Sentence examples for legislative precedent from inspiring English sources

Plus, anybody who claims to be voting solely in the defense of legislative precedent is fibbing or delusional.

Further, the new law has the potential to provide a vital legislative precedent towards to the goal of re-establishing herd immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases.

The Bribery Act offers a legislative precedent that a new law on corporate liability could adopt – making a "failure to prevent" wrongdoing a criminal offence.

This cuts against all notions of fair play and substantial justice and flouts Supreme Court and legislative precedent.

I'd summarize it as GOP lawmakers simply bringing to bear the tools of engagement that legislative precedent grants them.

But legislative precedent plus the huge benefits it bestows on health care recipients (that far outweigh any damage to states' budget coffers, since most ACA costs are federally subsidized, anyway), say that Congress intended the federal subsidies for low-income Medicaid recipients to be applied to all states, regardless of whether states set up their own exchanges.

Supporters of the NDEA pointed to federal legislative precedents, such as the Morrill Act in 1862, which granted land to the states that they could then sell to finance the establishment of colleges, and the Smith-Hughes Act in 1917, which funded vocational agricultural education programs.

As a matter of legislative consequence, the precedent is not hugely significant.

As the Court today admits, there is no such contrary legislative history or precedent with respect to jurisdiction over church-operated schools.

New York's legislation is the precedent for other legislative initiatives around the country and it is composed of a relatively diverse set of assembly members.

You also do not need to be a legal scholar, know anything about the U.S. Constitution, nor reference legislative history or precedents.