Which preposition to use with legislatures

of Occurrences 577%

Father was elected as a member of that body, and took an active part in organizing the first legislature of Kansas, under Governor Reeder, who, by the way, was a Free State man and a great friend of father's.

in Occurrences 104%

Sentences: The legislature in order to pass a measure regarding the public .

for Occurrences 47%

Few varieties of game are hunted more industriously than this, yet such is the fecundity of the species, that the Sportsman's Club has not as yet thought it necessary to petition the legislature for its protection.

at Occurrences 41%

He reports to the legislature at each session, through the governor, the condition and needs of the schools of the state.

of Occurrences 27%

For this fight at Summit Springs General Carr and his command were complimented not only in General Orders, but received a vote of thanks from the Legislatures of Nebraska and Coloradoas Tall Bull and his Indians had long been a terror to the border settlementsand the resolutions of thanks were elegantly engrossed and sent to General Carr.

on Occurrences 24%

The members also of this meeting petitioned their own legislature on this subject, both in 1783 and in 1786.]

from Occurrences 14%

So between the new constitutions, which exclude the legislatures from power, and the Referendum, by which the people overrule what they do, and the Initiative, by which the people legislate in their place, the legislative representatives who were formerly honored, are hampered, shorn of power, relieved of responsibility, discredited, and treated as unworthy of confidence.

with Occurrences 13%

* An Augean Job. PUNCHINELLO has telegraphed to Governor GEARY his approval of the "Sewage Utilization" bill at Harrisburg, on one condition: that the first piece of work be finished up by the members of the Pennsylvania Legislature with their own hands; that work to be, to make up into decent manure, deodorized and disinfected, all bills passed at the late session of their House and Senate.

to Occurrences 11%

An indemnity of a thousand millions was given by an obsequious legislature to the men who had emigrated during the Revolution,a generous thing to do, but a premium on cowardice and want of patriotism.

as Occurrences 9%

George W. Moore was associated with Dr. Foster in the publication of the Minnesotian prior to the consolidation, but when the offices separated it was stipulated that Mr. Moore should have the printing of the Journals of the two houses of the legislature as part payment of his share of the business of the late firm of Newson, Moore, Foster & Co., thus entirely severing his relations with the paper he helped to found.

by Occurrences 7%

This measure was of course bitterly opposed by the clerical and conservative party, but was ably supported in the legislature by the member from Turin,Count Camillo Cavour; and this great man now became one of the most prominent figures in the drama played by Italian patriots, since it was to his sagacious statesmanship and devoted labors that their efforts were crowned with final success.

than Occurrences 7%

The grievance, sir, for which this bill proposes a remedy, is so generally known, and so universally lamented, that, I believe, there is not any thing more worthy of the attention of the legislature than an inquiry into the cause of it, and the proper method of redressing it.

during Occurrences 6%

There was a bill introduced in the legislature during the last session to re-enact the "black laws," but it was hopelessly defeated; the member who introduced it evidently mistook his latitude; he ought to be a member of the Georgia legislature.

within Occurrences 6%

Since, then, Congress is the sole legislature within the District, and since its power is limited only by the checks common to all legislatures, it follows that what the law-making power is intrinsically competent to do any where, Congress is competent to do in the District of Columbia.

against Occurrences 5%

The Lutheran leaves the free will whining with a broken back in the ditch; and Dr. Priestley puts the poor animal out of his misery!But seriously, is it fair or even decent to appeal to the Legislature against the Methodists for holding the doctrine of the Atonement?

without Occurrences 5%

Arkansas was admitted but the other day, with nothing that deserves to be called an effort to prevent italthough her Constitution attempts to perpetuate slavery, by forbidding the master to emancipate his bondmen without the consent of the Legislature, and the Legislature without the consent of the master.

into Occurrences 3%

Had the reformers of 1905 concentrated their energies upon the task of turning the new legislature into an adequate check upon the bureaucratic system, there is little doubt they would have succeeded.

for Occurrences 2%

It appears then, that if a new code of laws is indispensably necessary in our Colonies in order to secure a better treatment of the slaves there, we are not to look to the West Indian Legislatures for it.

in Occurrences 2%

* (Those which follow were passed by but one branch of the respective Legislatures in which they were introduced.)

under Occurrences 2%

I was in Hawaii when the offices of the first legislature under the American flag were campaigned for, after years of repression by the sugar planters' oligarchy, and I had heard the natives speak a score of times, and always with delight and wonder.

down Occurrences 1%

The sympathy of Ohio was rich in fair fruits of substantial aidfrom the hall of the State legislature down to the humble abode of noble-minded working menand associations of the friends of Hungary, spread through that powerful commonwealth, promise a permanent, noble protection to the cause I plead.

controul Occurrences 1%

Let the legislature controul this department instead of the college of physicians, who, as a body, can boast of as large an allowance of licensed ignorance as any corporate set of men in existence.

before Occurrences 1%

" A national executive was proposed, together with a national judiciary, and these two bodies were given authority "to examine every act of the national legislature before it shall operate and every act of a particular legislature before a negative thereon shall be final."

over Occurrences 1%

In 1789 an unfortunate quarrel sprang up between the two legislatures over the appointment of a Regent, rendered necessary by the temporary insanity of George III., and this difference was afterwards used as an argument in favour of a legislative Union.

above Occurrences 1%

Henry, therefore, by reducing those ancient customs of the realm to writing, and by collecting them in a body, endeavoured to prevent all future dispute with regard to them; and by passing so many ecclesiastical ordinances in a national and civil assembly, he fully established the superiority of the legislature above all papal decrees or spiritual canons, and gained a signal victory over the ecclesiastics.

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