Sentence examples for legislature operates from inspiring English sources

But there will be a huge impact on the way the legislature operates next year.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives approved a rules package on Wednesday, the first day of business for the 112th Congress, that will dictate the way the legislature operates this year and reflects a shift to Republican control of the lower chamber.

And it will most likely reinforce that the Legislature operates in a climate of minimal and selective disclosure, where secrets are closely guarded.

While it is true that the Legislature operates under different statutory FOIL requirements, I take issue with your portrayal of Assembly FOIL policies, which are clearly described in the Rules of the Assembly.

Mr. Spence and about five friends grew so irritated with what they call the dysfunctional nature of government in Albany that they formed an organization aimed at increasing public awareness of the problem and persuading public officials to support changes in the rules governing how the Legislature operates.

VI, cl. 2. As Chief Justice Marshall long ago explained, under the Supremacy Clause a treaty is "to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision". Foster, supra, at 314.

In legislatures that operate under term limits, many lawmakers are looking at budget reductions for the first time in their careers.

But even in North American and European Union nations, fewer than a majority of respondents expressed "some" or "a lot" of trust that their elected legislatures were operating in society's best interests.

But in the small number that have already responded to the Miller ruling, governors and legislatures still operate within the tough-on-crime framework that led to the rise in the wrongheaded imposition of life without parole on so many juveniles in the first place, based on the bogus notion that they were "superpredators".

He said that because many judges and lawyers had interpreted the 1977 Coker decision as barring capital punishment for any rape, state legislatures "have operated under the ominous shadow" of that decision "and thus have not been free to express their own understanding of our society's standards of decency".

A properly operating legislature apportions benefits and burdens in a way that balances competing interests.