A richer public life will come from the breakdown of the safeguards of mediocrity and from the stressing of the legislative at the expense of the executive branch of the government.
Most of them, never having been members of the upper house, have not suffered from the depreciation in the public eye which attends service in the legislative branch.
The handling of these funds the legislative branch kept out of executive control.
If the legislative did not respond to pressure he might "go to the people," as it was called, through the newspapers and upon the stump.
The seniority rule, to which reference has been made before, must be abolished before talent will have its opportunity in the legislative branch.
Those who ascribe all the troubles in Congress to lack of leadership, and go no further, blame the poverty of our legislative life upon the popular election of Senators and upon the choice of candidates at direct primaries.
If ever there was occasion for the delays and precautions provided by legislative proceedings, with three different readings in each separate House, it must be when such a change is in question.
It never became in any respect a legislative act; therefore nobody entered legislatively into the agreement attributed to me.
Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States (2d edit.
According to the Constitution, “All Legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
The legislative power is vested in the governor and in thirteen citizens, called a legislative council, appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and not to be removed except by such advice and consent.
I thought it an unhappy deference to an original legislative precedent at an earlier period of our history.
But we are not asked now to decide the question, whether the Legislature, by legislative act, may substitute the rule of a minority for the majority.
But, assuming that it may be exercised in joint meeting, it is clear that this must be in pursuance of some legislative act, prescribing in advance the manner.
And yet the President has assumed legislative power, even to the extent of making laws and constitutions for States.
Accustomed as we have become to the rules which govern legislative proceedings, we are hardly aware of their importance in the development of liberal institutions.
Reason, for him, is essentially an organizing not a legislative power in man's life.
But superiority is not rationally endowed with legislative power over others.
If there is any consistency in human nature at all, it is hardly possible that there were not those who recalled his incendiary speeches, his unsparing legislative action of the Budget days.
I went to 11 Downing Street one day after the Budget fight was over, and when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lloyd George was preparing further legislative changes.
But the legislative power of the parliament was a mere fallacy, while the sovereign was universally acknowledged to possess a dispensing power, by which all the laws could be invalidated, and rendered of no effect.
Certain states, such as Ohio, Michigan, and Vermont, have made steps toward an intelligent legislative attack on different aspects of the problem.
To prepare ourselves for an active and intelligent share in the movement, we should review briefly the essential elements of a public campaign against syphilis as they have been developed by recent investigations and legislative experiments.
For this reason they may be fairly placed in the category of premature legislative experiments, and should be postponed until a more favorable time.
Every important legislative scheme that has come into existence in recent years has recognized this fact.
The numerous free cities were governed according to their own laws, and had the legislative power and magistracy of autonomic states.
She had ousted special interests forever from her legislative halls.
There are third the provincial governments with executive, legislative and judicial powers.
There is second the federal government with executive, legislative and judicial powers; or a cabinet, a parliament, a supreme court.
The Governor and legislativecouncil are to be appointed by the Crown, and full freedom of worship is guaranteed.
Then all kinds of printing offices were established under national control: a national legislative printing office, a national printing office of laws, a national executive printing office, etc.
August, 1792, the day after the capture of the Tuileries, was removed by order of the Legislative Assembly, melted down, and converted into pieces of two sous.
Under the Consulate and the Empire the municipal power, like the legislative power, was abolished; and the Hôtel de Ville was now only known as the scene from time to time of public entertainments.
According to one of the last legislativeenactments of the Second Empire, persons brought before a police-court remained provisionally at liberty except under grave circumstances.
If the 3d section were before us now for consideration for the first time, under the facts stated, I could not hesitate to say there was adequate legislative power given in it.
There is a dead majority against us in Congress, and they will not heed the appeal to the legislative department for protection.
He said: "The legislative authority of a territory is invested with no vote for or against laws.
It was an ordinary legislative power, nothing else in the world; known and recognized as such and admitted as such by every State in the Union.
A Legislative Assembly was created, judges were appointed, and all the operations of a government went on as smoothly as they do in any of the territories of the United States.
Mr. Stephens is one of the most effective public speakers in the country, whether it be in the court-room, the legislative hall, or before the people.
In those sessions he took his full share of labor in the committee rooms, on the floor of the Senate, and on matters of legislative action.
It is the function of the legislativeorgan to make laws.
The judicial and the legislative functions run together also in judicial ascertainment of the common law by analogical application of decided cases.
They conceive of the legal precept, whether legislativeor traditional, as a guide to the judge, leading him toward the just result.
This negative side played an important part in the English legislative reform movement in the last century.
Moreover in a time of copious legislation the enacted rule is easily taken as the type of legal precept and an attempt to frame a theory of legislative lawmaking is taken to give an account of all law.
In other words, the judicial function and the legislative function run into one another.
Finally it came to be thought that no liability without fault was not merely common law but was natural law and that any legislative imposition of such liability was arbitrary and unreasonable in itself and hence unconstitutional.
In form it rested on the legislative power of the Roman people, supplemented by a mere interpretation of the legislative command with only the authority of customary acceptance.
Hence it has been easy for us to assume that courts did no more than genuinely interpret legislative texts and deduce the logical content of authoritatively established traditional principles.
Moreover the legislative reform movement which followed only carried into detail the ideas which had come into the law in the two preceding centuries.
His power was almost absolute, the legislative power residing wholly with him, though justice was administered through an administrative system which differentiated the government from the despotisms of the East.
The constable, Alvaro de Luna, sought to appropriate taxing and legislative powers to the crown.
Of the substantial part of its legislative task, the same may be said.
On the morrow of our new National Convention first sits; old legislative ending.
Even his legislative veto can be overruled when two-thirds of both houses are unanimous.
The efficient secret of the English constitution is the nearly complete fusion of the executive andlegislative powers.
This is a committee of the legislative body, in choosing which indirectly but not directly the legislature is nearly omnipotent.
The system stands in precise contrast to the presidential system, in which the legislative and executive powers are entirely independent.
There is to be a new Legislative Assembly, biennial; no members of the Constituent Assembly to sit therein, or for four years to be a minister, or hold a court appointment.
This constitution established a central government consisting of a legislative assembly and an executive body of five members, with Prince Alexander Mavrocordato as President of Greece.
The members of congress are excluded from executive office, and the separation makes neither the executive half nor the legislative half of political life worth having.
It "passed the wit of man," said Mr. Gladstone, to separate in practice the Legislative and Executive functions in the British Constitution.
Conversely, only through the express legislative authority of Westminster will an Irish, like a Colonial Act,[90] be held to operate outside the borders of Ireland.
Short of coercive war, there seemed to be only two altogether logical alternatives--complete separation and legislative Union.
Ethics and honour apart, where was the common sense of the legislative Union?
When he came home to London he made a volte face, rejecting the Federal idea and accepting its antitype, that Legislative and Administrative Union of the two Provinces which had been rejected by Pitt in 1791.
The Legislative Union is not a landmark or a turning-point in Irish history.
Mr. Simonds was in attendance in October, 1774, and took the customary oath, being the first inhabitant of the county to take his seat in the legislative halls of Nova Scotia.
A copy is in the Legislative Library at Fredericton.
Young was a middle-of-the-road Whig, whose candidacy grew out of his recent legislative record.
The day before the legislative caucus," wrote an eye-witness, "the Whig members of the Legislature gathered around the editor of the Evening Journal for counsel and advice.
He was five years older than Fillmore, and his legislative experience had been four or five years longer.
The conception of vesting supreme appellate jurisdiction in the upper legislative house was derived from the former practice of appeals to the Council of the Province,[9] which possessed judicial as well as legislative power.
Hoffman had not sought the office, but the appointment would have softened him into a friend, and with Michael Hoffman as an ally, Crain and his legislative followers could have been controlled.
It was also provided that amendments to the Constitution might be submitted to the people at any time upon the approval of a bare legislative majority.
He had been conspicuously prominent almost from the day he entered the Senate; and, after the Republicans recovered control of the Assembly, he was the acknowledged legislative leader of his party.
Hostile Republicans were, however, now ready to believe Clinton guilty of any act of turpitude or ingratitude; and so, on February 4, when a legislative caucus renominated Daniel D.
Townsend had come into the Senate in 1810 as a Clinton Republican, but his brief legislativecareer had not been as serene as a summer's day.
One morning, as I was entering the grand court of the hall of the Legislative Assembly, I was stopped by a sentry.
The sessions of thelegislative assembly had closed the day before my arrival, a circumstance I much regretted, as through his means I should have been enabled to have attended their sittings.
From the legislative assembly I went to pay my respects to the gallant captain Bergeret, to whom I had letters of introduction.
The same notions existed in Jersey, and it was equally believed that coin or money could be retained, and should be retained, by legislative enactments.
No legislative action, however, was taken at that time.
He was succeeded in the next year by Lord Windsor, under whom a legislative council was established.
Now the executive may design, construct or operate a railroad; the legislative never can.
Bills having special reference to railroads were being introduced daily in some of the legislative bodies above mentioned.
The contention for lower rates had waxed so warm that a reduction in the watermelon rate became the issue upon which a legislative campaign was fought.
Proceedings legislative in nature are not proceedings in a court within the meaning of the Revised Statutes, section 720, no matter what may be the general or dominant character of the body in which they may take place.
As I have said, two years ago during the legislative period, 800 bills affecting railroads were introduced in states reached by the Burlington System, including those proposed at Washington.
These discriminations between shippers would be the direct result of the power placed by Congress in the hands of shippers and would have received the sanction of legislative approval, and, therefore, be lawful.
Taxation had been increased; deficits had taken the place of surpluses; no legislative achievements could be discovered.
All these legislative projects had received the consent of the Cabinet.
The session at present is too long and too short--too long for a consecutive session; too short for the decent and efficient transaction of executive, financial and legislative business.
A Parliament, in which any and every legislative project or deliberative proceeding or executive act, may be vetoed for three years, is to abound in rapid legislation, and to surpass our ancient historic Parliament in efficiency of procedure.
The next day Sir Michael Hicks-Beach explained the few uncontentious legislative projects which the Government would try to carry through and asked for the time of the House to enable them to wind up the business of the Session.
But to prolong debate even by persistent iteration on legislative measures is not necessarily an outrage, an offence, or even an indiscretion.
But I have seen, with feelings of deep regret and just indignation, the continuance of attempts to excite the people of that country to demand a repeal of the Legislative Union.
There are abundant instances in which obstruction of this kind has led to the removal of perilous or objectionable matter from legislative measures, and thus to the avoidance of great public evils.
General Rutherford long distinguished for his services in the Legislature of North Carolina, is appointed President of the Legislative Council.
This is the first record of a legislative character which led to the Revolution.
Freedom of conscience, exemption from taxation, except by their own consent; gratuities in land to every emigrant, and other wholesome regulations claimed the prompt legislative action of the infant colony.
