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    legislature


    1. She demanded a recount after that failed she went to the state legislature and tried to get them to change the outcome


    2. But the increase of the value of silver had, it seems, so far compensated the diminution of the quantity of it contained in the same nominal sum, that the legislature did not think it worth while to attend to this circumstance


    3. Thus, in 1436, it was enacted, that wheat might be exported without a licence when the price was so low as six shillings and eightpence: and in 1463, it was enacted, that no wheat should be imported if the price was not above six shillings and eightpence the quarter: The legislature had imagined, that when the price was so low, there could be no inconveniency in exportation, but that when it rose higher, it became prudent to allow of importation


    4. Secondly, they have been misled by the slovenly manner in which some ancient statutes of assize had been sometimes transcribed by lazy copiers, and sometimes, perhaps, actually composed by the legislature


    5. " In the composition of this statute, the legislature itself seems to have been as negligent as the copiers were in the transcription of the other


    6. The country gentlemen, who then composed a still greater proportion of the legislature than they do at present, had felt that the money price of corn was falling


    7. From the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, too, the English legislature has been peculiarly attentive to the interest of commerce and manufactures, and in reality there is no country in Europe, Holland itself not excepted, of which the law is, upon the whole, more favourable to this sort of industry


    8. These encouragements, although at bottom, perhaps, as I shall endeavour to show hereafter, altogether illusory, sufficiently demonstrate at least the good intention of the legislature to favour agriculture


    9. This monopoly has so much increased the number of some particular tribes of them, that, like an overgrown standing army, they have become formidable to the government, and, upon many occasions, intimidate the legislature


    10. The legislature, were it possible that its deliberations could be always directed, not by the clamorous importunity of partial interests, but by an extensive view of the general good, ought, upon this very account, perhaps, to be particularly careful, neither to establish any new monopolies of this kind, nor to extend further those which are already established

    11. By the fourth of the rules annexed to the old subsidy, the drawback allowed upon the exportation of all wines amounted to a great deal more than half the duties which were at that time paid upon their importation ; and it seems at that time to have been the object of the legislature to give somewhat more than ordinary encouragement to the carrying trade in wine


    12. Notwithstanding these favourable allegations, however, the following considerations dispose me to believe, that in granting at least one of these bounties, the legislature has been very grossly imposed upon:


    13. But the law ought always to trust people with the care of their own interest, as in their local situations they must generally he able to judge better of it than the legislature can do


    14. The tendency of some of these regulations to raise the value of timber in America, and thereby to facilitate the clearing of the land, was neither, perhaps, intended nor understood by the legislature


    15. The more advanced or more refined manufactures, even of the colony produce, the merchants and manufacturers of Great Britain chuse to reserve to themselves, and have prevailed upon the legislature to prevent their establishment in the colonies, sometimes by high duties, and sometimes by absolute prohibitions


    16. If but one of those overgrown manufactures, which, by means either of bounties or of the monopoly of the home and colony markets, have been artificially raised up to any unnatural height, finds some small stop or interruption in its employment, it frequently occasions a mutiny and disorder alarming to government, and embarrassing even to the deliberations of the legislature


    17. The private interest of our merchants and manufacturers may, perhaps, have extorted from the legislature these exemptions, as well as the greater part of our other commercial regulations


    18. By extorting from the legislature bounties upon the exportation of their own linen, high duties upon the importation of all foreign linen, and a total prohibition of the home consumption of some sorts of French linen, they endeavour to sell their own goods as dear as possible


    19. Our woollen manufacturers have been more successful than any other class of workmen, in persuading the legislature that the prosperity of the nation depended upon the success and extension of their particular business


    20. But in this respect, as well as in many others, nations have not always acted consistently; and in the greater part of the commercial states of Europe, particular companies of merchants have had the address to persuade the legislature to entrust to them the performance of this part of the duty of the sovereign, together with all the powers which are necessarily connected with it

    21. But the legislature, instead of a bounty, has imposed a tax of three shillings and threepence a-ton upon coals carried coastways; which, upon most sorts of coal, is more than sixty per cent


    22. In 1907 the Philippines elected one house of their legislature


    23. Born extremely sheltered and privileged, Roosevelt's family connections helped get him elected to the New York legislature and several other posts that led to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he schemed to get the US involved in the Spanish-American War while the actual Secretary of the Navy was on vacation


    24. ) A Democratic state legislature majority even succeeded in 1860 in expanding Indian slavery from “orphans” and “vagrants” to virtually any Indian by forcing ten year apprenticeships on them, de facto slavery


    25. In 2004 the California Legislature passed a bill to help the state


    26. of the Legislature of the State in the which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines,


    27. Even the courts, with the powers given them by the legislature could not keep Adam and Susan from negatively influencing the lives of their children


    28. They cannot prevail in the halls of the legislature or at the ballot box on Gay Marriage, so they attack the California people‘s choice (Prop


    29. There is nothing new about the separation of the secular legislature from the spiritual


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    31. of Alabama where he had been an All American baseball player, got the MS Legislature to pass a revenue bond scheme whereby the State financed the construction of the brand new, state-of-the-art, West Bank “Shipyard of the Future


    32. DSA strives to be a crucial socialist leaven within a mass movement and will endeavor to elect progressives to Congress and to the state legislature


    33. Its legislature adopted a statute written by Thomas Jefferston stating that “no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship


    34. They lobbied the State legislature to order the technicians to work for what they wanted to pay


    35. The Legislature ignored their pleas


    36. Congress envisioned by our founding fathers of a part-time citizen legislature where serving in Washington was viewed as a short-term duty of public service, not a full-time career


    37. law was passed by a Democratic legislature and since it must be in a History book, this book will be printed and distributed throughout the school system in the United States


    38. at the Courts and within the State legislature


    39. In the years 2000 to 2003 alone, the manufacturing job loss was over 230,000, and many businesses have fled the State because of rising disability insurance and workers compensation payments imposed by the State legislature


    40. 5 In fact, this was so flagrant that the people finally reacted and held a recall election of the governor and elected a new one, but the ‘liberal’ legislature remains

    41. The New York legislature gave him * This concept is characteristic of free entrepreneurial activity


    42. Even if the Provincial Legislature passed any reform, the final authority was with the British Governor of the province and Governor General of India


    43. Gokhale and Patel tried to introduce bills in legislature to initiate universal primary education


    44. Their report recommended that about 10% of the population can vote for Provincial and Federal Legislature


    45. Each state legislature decides the amount that divides a grand larceny from a petty larceny


    46. Outside the Legislature Building in ten?" They were both wrapped in warm, heavy coats


    47. Perhaps as a result of the influx of new members with their own agendas, the party’s primary effect had been to create chaos in the Federation Legislature


    48. We were going to wait for the next presidential election in 1948 and try to win seats in the legislature, but now I think we have to move more quickly


    49. "What is it like being a member of the legislature, Melissa?" Bob asked


    50. When the new legislature sat in their first meetings, a plan was struck to have appropriate compensation directed toward the different Indian tribes












































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    Synonyms for "legislature"

    general assembly law-makers legislative assembly legislative body legislature congress parliament council assembly

    "legislature" definitions

    persons who make or amend or repeal laws