Sentence examples for subject of legislation from inspiring English sources

The reason my theoretical anti-Tim society isn't the subject of legislation is that it is not a real problem.

No one doubts that protection of the home is a proper subject of legislation, but that end can be served without prohibiting interstate commerce.

But while he must, for security's sake, be able to take all this into account, he must before all things understand the subject of legislation; for it is on a country's laws that its whole welfare depends.

The government's own guidance on its information services states: "Government publicity for proposals which are, or may become, the subject of legislation in parliament remains a particularly sensitive area.

'* * * the granting of divorces was a rightful subject of legislation according to the prevailing judicial opinion of the country, and the understanding of the profession at the time the organic act of Oregon was passed by congress, when either of the parties divorced was at the time a resident within the territorial jurisdiction of the legislature.' 125 U.S. at page 209, 8 S.Ct. at page 728.

Genetically modified crops were the subject of legislation outlawing them and numerous protests in Europe and elsewhere in which biotech crops were ripped from the ground.

That is a difference which the Constitution sets up between religion and almost every other subject matter of legislation, a difference which goes to the very root of religious freedom and which the Court is overlooking today.

[I]t belongs and appertains to the citizen, and not to the Government, and it is the evidence of his election to exercise his right, and not the power to control either the election or the right itself, which is the legitimate subject matter of legislation.

On the other hand, Albert comes to have some duty of financial prudence because of the effect of these developments on Albert's finances, together with certain personal circumstances and standing obligations that seem unrelated to the subject matter of legislation and to the principles that govern it.

The Senate Report on the Foraker bill could not possibly be clearer in saying, with reference to the 'not locally inapplicable' phrase, that the 'legislative assembly * * * shall have complete power, subject to the veto of the governor and the supervision of Congress, to legislate upon all rightful subjects of legislation.' (Emphasis supplied). S.Rep.

It never has been found possible to lay down any infallible or all-inclusive test by the application of which it may be determined whether a given difference between the subjects of legislation is enough to justify the subjection of one and not the other to a particular form of disadvantage.