Sentence examples for ordinary legislation from inspiring English sources

But what about ordinary legislation and appointments?

"Beyond question, the V.R.A. is no ordinary legislation," she wrote.

The most important function of parliament is ordinary legislation.

A majority should be enough — just as it should be enough to pass ordinary legislation.

"In other words," he said, "it won't be possible for ordinary legislation to change term limits".

"The framers never intended ordinary legislation to require a supermajority vote," the court said.

The vast majority of EU legislation is passed through the ordinary legislative procedure, also known as "co-decision".

The Parliament and the Council of the European Union pass legislation jointly in nearly all areas under the ordinary legislative procedure.

Along with the extension of the ordinary legislative procedure, the Parliament's democratic mandate has given it greater control over legislation against the other institutions.

First, some doubt that there is a coherent way of drawing the distinction between constitutional essentials and matters of basic justice on the one hand, and matters of ordinary political legislation on the other (Greenawalt 1994, 685 86).

Conservatives have always argued that liberals are elitists who do not respect ordinary Americans; this legislation seems to prove it.