Whether there be still laws too deeply impressed with feudal ideas for modern acceptance is a question for legislators to consider.
Probably in many cases the local justices would be far more lenient to the clergy who were their neighbours, that would be the legislators at Westminster, whose passions were fanned by listening to the popular preachers.
Some of his military associates proposed to him that the unfriendly legislators should be shot, man by man, as they retreated through the gardens; but to this he would not for a moment listen.
In matters of a religious bearing, the ill-hafted notoriety-men of our Town Councils much more nearly resemble the upper indifferent classes, from which our legislators are drafted, than they do the solid bulk of the community.
You have seen young ladies at the senate door Prefer petitions, and your grace implore; However grave the legislators were, Their cause went ne'er the worse for being fair.
This same class of Negro legislatorsled by the State Treasurer, Mr. F.
In the following April the farmers flocked to a convention at the state capital and so impressed the legislators that they passed more stringent and effective laws for the regulation of railroads.
It is a well-known fact that the corporations were not averse to creating among legislators a disposition to favor their interests.
Passes were commonly given by the railroads to all public officials, from the local supervisors to the judges of the Supreme Court, and opportunities were offered to legislators to buy stock far below the market price.
The farmers had votes; the railroads had money; and the legislators were sometimes between the devil and the deep sea in the fear of offending one side or the other.
He had been in dreamland, but now the fact struck him again, with something of a shock, that this mild-mannered gentleman was one of those who had been paying certain legislators to remain in their seats.
The legislators in the front seats swung around, and people in the gallery craned forward to see a member standing at his seat in the extreme rear of the hall.
That year (1989), the Legislators XI led by Chief Minister Rane trounced the Press XI, led by Mudaliar.
I used to report the traditional cricket match between the legislators and journalists in the column in a running commentary form.
Opposing Views by Legislators on the Age of Consent.
Thus matters stood until 1855, when the worthy legislators managed to put the law in a curiously awkward shape.
The music and the morris-dance have gone from England; and instead of providing, as formerly, for the amusement of the grinded labourer, our legislators now regard with the most watchful jealousy his most distant approach to festivity.
I doubt," said the earnest Constance, "whether the legislators are not right.
I am inclined to think that the legislators had in view the possible recurrence of what had very lately happened, that an ambitious cabal might get the king's person into their power.
If that were true, would it not always be wise for legislators to give their affidavits and place on file their interpretation of the law they had confirmed, and placed on the statute books?
This offered to thelegislators a bonus of £1500, and for this bribe it asked for the sole right to prospect for and obtain gold, precious stones, and all other minerals over more than half of Liberia.
We have shown that the principal aim of the legislators of 1789 was to divide the sovereign authority into two parts.
The growth of these evils has been encouraged by the policy of the legislators of the States, but it has been resisted by the legislators of the Union by every means which lay within their control.
I have already observed that distinguished as almost all the legislators of the Union were for their intelligence, they were still more so for their patriotism.
The ideas there formed of the duties of society towards its members are evidently much loftier and more comprehensive than those of the European legislators at that time: obligations were there imposed which were elsewhere slighted.
The American legislators undertook a difficult task in attempting to create an executive power dependent on the majority of the people, and nevertheless sufficiently strong to act without restraint in its own sphere.
It is at the same time less formidable and less efficacious; indeed, it has not been considered by the legislators of the United States as a remedy for the more violent evils of society, but as an ordinary means of conducting the government.
Providence, in placing the Legislators at Mazas, has performed an act of good education.
It may be seen that these legislators bore little malice to the man who had made them undergo this disagreeable taste of the law.
All these different institutions show, that enlightened legislators have entertained but one opinion upon this subject both in Europe and America for the last four hundred years.
That, to my mind, is a very dangerous doctrine for legislators to broach; it is a doctrine to which I myself can never agree, for it is making Government a nullity.
Standing, as I do, in the highly-responsible situation of one of the legislators of this extensive country, I hope to have stability and integrity sufficient to enable me to discharge my duty to my constituents.
It is gratifying to note that the rapid disappearance of the mountain sheep has made some impression on legislators in certain States where it is native.
It seems to me that this system of small refuges would have the merit of fairness both to the hunters and to the deer, and it is respectfully submitted to the legislators of the United States.
He held that the Georgia rescinding act was a violation of the contract clause of the Constitution and in doing so asserted that courts cannot examine the motives that induce legislators to pass a law.
All the old horrors were again paraded to induce the legislators to support Wilkinson in his lawless acts.
Company reports annually to the Raad from Amsterdam in a language which is practically foreign to it, and makes up its accounts in guelders, a coinage which our legislators I venture to say know nothing of; and this is independence.
We therefore resolved in all loyalty to abstain from inflaming angry passions, although we never admitted we had by act or speech given reason for legislators to refuse justice to all.
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