Sentence examples for rational legislature from inspiring English sources

"For all practical purposes then, a sentence of death in California is a sentence of life imprisonment with the remote possibility of death — a sentence no rational legislature or jury could ever impose.

Awaiting execution for decades "with complete uncertainty as to when, or even whether, it will ever come," Judge Carney wrote, is a punishment "no rational jury or legislature could ever impose".Of the more than 920 people California has sentenced to death since 1978, only 13 have been executed.

Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, who wrote the Supreme Judicial Court's November 2003 decision making same-sex marriage legal, wrote in the other concurring opinion, "It is rational for the legislature to take steps to ensure that marriages performed here will hold up elsewhere, and that they will not be ignored by other states".

At their best, they help legislatures make rational decisions and avoid disastrous policies that have failed elsewhere, like New York.

In the guise of business-friendly, rational economic management (made possible by Republican-dominated state legislatures), the new Republican conservatism aims for destruction of democratic checks and balances and replacement of rule by the many with rule by the few.

Accordingly, he rejected Virginia's contention that the constitutionality of the statutes, given their presumptive compatibility with the equal protection clause, should depend solely on whether they served a rational purpose a question best left to the wisdom of the state legislature, Virginia argued, in light of doubtful scientific evidence.

"We hope this will inspire other city councils and state legislatures across the country to start doing reasonable and rational policy making around guns," he said.

Thus, he argued, the Constitution "does not impose upon the legislature any one specific opinion, but leaves open (a) range of choice; and whatever choice is rational is constitutional".

Indeed, McDonald acknowledges as much in describing the rational-basis review applied by Supreme Court in Williamson v. Lee Optical (1955) as a "rubber stamp" and stating that "at least meaningful rational basis scrutiny should have been applied," owing to "facts [that] reeked of special interest group capture of the legislature".

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legislature in 1974.