Sentence examples for legislative theory from inspiring English sources

Peter L. Strauss, Legislative Theory and the Rule of Law: Some Comments on Rubin, 89 Colum.

What a commentary might hope to do is to suggest a series of next steps in the analysis, further questions that might be asked as we seek to develop the new body of legislative theory for which he calls.

You might call it the "legislative box" theory.

If he can't push through a legislative agenda, the theory appears to go, then what's the point of proposing one?

But when contacted by VICE, the president of the Asociación Unidos por los Desaparecidos (United Association for the Disappeared), Fernando Ocegueda, pointed to a third theory: legislative changes that allow bodies to be transported to a common grave after five days to alleviate overcrowding at the morgue.

The paper thus necessitates revisions to our theories of legislative organization, offers new arguments for balancing theories, and provides an empirical technique for studying the effects of majority-party status in legislative contexts.

Louisiana's legislators are continuing their legislative jihad to keep the theory of evolution out of the state's public school science classrooms.

This interpretation is not based on a theory of legislative silence as the majority seems to imply.

In the last quarter of the 20th century, child welfare evolved, both in theory and legislative practice, to place greater emphasis on the needs and interests of the child.

WASHINGTON — Senator Jeff Sessions, an elfin Alabamian with a mischievous smile and a relentless approach to legislative battle, has a theory about the sweeping immigration bill pending in the Senate: It's as good as dead.

This paper contributes to the positive political theory of legislative delegation by modeling formally the decision calculus of a rational legislator who must choose between delegation to an agency and delegation to a court.