Some places, such as Texas, manage well with only a part-time legislature.
Finally, the Californian economy in 1966 was doing fine, and nothing kept the legislature from raising taxes.
I also asked the legislature to raise cigarette, beer, and liquor taxes and to allocate more than half of our projected new revenues to the schools.
To circumvent such requirements, Mr Chavez may have to bypass the legislature through his control of the Supreme Court, a heavy-handed tactic he has used in the past.
If a state law does not discriminate against interstate commerce, they argue, the federal courts should not second-guess the state legislature about the balance between a statute's costs and benefits.
The norms and practices of the legislature do not foster good policy-making.
Bipartisan majorities in the state legislature voted for it, and the outgoing governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, considers the law one of his main achievements.
And although I'm not sure that the people who heard me deliver it were similarly impressed, enough of them appreciated my earnestness and youthful swagger that I made it to the Illinois legislature.
Only 37 years old, he has represented Orleans Parish in the state legislature since 2000.
The legislature currently has 299 seats, of which 243 are elected by regional vote and the remaining is distributed by the proportional representation ballot.
Mrs Merkel's coalition might lose control of the state legislature and Germany's upper house.
The governor of South Carolina (see article) tried to reject the stimulus, but he was overruled first by his legislature and then by the state’s highest court.
In many areas, policy oversight by elected officials in the legislature or the executive branch is a more important check on agency power than judicial review.
In exchange for more lenient sentencing Duval Barbosa, an aide to Mr Arruda, allowed himself to star in 30 videos in which he handed over cash to Allies in the state legislature.
Because Maurice loved the give-and-take of politics, he was especially effective in pushing my programs in the legislature.
