Sentence examples for representative legislature from inspiring English sources

The terms president, representative, legislature, congress, constitution, and parliament are all French.

Given that India has never had a Parliament where women have an equal voice, it's not easy to imagine what a more representative legislature would look like.

The resulting document guaranteed full powers for a representative legislature, the right to ownership of private property, and freedoms of speech, press and assembly.

Every Arab country now has a form of representative legislature, even if most have little power and some, like Saudi Arabia's, are appointed by a king.Some of these autocracies allow more pluralism than others.

The current lower house was chosen in November in a vote boycotted by the Brotherhood and some leftist groups who said the electoral system, a mix of direct voting and quotas, did not allow for a representative legislature.

But its continued success is jeopardised by the failure to tackle the big unresolved issue left at the handover: the establishment of an accountable government checked and balanced by a representative legislature.

"The totalitarian system has been eliminated…free elections…free press, freedom of worship, representative legislatures and a multi-party system have all become reality .A few hours later, America's then president, George Bush senior, declared victory in the cold war.

According to his analysis, the high-speed imperatives of modern warfare and weapons systems strengthened the executive and debilitated representative legislatures.

Rather, they elect representatives to legislatures that then enact substantive legislative programs.

Notice that Crummell is not making the merely political point that rights ought not be based on the partiality that the public (and its duly elected representatives in legislatures) might extend to blacks.

It's a state where a black representative to the legislature proposed giving municipal employees time off for Confederate Memorial Day, and where a boycott of the state's tourism industry by the NAACP and other civil rights organisations continues to this day because of the confederate flag flying on the grounds of the state capitol.