In such an age a legislature continuously sitting, always making laws, always repealing laws, would have been both an anomaly and a nuisance.
ANY permanent legislature at all, any constantly acting mechanism for enacting and repealing laws, is, though it seems to us so natural, quite contrary to the inveterate conceptions of mankind.
Repealing the 15th amendment would not take it away; that amendment is no more sacred, but just as sacred as any other part of the constitution; but repealing it could not take away a right.
Not only did they again refuse to repeal the law of 1662, but they "rudely and boldly disputed the King's authority in repealing laws by proclamation.
On the terms, however, as Erskine chose to present them, an agreement was reached, and the President issued a proclamation repealing the acts of embargo and non-intercourse as against Great Britain and her colonies after June 10.
In return, a bill was brought in, and, after some debate, passed to the lords, repealing in a considerable degree the persecuting laws against their worship.
Bills were accordingly more than once ordered to be brought in for repealingthe triennial act; but no further steps were taken till the king thought it at length necessary in the year 1664 to give them an intimation of his desires.
Four days later, commenced the struggle which ended in repealing that Congressional prohibition.
When he did so, it ended in his inserting a provision substantially repealing the Missouri Compromise.
The law should have been repealed immediately; but while the Senate passed a bill repealing it some five or six years ago, the bill failed to pass in the House of Representatives.
Next day Senator Dixon expressed his satisfaction with the amendment, which he interpreted as virtually repealing the Missouri Compromise.
Curiously enough it was in the Hall of Marius that the decree repealing the sentence of banishment was actually proposed and passed.
As early as May the Senate passed a resolution repealing the decree of banishment, the news of it having caused an outburst of joy in the city.
It is unnecessary to notice that which rested solely on the inexpediency of repealing the Stamp Act, "the compulsory enforcement of which was required by the honor and dignity of the kingdom.
It may be added, as a consideration of no small practical weight, that, without such a Declaratory Act, the King would have been very reluctant to consent to the other and more important Repealing Act.
Their measure was divided into two acts, one known as the Declaratory Act, asserting the absolute and universal authority of Parliament; the other repealing the Stamp Act of the preceding year.
The one contended that there could be no sufficient reason for repealing a law from which no one suffered; the other, that it was a needless provocation of ill-feeling to retain a law which no one ever dreamed of enforcing.
He never swerved in his advocacy of Roman catholic relief, but he was unmoved by arguments in favour of repealing the test and corporation acts.
A surplus of two millions enabled Althorp to propitiate an importunate class of taxpayers by repealing the house tax.
Accordingly, a committee of the house of commons reported in favour of repealing these laws, and also part of the common law which treated coercion either by trade unions or by masters as conspiracy.
But what do you imagine they will think were the motives of repealing the act?
But instead of formally repealing the Edicts by a public Decree, he sent two messengers to Paris to communicate his change of purpose to the Deputies by word of mouth.
Duc de Mortemart himself, and a copy of the Decree repealing the Ordinances.
I think, with deference I say it, that you are not strictly accurate in calling the legislation of 1862 a repealing one.
Of the constitutionality of repealing the law I have no doubt, but the equity and expediency of depriving the twenty-six judges of office and pay is not quite so obvious.
In April, 1786, the repealing act passed; and the restriction on the tory lawyers being removed, they were permitted to practise in the several courts of the state.
The Society for Repealing the Taxes upon Knowledge met in many places.
Petition and Advice should not be construed as repealing or annulling any Laws or Ordinances already in force, not distinctly incompatible with itself.
They ordered a Bill to be brought in for repealing the Act by which Scobell held the Clerkship.
The question of repealingthe other oppressive laws came up in the Convention of 1850.
There were more persons interested in furnishing them facilities of education than in repealing the prohibitive measures, feeling that the other matters would adjust themselves after giving them adequate training.
Unlike England, in the civil war now raging in Spain, we have not licensed interference by repealing our penalties: we have not stimulated action by withdrawing obstacles.
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