Sentence examples for legislative scheme from inspiring English sources

-- under the Florida legislative scheme?

A significant departure from the legislative scheme for appointing presidential electors presents a federal constitutional question.

Moreover, as in Quayle's case, the defence of necessity for which Altham was arguing ran contrary to the legislative scheme.

Allowing unqualified people to prescribe it to themselves or others "would involve obvious risks for the integrity and the prospects of any coherent enforcement of the legislative scheme".

In the court's view the "necessitous medical use on an individual basis … is in conflict with the purpose and effect of the legislative scheme".

Moreover, the court's interpretation of "legal vote," and hence its decision to order a contest-period recount, plainly departed from the legislative scheme.

In response, Florida's 1868 Constitution established a legislative apportionment scheme that diminished representation from densely populated black counties and put in place a lifetime voting ban for people with criminal convictions that targeted crimes for which blacks were most often convicted like larceny, perjury and bribery.

Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said he and his colleagues were skeptical of "grand legislative policy schemes" and favored "a step-by-step approach" focused on lowering health costs for families and businesses.

In many countries, organic farming now has a clear legislative basis and certification schemes for production and processing.

Mr. Cott was convicted in March of felony theft, conspiracy and conflict-of-interest charges for what prosecutors described as a wide-ranging scheme to use legislative employees and public resources to run campaigns.

"I never conducted my own investigation to figure out what went on here," O'Dowd said during a marathon hearing Monday before the state legislative panel investigating the traffic scheme.