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She demanded a recount after that failed she went to the state legislature and tried to get them to change the outcome
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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
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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
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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
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" 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In 1907 the Philippines elected one house of their legislature
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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
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) 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
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In 2004 the California Legislature passed a bill to help the state
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of the Legislature of the State in the which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines,
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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
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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
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There is nothing new about the separation of the secular legislature from the spiritual
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legislature on Dec
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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
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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
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Its legislature adopted a statute written by Thomas Jefferston stating that “no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship
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They lobbied the State legislature to order the technicians to work for what they wanted to pay
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The Legislature ignored their pleas
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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
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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
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at the Courts and within the State legislature
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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
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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
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The New York legislature gave him * This concept is characteristic of free entrepreneurial activity
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Even if the Provincial Legislature passed any reform, the final authority was with the British Governor of the province and Governor General of India
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Gokhale and Patel tried to introduce bills in legislature to initiate universal primary education
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Their report recommended that about 10% of the population can vote for Provincial and Federal Legislature
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Each state legislature decides the amount that divides a grand larceny from a petty larceny
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Outside the Legislature Building in ten?" They were both wrapped in warm, heavy coats
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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
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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
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"What is it like being a member of the legislature, Melissa?" Bob asked
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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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John Elliot was elected by the various tribes to represent their interests in the legislature
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Students opened stores and shops, they developed land for building and as the need arose they fine-tuned the entire society finally ending up with a legislature, police force, sanitation department and almost every necessary part of a functioning society
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It was controversial and people in the legislature of Massachusetts saw it as harmful to the economy of the state
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You may have heard of Huey Long and Carlos Marcello, one politician and another individual who had a great deal of control without being in the state legislature
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Chinese legislature has made clear legal definition on cult, which serves as strict and solid legal foundation for the government to handle all the issues concerning Falun Gong
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There should be some automatic apportioning of some of the federal budget for state’s use that the congressman and his home state legislature have to help state projects
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In our legislature, I will push for state set aside money and no pork and no amendments to fetter important legislation, which I will require be written in simple English and be no more than 10 pages for my review and approval
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And legislature should be free of lobbies and be listening to the people they serve and their own consciences
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legislature to replace Barron in the next election
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The Legislature knows what it’s doing
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Do I need to remind you as well of how many French Communist Party members there are inside your legislature and government? President Dewey is now starting his second four-year mandate, while the government of the French Fourth Republic falls on average every ten months and has to be replaced constantly
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He had known and worked with Stevenson since he was in the State Legislature in Illinois
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In his years in the state legislature, then the senate, he had found that watching this could sometimes point out people who really were not on the team or had other agendas
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For a start, a State constitution will need to be drafted, and proposals drawn up about the structure of the State legislature
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Then it will need to consider how the two present halves of the proposed new State are to be represented in that legislature, and in your own Congress
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a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, said in his article,
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3 of the Code of Ethics state that Members of the Executive (which includes the President and any other member of the cabinet) may not wilfully mislead the legislature to which they are accountable; act in a way that is inconsistent with their position; use their position or any information entrusted to them, to enrich themselves or improperly benefit any other person; expose themselves to any situation involving the risk of a conflict between their official responsibilities and their private interests; or receive remuneration for any work or service other than for the performance of their functions as members of the Executive
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Though the minister, who was present in the House, denied any irregularity, demanding an enquiry, the opposition staged a walk out and sat in dharna outside the legislature
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The legislature also has the opportunity to regulate a range of charges that banks may charge according to the rating of individual consumers and businesses
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” The state legislature was holding an open hearing on its universal healthcare initiative
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But in spite of the leftforce from the President, the Legislature and
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Therefore, the President and Legislature could repeal the Patriot Act!
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It was on the third day of the fifth plenary session of the Basic Law Drafting Committee in Beijing that Lee had once more caused an uproar which resulted in headings in the media such as “Strong opposition to a more powerful legislature
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Again he too pushed for a fully elected legislature as promised in the 1984 Joint Declaration signed by China and Britain
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He strongly reiterated his call for their introduction in 1988 and added his own rider that he was concerned whether the Basic Law would in fact provide for Hong Kong’s future legislature to be constituted by the electoral process, despite the original promises contained in the Joint Declaration of three years earlier
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And the bulk of those views favoured introducing directly elected members into the legislature
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In this connection the government has taken note of the fact that all the options in the latest draft of the Basic Law concerning the election of the future legislature include an element of direct elections
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He was somewhat perplexed by the man's opinion of the state legislature
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“That and the junk food industry; I can already here top execs screaming to their hired lobbyists to scream to the legislature this is government overstepping its bounds
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The protest ended peacefully, but not before Republicans in the state legislature pushed through a bill that made gun control in California a reality
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In other words, a town legislature cannot make a law that contradicts the law of its state, and a state cannot make a law that contradicts a law made by Congress
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But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State
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No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof
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When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct
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Since Washington, DC, is not a state, there is no state legislature to provide governance
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The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature
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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote
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The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies
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The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators
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To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings;—And
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Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector
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The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence
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In the Rhode Island legislature, most bills having to do with mental illness were sponsored by Democratic Senator Rhoda Perry, who had family experience with these issues
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We were in the middle of a debate about one of the more infamous bills during the Gingrich era, the Gun Crime Enforcement and Second Amendment Restoration Act of 1996, which, based on heavy lobbying by the NRA, proposed lifting the ban on many semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices that President Clinton had signed just two years earlier (and I had passed in the Rhode Island legislature)
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The way I figure is the legislature couldn’t have done different
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“Depends on how The legislature? thought Scarlett in relief
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She had little interest in the legislature, feeling that its doings could hardly affect her
