I have had some of the politicians pointed out to me in the Legislature, and they look like it.
I wish to Heaven that this and every other State had a George Washington for governor and a majority of Robert Morrises in the Legislature.
The politicians could ruin us in a single session of the Legislature--and what's more, they would do it.
That you appoint the governors and those that go to the Legislature, and that--Hilary Vane gets them elected.
The legislature assembles on the first Tuesday in January, and sits for about three months.
The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and other officers are elected by vote of the people, as well as the members of the legislature.
He makes a message to the legislature when it meets--a sort of Queen's speech; and he receives for his services a compensation to be established by law.
He has also a veto upon all bills sent up by the legislature.
On December 7th such part of Transylvania as lay within the chartered limits of Virginia was erected by the legislature of that colony into the County of Kentucky.
The legislature was to consist of but a single house.
Else it is very obvious that the intention of the law in refusing that right might be entirely frustrated, and the whole power of the legislature baffled.
In arbitrary Governments, the constitution of the Ministry follows the constitution of the Legislature.
Their only laws are made and unmade at the caprice of the legislature, and are as variable as the legislature itself.
The tendency of some of these regulations to raise the value of timber in America, and thereby to facilitate the clearing of the land, was neither, perhaps, intended nor understood by the legislature.
These encouragements, although at bottom, perhaps, as I shall endeavour to show hereafter, altogether illusory, sufficiently demonstrate at least the good intention of the legislature to favour agriculture.
Secondly, they have been misled by the slovenly manner in which some ancient statutes of assize had been sometimes transcribed by lazy copiers, and sometimes, perhaps, actually composed by the legislature.
If these damned demagogues in the legislature keep on cutting down the hours of women and children every three years or so--and we can't run the mill without the women and children--we might as well shut down right now.
The Legislature, he maintained, could not undertake to investigate such matters until called to its attention.
They therefore, as usual, encroached on the province which rightfully belonged to the legislature.
How many square miles, which were formerly uncultivated or ill cultivated, have, during the same period, been fenced and carefully tilled by the proprietors without any application to the legislature, can only be conjectured.
And all Englishmen who valued liberty and law, saw with uneasiness the deep inroad which the prerogative had made into the province of the legislature.
The chief business of the sovereign was to infringe the privileges of the legislature.
In 1808, three years before the building of the Cumberland Road, Joshua Forman offered a bill in favor of the canal in the Legislature of New York.
This petition was derisively rejected; but a similar one made to the Legislature of Maryland was granted on the ground that such action could hurt nobody.
In arbitrary governments, the constitution of the ministry follows the constitution of the legislature.
The only difference is, that if the State ratified it by the legislature, she could abrogate it by the legislature; if in convention, she could abrogate it only in convention.
It had been dissolved after a session of two months; and during six years the King had governed without having recourse to the legislature.
Nor was he by any means so formidable as to be a proper subject for a retrospective ordinance of the legislature.
He had, according to the testimony of his own friends, usurped the functions of the legislature, raised taxes without the consent of parliament, and quartered troops on the people in the most illegal and vexatious manner.
The theory of the Constitution, the fundamental laws which fix the powers of the three branches of the legislature, underwent no material change between the time of Elizabeth and the time of William the Third.
In the United States, sheriffs are elected by the legislature or by the citizens, or appointed and commissioned by the executive of the State.
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