The numbers who usually attended this council were too small to admit of the supposition that they had any legislative authority whatever, to impose laws upon the people against their will.
If this body had had any real legislative authority, they would have constituted an aristocracy, having, in conjunction with the king, absolute power over the people.
It is founded on a supposed assent to the exercise of legislative authority, without considering whether that exercise be legal or illegal.
I do not speak now of the President's claims of power as opposed to legislative authority, but of his opinions as to his own authority, duty, and responsibility, as connected with all other officers under the government.
Court lawyers were found to justify the king in dispensing with the laws; that is, in assuming and exercising a legislative authority.
The custody of the public property, under such regulations as may be prescribed by legislative authority, has always been considered an appropriate function of the executive department in this and all other governments.
The thirteen sovereignties possessing all the power, gave to Congress a certain portion of Legislative authority; but they certainly could give to the Executive, or any other body, the power to make Treaties.
Under such a regulation, short-hand writers might be admitted, without giving to their publications any degree of legislative authority.
The power which the legislatures thus acquired to grant charters which could not be amended or repealed made it necessary for the people to devise some new method of protecting themselves against this abuse of legislative authority.
These provisions merely secured, or rather sought to secure, to cities some benefits of a negative character--immunity from certain recognized abuses of legislative authority.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legislative authority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
