreme lawmaking authority for the overseas territories and Crown Dependencies, this is seldom used.

The job of legislating should accordingly shift more explicitly from the executive to the lawmaking authority.

Chief Justice Hughes delivered the opinion of the unanimous court, holding that Congress had delegated too much lawmaking authority to the President without any clear guidelines or standards.