Sentence examples for upon statutes from inspiring English sources

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In 1902 the concepts of initiative and referendum were introduced, by which voters are able to initiate and vote upon statutes or constitutional revisions; these were supplemented in 1908 by the system of recall, under which the removal of elected officials can be initiated by the voters.

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This was after a California supreme court ruling that a previously voted-upon statute (Proposition 22) was unconstitutional under state law.

Public shareholders are largely reliant upon statute and case-law for protection.

"It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar, or novel, and even shocking, ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States".

But I am here to say that in a great cause these labor organizations, despised and weak and outlawed as they generally are, have stood for the poor, they have stood for the weak, they have stood for every human law that was ever placed upon the statute books.

statute of limitations: We are also of opinion that as the right of the plaintiff to sue was given by, and is dependent upon, the statute, the statute of limitations is a bar to the action.

The trial court dismissed the case, based upon Florida Statute §409.1671 (1)(h), which grants immunity to community-based care providers for the acts or omissions of its employees or its subcontractors' employees.

He argued that statutes, which pass upon simple majorities of both houses of Congress, usually "will work just fine".

They are regarded as the wards of the state, and, generally speaking, possessed of only such rights to appear and litigate in courts of justice as are conferred upon them by statute.

State statutes, based upon directives from trained engineers hired by the Board of Internal Improvement, required that turnpike construction follow complex procedures.

"If each official were empowered to decide whether or not to carry out each ministerial act based upon the official's own personal judgment of the constitutionality of an underlying statute, the enforcement of statutes would become haphazard, leading to confusion and chaos".

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