As part of the price for getting the pre-K funding that he wanted from Albany, de Blasio was forced to watch the governor and the state legislature appropriate extra funds for charter schools, and introduce new restrictions on what the city can do to limit their activities.
For example, the Chinese thinker Jiang Qing has argued for a tricameral legislature appropriate for the Chinese context, with a meritocratic "House of Exemplary Persons" and a "House of Cultural Continuity" that would complement and balance a democratic legislature (Jiang 2012).
"Nothing but money will do it," proclaimed Owsley, "and it is left to the appropriate department – the legislature – to determine on the expediency or inexpediency of raising it".
It was enough to prompt this tweet from political blogger/former NDP MLA David Schreck: "Is Premier Clark's cleavage revealing attire appropriate for the legislature?" Schreck was rightly criticized for his sexist remarks, remarks that Clark characterized as "stupid".
Ultimately, being able to review legislation by applying the substantive aspect of natural justice would "entitle courts to examine whether it is appropriate for the legislature to deprive individual of certain aspects of their personal liberty, and the manner in which such deprivation is achieved".
The Scalia opinion, as sound as it was for keeping judges out of theological questions or at least out of balancing those interests against other public policy objectives, a matter more appropriate for the legislature, led to its attempted statutory reversal.
Legislatures appropriate a certain amount of money to buy food.
But by the late 1920s, the Mississippi State legislature appropriated funds to build a successor institution.
The Florida legislature appropriated $2 million to renovate a plain, thick-walled marine equipment warehouse that Mr. Morse selected over more impressive structures.
Michigan's state legislature appropriated $300,000 for the pilot program, although a health department spokesman, Bob Wheaton, said the state has spent only $300.
