All 50 Uses
legislature
in
The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2
(Auto-generated)
- Legislatures also feel rage, resentment, jealousy, avarice, and other violent emotions.†
p. 32.5 *legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- And one branch of the national legislature—the House of Commons—represent the people.†
p. 32.9legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- If legislatures are unrestrained by a national government, they will not behave fairly.†
p. 36.5legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- For example, Connecticut wanted to retaliate against Rhode Island because of offenses by the Rhode Island legislature.†
p. 36.6legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- Legislators: Parties to Causes†
p. 44.1
- Yet legislators are both advocates and parties to the causes they determine.†
p. 44.2
- Yet legislators, who are both creditors and debtors, are the judges.†
p. 44.3
- The national issues are referred to the national government; local issues are referred to State legislatures.†
p. 46.5legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- And the State legislatures have learned the folly of attempting them.†
p. 52.1
- The distant legislatures of the states that make up the alliance will discuss the resolution at different times.†
p. 63.9
- It must not need approval from the State legislatures.†
p. 66.2
- If every federal law must be approved by each State legislature, if a State just doesn't ACT (NON-COMPLIANCE) they defeat the law.†
p. 66.5legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- Blocking a national law would require a factious majority in the State legislature, the courts, and the citizens.†
p. 66.9
- If judges didn't conspire with the legislature, they would rule that the State law was contrary to the supreme law of the land, unconstitutional, and void.†
p. 66.9
- If they didn't agree with the State legislature, they would support the national government.†
p. 67.1
- A legislature, the diet, represents the states in the confederacy.†
p. 74.6
- The legislature (the diet) has the power to make war and peace, make alliances, assess quotas for troops and money, construct forts, regulate coins, admit new states, and punish disobedient states.†
p. 74.7
- States of the confederacy can't make treaties that could hurt the empire, impose duties on interstate commerce without the consent of the emperor and legislature, alter the value of money, or assist internal rebellions.†
p. 74.8
- It rests on the fundamental principle that the empire is a community of sovereigns, that the legislature represents sovereign states, and that the laws are addressed to sovereign states.†
p. 75.2
- An enemy can invade the country before the legislature decides on a military defense.†
p. 75.8
- Sometimes compromises won't be possible and the legislature will be unable to act.†
p. 86.1
- Currently, thirteen different legislatures and thirteen different supreme courts can interpret or misinterpret every treaty signed by the United States.†
p. 87.6legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- Instead, the State legislatures approved it.†
p. 88.5
- Some people want to limit the LEGISLATURE'S authority to establish national military bases.†
p. 91.7legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- Only Legislature Can Raise Army†
p. 91.9
- The legislature, not the president, has the power to raise armies.†
p. 91.9
- And the legislature's power is limited.†
p. 91.9
- The other eleven either say nothing on the subject or allow the legislature to authorize their existence.†
p. 92.1
- Putting a clause in the Constitution that prohibits the legislature from establishing a peacetime military would be improper.†
p. 92.5
- New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Delaware, and Maryland each have a clause in their bills of rights, to this effect: "Standing armies are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be raised or kept up WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE LEGISLATURE," which admits that the legislature has the authority.†
p. 92.8
- New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Delaware, and Maryland each have a clause in their bills of rights, to this effect: "Standing armies are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be raised or kept up WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE LEGISLATURE," which admits that the legislature has the authority.†
p. 92.8
- The legislature should decide when an army is needed.†
p. 93.6
- Improper restraints on the national legislature create problems.†
p. 95.1
- They believe it would stop executive and legislature conspiracies to use the military to take over the government.†
p. 95.4
- The legislature will authorize national defense.†
p. 97.2
- Pennsylvania and North Carolina have tried to limit the legislature's power to authorize armed forces.†
p. 97.3
- It is better to take the chance that their confidence will be abused than endanger the public safety with impractical limits on the legislature's authority.†
p. 97.4
- Unlike the opponents of the proposed Constitution, the majority of Americans agree that the legislature must have full authority to authorize military forces.†
p. 97.5
- They didn't want to restrain the legislature's discretion.†
p. 98.1
- By giving the legislature this power, they found the balancing point between precaution and the safety of the community.†
p. 98.2
- States: Legislatures Raise Military†
p. 98.2legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- Some States didn't make this error but they have unnecessarily declared that standing armies are not to be kept up in peacetime WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE LEGISLATURE.†
p. 98.5legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- Under the State constitutions, only the legislatures have the power to raise armies.†
p. 98.6legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- When a situation arises, the legislature will interpret the clause as only an admonition and yield to the real or imagined needs of the State.†
p. 98.8legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- The provision is useless if the legislature can just ignore it whenever they want to.†
p. 98.9
- At least once in every two years the United States legislature will be forced to decide whether to keep a military force and declare their position by a formal, public vote.†
p. 99.1
- State legislatures will jealously guard the citizens' rights against encroachments from the federal government.†
p. 99.3legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
- State legislatures will be the VOICE and, if necessary, the ARM of the people's discontent.†
p. 99.3
- The legislature and executive would have to conspire for a long time.†
p. 99.4legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- They say that once the president has a large enough military to force the people into submission, it would also be large enough to get supplies without help from the legislature.†
p. 99.9
Definitions:
-
(1)
(legislature) a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)