Morley's major reform scheme, the Indian Councils Act of 1909 (popularly called the Morley-Minto Reforms), directly introduced the elective principle to Indian legislative council membership.
Two additional representatives were added temporarily after the admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states in 1959, but at the next legislative apportionment, membership returned to 435, the number authorized by a law enacted in 1941.
Formed in 2007, the N.D.W.A. has won state legislative victories, started membership services and created a political advocacy arm.
Except in a few circumstances, Mr. Woloch shows, Napoleon was able to control the membership of the legislative bodies and essentially to turn them into rubber stamps.
While the new efforts have not yet yielded enduring membership or national legislative gains, American unions have repositioned themselves for a potential organizing renaissance.
For several years a bipartisan coalition that constitutes almost the entire membership of the legislative branch has been voting military budgets in excess of what has been requested by the executive branch.
By Richard H. Rovere The New Yorker, May 12 , 1962P. 166 For several years a bipartisan coalition that constitutes almost the entire membership of the legislative branch has been voting military budgets in excess of what has been requested by the executive branch.
To check a filibuster endless debate obstructing legislative action three-fifths of the membership (60 senaction three-fifthsr clofure.
"For us, this hits and strikes right at the heart of our own membership," said Stephanie Roberson, legislative advocate for the California Nurses Assn., an Oakland based-nurses union.
