Sentence examples for governmental legislatures from inspiring English sources

This set the precedent of bicameralism for most governmental legislatures in the United States, including the eventual federal legislature.

Although in the United States all 50 states except Nebraska have bicameral legislatures, their governmental systems are unitary.

Constitutional law is complicated stuff, and legislatures and governmental officers frequently get it wrong.

All of Rhode Island's charters and constitutions have vested most of the governmental power in the legislature and have left the governor comparatively weak.

It resembles Lochner, of course, in the respect that it rejects a novel assertion of governmental power which the legislature believed to be justified.

Here, the term "transport planning scheme" refers to a composition of legislature, official governmental documents, and plans resolved or approved by the Diet, the Cabinet or minister(s), which frames directionality of the future infrastructural development of transport in the country.

This is justified in the name of public interest as the legislature, administration and governmental institutions will then strive to make improvements.

However, in many instances legislatures have waived this governmental immunity by express statutory enactments.

"We give considerable deference to legislatures' determinations about what governmental activities will advantage the public.

The Free Exercise Clause "protect[s] religious observers against unequal treatment," Hobbie v. Unemployment Appeals Comm'n of Florida, 480 U.S. 136, 148 (1987) (STEVENS, J., concurring in judgment), and inequality results when a legislature decides that the governmental interests it seeks to advance are worthy of being pursued only against conduct with a religious motivation.

During the second half of the 20th century, the monarchs increasingly divested themselves of their power, and in 2008 King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk, the fifth in a royal line that had been established in 1907, completed the transfer of governmental authority to a popularly elected, multiparty, bicameral legislature.