Quotes About Legislature

The free exercise of religion was another matter. Delegate Samuel Johnston described a proposal requiring each member of the legislature to take a test oath swearing "that he believed in the holy Trinity and that the Scripture of the Old Testament was written by divine inspiration. This was carried after a very warm debate and has blown up such a flame that every thing is in danger of being thrown into confusion."185 But a watered down sectarian test oath was finally adopted as Article

There is a single reference to the members of the House of Representatives being "chosen every second Year by the People of the several States," but this is qualified by the additional clause that "the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature." That meant the voters rather than the people at large.

My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.

No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

Independence of Judiciary means independence from Executive and Legislature, but not independence from accountability.

When still a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, he referred to a hostile opponent who had entered the chamber as "the thing which has crawled into this House and adheres to one of the seats by its own slime.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Carl Parker observes, if you took all the fools out of the Lege, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore.

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.

America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.

In Donetsk, a major industrial center, pro-Russian militia in camouflage and ersatz military gear stormed the local legislature, brandishing Soviet and czarist-era banners (with even a Confederate flag for added nostalgia).

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

country drenched with blood than pay taxes to support the government foisted upon us by the Bogus Legislature. I thought White was going to burst a blood vessel there and then, but instead he just stomped away.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

we lose faith not just in parliamentarians and congressmen, but in Parliament and Congress themselves.