It might be well to legislate that people should be born equal (including equal privileges of the sexes), but the practical difficulty is to keep them equal.
Fifty-one ignorant men have a natural right to legislate for the one hundred, as against forty-nine intelligent men.
All men being equal, one man is as fit to legislate and execute as another.
Those who talk and write and legislate as if all this could be prevented by making solemn vows that it shall not happen, are either insincere, insane, or hopelessly stupid.
If we can legislate punt guns and dynamite out of use, the machine guns and silencers can be treated similarly.
Corinth did not undertake to legislate for Syracuse; but the Syracusan did not therefore cease to regard Corinthians as his fellow-countrymen.
The new self-governing body soon began to legislate in matters of local government, imposing fines for the breach of its by-laws.
To the situation defined by concordat, however, succeeds another situation, more or less uncertain and more or less strained, in which the two powers legislate separately on mixed matters, sometimes not without provoking conflicts.
We were called upon to legislate upon the subject.
We had, however, tolegislate upon the basis of the continued prosecution of the war, and it therefore became necessary to increase the revenues in every possible way, and to provide for new loans.
A Parliament they had; but that Parliament could legislate only by grace of the English council and of a council named by the lord lieutenant in Ireland.
British Parliament tolegislate for Ireland, was renounced.
In this, just as in the divorce problem, we have to determine whether it is better to insist on an ideal, which we know the majority will not keep, or to legislate down to the majority.
There is no doubt in my own mind that to legislate on an ideal is not only impracticable but dangerous.
By being responsible he learned the folly and danger of undue restrictive legislation, and the utter futility of the attempt to legislate taste, moral sense and lofty ideals (i.
The fact that each maritime State has a right to legislate for its own vessels gives it a share in keeping up a certain order on the Open Sea.
Such cases as are the consequence of the Municipal Laws of a Federal State or of a State which, as Great Britain, allows outlying parts to legislate on their own account concerning naturalisation, fall outside the scope of the Law of Nations.
Honorable Judges, such men are in a position to legislate with thoroughness.
The Cedar Rapids commission met to legislateon replacing an old bridge.
A state has the right to legislate for the punishment of all acts inimical to the peace, good order, and morals of society.
Gentlemen, this is the young Marquis of Edbury, a member of the House of Lords by right of his birth, born to legislate for you and me.
I promised him I would unreservedly, with a laugh, but with a sincere intention to legislate in a direct manner on his behalf.
The question, therefore, whether Congress, as it is at present constituted, is a body constitutionally competent to legislate for the whole country, is the most important of all practical questions.
On this theory we have a government incompetent to legislate for insurgent States, because lacking their representatives, waging against them a cruel and unjust war.
There was reason to fear that the Southern States would neglect to legislate on this important matter, and that the act would be indifferently enforced.
The people, the masses, did not, every single man of them, claim the right to govern and to legislate directly.
It would no longer legislateand govern; there would be, to speak exactly, an aristocracy, not very permanently established perhaps, but still an aristocracy which would eliminate the influence of the people from public affairs.
It is not possible to legislate on hard and fast lines of principle alone.
He sought to legislate for an evolving society, conditioned by all sorts of anomalous survivals; and he must prescribe for each juncture or trouble in view of all the facts of the case.
Such has been the effect of attempting to legislate for the affections; for in most cases a woman falls a sacrifice to her better feelings, not to her appetite.
We are not to legislate for the present population, but for the future.
We have, therefore, to legislatebetween the two parties, and let us, previous to entering upon the question, examine into their respective merits.
Acting upon this sound principle, we are to legislate upon the supposition that the whole country of Upper and Lower Canada is well peopled.
There is nothing so difficult as to legislate for a colony from home.
His lordship has very truly observed, that in legislating, we are to legislate for futurity; if not, we must be prepared for change.
And here I cannot help observing, that the heads of the Church of England appear not to have duly weighed this matter, when an attempt was lately made to legislate upon it.
While retaining the dignity of Establishment and the opulence of Endowment, they propose that the Church should have "power to legislate on all matters affecting the Church, subject to Parliamentary veto.
And yet men legislate concerning the missionary operations of women, and give them no voice directly in this body.
The town meeting may legislate on such matters as the erection of a new schoolhouse or the building of a town highway, but it cannot locate the post-office or change the location of a State or county road.
When Great Britain early in the nineteenth century overstepped the bounds of the let-alone policy and began to legislate for the protection of the employee, it was but a resumption of a paternal policy that had been general in Europe before.
Government was slow to legislate in favor of the helpless employee, and the abuses of the time were many.
For under these conditions you will bring about the greatest harmony, and the state will be increased, and you will legislate to the greatest discomfiture of your enemies.
But you must remember, gentlemen of the jury, what happened in the time of the Thirty, that the mistakes of your enemies may make you legislate better for yourselves.
This then is my advice to you; and it is necessary for you to know that if you follow my advice you will legislate wisely, and if not, the rest of the citizens will become baser.
For I mean that it is not right for any to legislate for us, except those who besides being citizens are really interested in being such.
Indeed, one of the strongest arguments in favor of Woman Suffrage is, that the marriage relation will be safer with women to vote and legislate upon it than where the voting and legislation are left wholly to men.
It is a specious form of mistake to suppose that "men can legislate just what they wish to.
They can legislate only what the majority decrees, and they can legislate effectively only what they have power to enforce.
It is, after all, common sense that rules, and men can legislate what they please.
