What Legislating can you get out of a man in that fatal situation?
It was well known that the indolence of the other members, or their indifference, inseparable from the situation in which they were placed, would prevent Congress from legislating with a full understanding of the objects before them.
He went into a view of the federal compact, to argue the impropriety of legislating on the subject.
Should justice be done to the exercise of this power, it was likely that as much time would be spent in legislating for this District as for the whole United States.
Mr. WALN contended, that at least the House had the power of legislating on the state of free blacks as well as other people, and on the slave trade, much of which was still carrying on from Rhode Island, Boston and Pennsylvania.
But it did not follow that only Republicans were loyal men, and that the loyal Democrats of the North would follow {55} the recently disloyal Democrats of the South in legislatingupon the issues of the war.
But it ought not to escape attention, that Buonaparte, inlegislating for the Jews, did not go the full length of this bill; and before he did anything for them, he ordered a strict inquiry into their case to be made.
Blunders in legislating about railroads, and absurd expenditure in making them, are a far greater public detriment than they may seem at first sight.
In social government, no less than in legislating for a state, there should be constant reference to great principles, if only from the exceeding difficulty of foreseeing, or appreciating, the results in detail of any measure.
It is, as old Sir Thomas More said very truly, the matter of the rich legislating for the poor, which is at fault.
Instead of legislating as to the nature and attributes of God, the dogmas of theology, and the destiny of our souls, we wisely wait for science to tell us what to reject and what to accept.
It is an axiom that we should in legislating guide ourselves directly by considerations of utility and expediency.
What would result from the ordinary voter legislating on matters which require expert knowledge will be plain to every one who will consider the evolution of law.
One wonders that the Army did not wheel in mass round Westminster, haul the legislating idiots from their seats, and then undertake in their own name both the war and the general business of the nation.
But, besides this, the Assembly was not a body legislatingin its own right.
After having taken away from woman the means of protecting her person and property, by the peaceable, but powerful ballot, how have we discharged the self-imposed duty of legislating for her?
LUCY STONE said: I have before me, in a newspaper, a case which shows strongly the necessity for woman's legislating for herself.
Under the plea of legislating for the police of public worship, he reaffirmed some of the principles which he had been unable to incorporate in the Concordat itself.
But he is for legislating it out of all force while the law itself stands.
And these declarations I have constantly made in reference to the abstract moral question, to contemplate and consider when we are legislating about any new country which is not already cursed with the actual presence of the evil,--slavery.
Does the Judge mean to say that the Territorial Legislature in legislating may, by withholding necessary laws, or by passing unfriendly laws, nullify that constitutional right?
Now morality is the condition under which alone a rational being can be an end in himself, since by this alone is it possible that he should be a legislating member in the kingdom of ends.
Therefore every rational being must so act as if he were by his maxims in every case a legislating member in the universal kingdom of ends.
This is done in the present (third) formula of the principle, namely, in the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislating will.
It will be only when the Hague Peace Conferences have become permanently established that an organ of the League of Nations for legislating internationally will be at hand.
Nothing, however, ought to prevent those States which are ready to agree to certain new rules of International Law, from legislating for their own number on a certain matter.
It shows that the Judge has no very vivid impression that the negro is human, and consequently has no idea that there can be any moral question in legislating about him.
There were some others who desired, while they were legislating on this subject, that they should also give bounty lands to the volunteers of the War of 1812.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legislating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
