Most of our advocates of direct legislation by the people assume that a great mass of law-making would result in practice; probably the contrary is true; the referendum would destroy more than the initiative would create.
Direct legislation" has been very popular as a political slogan during the past few years, but it has not been adopted as yet in any of the thirteen original States.
Direct legislation," he continues, "has the tendency to divert attention from general principles and to concentrate it on concrete questions.
Therefore, while the Socialist Party stands for direct legislation as a democratic measure, we are well aware that the working class will be helped very little by getting it.
Direct legislation will do much to destroy all artificial situations and place society on the solid basis of the knowledge or ignorance, the division or organization, the weakness or strength of character of the masses.
The Initiative and the Referendum are known collectively as Direct Legislation, that is, legislation directly by the people, as opposed to legislation enacted entirely through the legislature.
Because it constitutes a check upon constitutional conventions and state legislatures, Direct Legislation is said to make government more truly responsive to public opinion.
A serious defect of Direct Legislation is that the drafting of many laws requires detailed and technical information which the average voter is in no position to secure.
The principle of direct legislation, in order to become really constructive, must bring with it a more effective auxiliary machinery than any which existing legislatures can supply.
The function of the representative body, needed under a system of direct legislation, is substantially that of a legislative and administrative council or commission.
The father of direct legislation, Rittinghausen, was a delegate to the congress from Germany.
It is only by taking their interests into their own hands, by direct legislation, that the people can .
I insist, then, that you put on the program of this congress the question of direct legislation by the people.
The system of direct legislation by the people should be more generally adopted in the United States.
Evidence as to the practicability and the effects of direct legislation is afforded by Switzerland, especially in its history during the past twenty-five years.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "direct legislation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
