Search results for "Legislators" - New World Encyclopedia
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- are that a relatively small group of legislators might not provide adequate ... insufficient to prevent a small group of legislators from engaging in corruption ...13 KB (1,792 words) - 01:55, 26 March 2024
- Lobbying is the practice of trying to persuade legislators or officials ... to lobbying. Many lobbyists are former legislators, Congressional aides, ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- ecologists, economists, family planners, legislators and politicians, lawyers ... someone—whether medical professionals, legislators, parents, or others—to ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- addition to their positions as teachers and legislators. They were also leaders of the people and negotiators with the Roman Empire. ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 04:25, 27 February 2023
- The use of the electric chair has declined as legislators sought what they believed to be more humane methods of execution. Lethal injection ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
- (1689), establishing the rights of legislators in Parliament against ... Article 5. elections of executives and legislators were incorporated into ...36 KB (5,472 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- businesses. Judges, police officers, and legislators are especially targeted for control by organized crime via bribes, threats, or a combination ...12 KB (1,649 words) - 10:42, 11 March 2023
- The decisions of past jurists and legislators may or may not have been correct at the time but it is universally understood that the law needs ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- in the nineteenth century. Most black legislators were smallholders or merchants ... administrators outmaneuvered the elected legislators on numerous occasions ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 17:13, 30 January 2024
- Adopting a different strategy, creationist legislators enacted a 1981 ... on the grounds that the Louisiana legislators had “specifically articulated ...31 KB (4,607 words) - 06:18, 11 January 2024
- in 1902 than today, Congress's practical legislators refused to fund so ambitious a project. The idea did not die though, and various guides to ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- Bush in 2004. A bipartisan group of US legislators introduced the bill, including ... For example, by 1801, New York legislators found it necessary to pass ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- the noble deeds of Greek and Roman soldiers, legislators, orators, and statesmen. The biographies, which paired Greek and Roman subjects in comparisons ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- by urban and, eventually, suburban, legislators and statewide officeholders. ... This Honorable Body: African American Legislators in 19th Century Tennessee ...47 KB (6,620 words) - 03:00, 19 April 2023
- and the Senate. In 2007, state legislators were paid $200 for their two-year term, plus mileage, effectively making the state legislators volunteers ...33 KB (4,724 words) - 09:19, 11 March 2023
- often is. Because of this, Idaho's legislators are considered "citizen ... the late 1950s, although Democratic legislators are routinely elected ...41 KB (5,855 words) - 15:35, 12 February 2024
- the rights of such parents. Many legislators believe this order to provide the security and sense of belonging that many long-term foster children ...21 KB (3,334 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- factors, especially by climate, but that wise legislators, once they understood the laws governing the social world, could compensate for physical disadvantages ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- in order for judges instead of legislators to guarantee fundamental ... and morality that properly belong with legislators ("legislating from ...45 KB (7,039 words) - 01:13, 16 January 2023
- leaving education to ideologically-motivated legislators and judges, rather than ideologically-driven professors. According to the American Association ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- and seduction by the other two classes, the legislators' decree explicitly avoided issuing punitive measures against third class émigrés—whereas ...23 KB (3,164 words) - 20:20, 30 September 2023
- rather a part-time position. Consequently, the legislators often hold a full-time job in their community of residence. Typically, the legislature is ...40 KB (5,933 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 10:54, 19 December 2023
- has one senator and two representatives. Legislators are elected for two-year terms. Each legislature covers a two-year period. Arizona state ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- The difficulty that state legislators have had in understanding new technologies may be seen in the bewildering variety of exemptions to sales ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- made in court, or statements by legislators on the floor of the legislature, or statements made by a person to their spouse, are the cause for ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- their practices and rewarded part-time legislators and other officials with ... His bills met opposition from many legislators and the media, but Long ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- and used his influence to fast-track projects in legislators' home districts, a tactic for which these same lawmakers repaid him by granting money ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- would only increase the number of pro-slavery legislators. Northern delegates argued only voters should be counted. Southern delegates countered ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- disproportionate number of ministers and legislators assigned to the Turkish ... repeatedly vetoed by the Turkish Cypriot legislators at the behest of Turkey ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- and in part influenced Polish legislators to ban corporal punishment from Poland's schools in 1783.P. Newell, A Last Resort? Corporal Punishment ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- duties (disregarding the motives of the legislators) is to be found in their discriminatory effects between domestic and foreign producers. ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- Even legislators who agreed with the sentiment of the bill asserted ... Black and Hispanic legislators in Florida took on the Rosewood compensation ...77 KB (11,899 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- the people, not God, are sovereign and legislators make law, whereas in Islam, God has already revealed God's law, which is perfect. Elected ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- life and society, an increasingly vocal chorus of legislators, scientists, and parents is raising objections to the uncritical acceptance of the medium. ...27 KB (3,983 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- got plenty of lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Legislators make law; judges interpret the Constitution." Washington Post, [http://www.washingtonpost ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- *Lawyers and Legislators: or, Notes, on the American Mining Companies (1825) *The present state of Mexico (1825) *England and France, or a Cure ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- informed, intelligent policymaking by the legislators of tomorrow."Earthlink, [http://home.earthlink.net/~durangodave/html/writing/Censorship.htm ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- often gave independent actors such as legislators and merchants greater status relative to the farmers of Dharmic religion, who had to work in ...31 KB (4,685 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- than the particular candidate. Elected legislators become representatives ... compatible incentives for candidates and legislators. One explanation for the ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- French, in particular, have opposed giving the legislators any additional authority. History.com. European Union. ==Notes== ==References== ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- accused of having a corrupting influence over legislators. As a result of this suspected influence, many states and countries require lobbyists to register ...32 KB (4,723 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- to the legislature), with 25 percent of the legislators appointed by the military and the rest elected in general elections. The legislature, ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- however, come under scrutiny from Maryland legislators regarding the veracity of crime statistics reported by the Baltimore City Police Department. In ...32 KB (4,493 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- after an intervening term, while legislators may be reelected immediately. The president exercises his power from the presidential Palacio de ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- White legislators created a new constitution in 1890, with provisions that effectively disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites. Estimates ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- and responsibilities of marriage; legislators declined, however, to use the term "marriage" for same-sex unions. Thus, three separate ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- to particular areas of concern; all legislators are also mandated to address national and international concerns as well as those that impact ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- A political stalemate between the French- and English-speaking legislators, as well as fear of aggression from the United States during the American ...35 KB (5,025 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- century. The list includes several mayors, state legislators, and government employees who have been found, or plead, guilty to a string of crimes ranging ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
