Sentence examples for functional legislature from inspiring English sources

A line must be drawn, whether by the courts when the legislature is unresponsive, or by a functional legislature.

If lawmakers had a personal incentive to make the state legislature more functional, they would act more responsibly.

Fairly considered, the Texas legislature is more functional than the United States Congress, and more genteel than the House of Commons.

By his reckoning, the 120-member legislature could become functional again if an "ethical bloc" of as few as five "principled and numerate" moderates could get elected, to break the stalemate.

Functional constituencies elect 30 of the legislature's 60 members, and only five of those seats are occupied by pro-democracy activists.

Half the legislature is composed of functional constituencies, and the chief executive is chosen by an electoral committee.

As soon as it gained control of Hong Kong in 1997, Beijing disbanded the legislature and shrank voter rights in the functional constituencies so that most of them would be controlled by business leaders with investments on the mainland.

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing ruled in 2007 that any expansion of the legislature would have to create equal numbers of functional and geographic constituencies.

The state legislature must craft regulations that are strict yet functional to ensure this regulatory system we have designed works well.

In May and June 1835, Michigan drafted a State Constitution, with provisions for a bicameral legislature, a supreme court, and other components of a functional state government.

To win a majority of the legislature, the democrats need to hold on to those 5 functional constituency seats and win 26 of the 30 directly elected seats.