The royal court, containing the tenants-in-chief of the crown, both lay and clerical, and entering into all the functions of the witenagemot, was the supreme council of the nation, with the advice and consent of which the King legislated, taxed, and judged.

Luther destroyed; Calvin legislated.

It would thus seem that Church and State were very much mixed up together by Calvin, who legislated in view of the circumstances which surrounded him, and not for other times or nations.

Had they been wise, all these years, to have legislated as though the old dangers by land and sea had passed?to have striven to make the people fat and prosperous, to have turned a deaf ear to every note of warning?

Some of the early Christian Emperors legislated against magic, but till the fourteenth century there was no systematic attempt to root out witchcraft.

This was too short to permit any adequate study of the subjects to be legislated upon.

On the whole he legislated as little as he could and proscribed as few as he could.

The effect, therefore, of the law as to those appointments would be to legislate into office men who had been already legislated out of office, taking from the President all agency in their appointment.

Cruelty, on the part of boys, is too prevalent; it is energy, enterprise, and high animal spirit, not legislated for on the part of parents and teachers, which descends to cruelty, first to animals, then to all which has life, that cannot defend itself.

So far the thing succeeded with respect to the sense of seeing; but there was yet another thing to be legislated for, and that was to prevent the children's attention being drawn off from the objects to which it was to be directed, viz.

The thoughtful framers of our Constitution legislated for our country as they found it.

He has offered constitutions for the New World, and legislated for future times.

It no more occurred to Macaulay to question the benefaction of English education and the supremacy of England's commerce and Constitution than it occurred to him to question the contemptible inferiority of the race among whom he was living, and for whom he mainly legislated.

Instead of taking the ground, that the benefit of the whole Union was the sole object of a federal district, that it was designed to guard and promote the interests of all the states, and that it was to be legislated over for this endthe resolution proceeds upon an hypothesis totally the reverse.

Instead of taking the ground, that the benefit of the whole Union was the sole object of a federal district, and that it was to be legislated over for this endthe resolution proceeds upon an hypothesis totally the reverse.

Instead of taking the ground, that the benefit of the whole Union was the sole object of a federal district, that it was designed to guard and promote the interests of all the states, and that it was to be legislated over for this endthe resolution proceeds upon an hypothesis totally the reverse.

The principles upon which we legislated when removing the sugar duties is a mystery to me, unless I accept the solution, so degrading to the nation, "that humanity is a secondary consideration to £ s.d., and that justice goes for nothing.

" If such were not the principles on which we legislated, there never was a more complete failure.

Penn himself acquired a few slaves; and in the first quarter of the eighteenth century the assembly legislated much as New York was doing, though somewhat more mildly, for the fuller control of the negroes both slave and free.

To the argument that the empire was composed of parts mutually independent in legislation, it was replied that Parliament had legislated imperially ever since the empire's beginning, and that the colonial assemblies possessed only such powers as Parliament might allow.

'"[C] A distinguished European writer observes: "The Hindoos seem to have legislated with the greatest care and detail concerning women.

More than once has a practical answer been demanded to the question What is to be done by a State or States when, in their estimation, the National Government has transcended its powers and legislated in an unconstitutional manner?

Now this principle is cardinal, and so far as I know none of the States have legislated upon the subject, unless the limitation of the injunction writ be such legislation.

Down to the year 1820, Congress had legislated to keep Slavery out of the Territories; but at that disastrous era, a weak dread of civil convulsion led to the surrender of a single State (Missouri) to this evil,under a solemn stipulation and warrant, however, that it should never again be introduced north of a certain line.

It was not possible to make this genius plastic, in the aesthetic sense which legislated at Weimar.