In contrast to legislative reforms brought about by lawgivers entrusted with special authority, such as Draco, Solon and Cleisthenes, there was the regular and normal course of public legislation.
It is the duty of these lawgivers to consider the matters that concern the affairs of both countries equally.
There are three state departments, whose officers are responsible for their work to the Delegations, as the third body of lawgivers is called.
With a treasury empty and immovably averse to anything like decisive action, the astute lawgivers of Montgomery hesitated and doubted.
It would almost seem as if, in this case, the British lawgivers were willing to leave such a stigma out of an organic statute, and bestow the power of the lash in some less solemn, and perhaps less public manner.
But to do so, we voters and lawgivers ourselves must be no respecters of persons.
My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected.
Lawgivers have been anxious to restrict the blood-feud to the actual culprit.
Throughout the Middle Ages and later, Christian lawgivers thought that nothing but a painful death in the flames could atone for the sinful act.
Next to these are the Usdens, who are the landholders and lawgivers of the community, and who alone display what little of civilization exists among them.
States and lawgivers had taken advantage of them long before, having observed the constitutional bias of mankind.
Do not flatter yourselves that the ingenuity of lawgivers will ever devise an oath which the ingenuity of casuists will not evade.
Of lawgivers in whom the speculative element has prevailed to the exclusion of the practical, the world has during the last eighty years been singularly fruitful.
But from first to last the Jewish nation is spoken of as a pure and holy nation by those lawgivers and prophets who complain of its members for being stiff-necked and rebellious.
The good lawgiver discerns this likeness: but all lawgivers are not good: the bad lawgiver fancies that he discerns it, but is often mistaken.
Many names (pursues Sokrates), having been given by artistic lawgivers who believed in the Herakleitean theory, will possess intrinsic rectitude, if we assume that theory to be true.
It is indeed true that, in some instances, ancient lawgivers decreed that land should not be permanently alienated, or that individuals should not hold more than a certain amount of land.
Professor Hosmer says: "Throughout the entire history of Israel, the wisdom of the ancient lawgivers in these respects has been remarkably shown.
It was assumed that the early myth-makers and lawgivers possessed a sacred lore of immense value and undoubted truth, which they dimly shadowed forth in symbolism of fanciful tale or allegory.
It is rather strange that Jehovah should have selected such moral outlaws as lawgivers and moral examples for the whole human race.
He was again a member of the Finance Committee; but financiering by those wiselawgivers was no longer so lightsome and exuberant a task as it had been.
We are reminded that the Platonic lawgiver looks beyond the narrow and defective objects to which all other lawgivers have hitherto unwisely confined themselves.
Several of these septs gradually coalesce together into one community, choosing one or a few lawgivers to adjust and modify their respective customs into harmonious order, and submitting implicitly to the authority of such chosen few.
Both the general character, and the particular details, of his provisions respecting homicide, are in close harmony with ancient Athenian sentiment, and with the embodiments of that sentiment by the lawgivers Drako and Solon.
The real lawgivers and rulers of this society were the different individuals who constituted the assembly.
Those who would reform the world must show that they do not speak in the heat of wild impulse; their lives must be unstained by passionate error; they must be severe lawgivers to themselves.
Polytheism, on the other hand, with its idolatrous and immoral practices, appeared to the prophets and lawgivers of Israel to be, not a competing religion, but simply a falling away from God.
We need not be frightened if we discover traces of truth, traces even of Christian truth, among the sages and lawgivers of other nations.
But out of the immeasurable wealth of His teaching apostolic thinking naturally appropriated and made most of what was nearest in line with the prophets and the lawgivers of their race.
On the contrary we find his prophets and lawgivers battling with all their force against such aspects of Pantheism as they found about them.
For examples of this class we have the lawgivers of the Cretans and Lacedaemonians and whatever other such there have been.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawgivers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
