Sentence examples for legislative exercise from inspiring English sources
"legislative exercise" is correct and usable in written English
This phrase can be used to refer to a legislature's process of enacting laws, or it can be used to refer to an individual's study of a law. For example, "When studying civil rights, it is important to understand the history of the legislative exercise that led to modern civil rights protections."
In Britain, they had been used to confiscate property or revoke titles of nobility from opponents of the monarchy, and the American founding fathers deemed them a legislative exercise of judicial power, or trial by legislature.
The aide also discussed its relationship to a broader legislative exercise, called reauthorization, of the 2010 America COMPETES Act, which sets policy and funding levels for NSF and several other federal research agencies.
The provinces are under the authority of a governor, with legislative power exercised by the provincial council.
The Supreme Court has held on more than one occasion that legislative officials cannot exercise executive power.
Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, called the legislative action "an exercise in theater," which I suppose it was but only because he has promised a veto.
"A European federation means nothing less than a European government and parliament that effectively exercise legislative and executive powers within the federation," Mr. Fischer said in a speech at Berlin's Humboldt University.
They will be invited to embrace what Mr Fischer has called "nothing less than a European parliament and a European government which really do exercise legislative and executive power", in return for the prospect of being co-leaders of the project.
They held that this section completely removed any power held by the United Kingdom to exercise legislative power over Australia.
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County government is divided among several bodies including the boards of the county's three school districts, three elected commissioners who exercise legislative and executive powers, an elected county council that controls the county budget, a circuit and superior court, and township trustees who oversee government function in the county's 12 townships.
Legislative power is exercised by a bicameral parliament, which consists of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
