The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws. . . The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender. . . The legislature has ceded up to us the privilege of enacting such laws as are not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States. . . The different states, and even Congress itself, have passed many laws diametrically contrary to the Constitution of the United States.
The first thing I plan to do is what I did while serving in Arizona’s legislature — and that was to seek out members that I often disagreed with on important issues. It was through our authentic relationships and mutual respect that we found common ground on legislation that helped people. The challenge for Congress is to move past the harsh partisanship that we saw in the last term. This is a critical step in advancing policies that will strengthen and protect LGBT families.
Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.
How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.
Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power - that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.
A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States.
The sky is always falling or the sky is always bright. In some ways, this is really morning in America and we don't see it. People are living longer, the economy is doing pretty well. On the other hand, there are some ways of thinking in the current situation that make it look not so good, including our Star Wars prequels - like legislature, meaning they're talking a lot, not doing a lot.
They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
No state legislature ever built a great university.
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.