Now that the Senate is in Democratic hands, the Democratically controlled State Assembly isn't quite as eager.
Companies that meet the vague and slippery threshold in this bill could evade democratically enacted state and local sick days laws that are already improving conditions in 8 states and 32 localities.
The new Iraq has to be different, a democratically created state that reflects the will of its peoples and accommodates their diversity.
The country's first post-Soviet president, Askar Akayev, a physicist by training, initially pursued liberal policies and earned it a reputation as the most democratically oriented state in central Asia.
That's why we need a major campaign for education, the focus of which should be how we work towards returning schools to their rightful place: the democratically accountable state sector".
Massachusetts passed its plan under a Republican governor (and a Democratically controlled state legislature).
Higher taxes, rather than raising more revenue and narrowing deficits, have resulted in an exodus of productive citizens out of the Democratically controlled state.
During the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, blacks in the South had many rights that they lost when the occupying Union army was withdrawn and democratically elected state governments took over, ushering in the Jim Crow era.
Extending Jefferson's logic, it also holds that religions must not interfere with the running of the democratically elected state, prevented from doing so by this same wall of separation.
According to the website ThinkProgress,"The bill, passed by Nevada's Democratically controlled state legislature, would have required a background check prior to all gun sales and would have increased reporting of mental illness data.
