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The chanting outside the government legislature intensified when the politicians came out to address the protesters.

The students staged a protest march in front of the Legislature in anger at rising tuition fees.

Members of all the political parties are meeting at the Legislature in an effort to find a solution to the crisis.

Police arrested over 50 rioters at a demonstration at the State Legislature.

Thus, instead of the Clergy forming, as they did in France, a distinct Estate of the Legislature, we got a Parliament of two Houses, Lords and Commons, attended by a kind of ecclesiastical shadow of the Parliament in the shape of the two Houses of the ecclesiastical Convocation.

A whole code of political maxims, universally acknowledged in theory, universally carried out in practice, has grown up, without leaving among the formal acts of our legislature any trace of the steps by which it grew.

It had not been found out that Parliament itself has a power, now practically the highest of its powers, in which it acts neither as a legislature nor as a court of justice, but in which it pronounces sentences which have none the less practical force because they carry with them none of the legal consequences of death, bonds, banishment, or confiscation.

In England or France the question between one or two Chambers in the Legislature is simply a question in which of the two ways the Legislature is likely to do its work best.

294) remarks that “there is much reason to believe that the consciousness of this defect in his parliamentary title put James on magnifying, still more than from his natural temper he was prone to do, the inherent rights of primogenitory succession, as something indefeasible by the legislature; a doctrine which, however it might suit the schools of divinity, was in diametrical opposition to our statutes.

" On the 22nd January 1799 one member of the Irish House of Commons took his bribe in the brief interval between his speech for, and his vote against a resolution affirming the right of the Irish nation[24] to an independent Legislature.

The country, in fact, too often had to witness the ridiculous spectacle of a Legislature solemnly filling the Statute Book with elaborate enactments, whilst the constables whose duty it was to see the law enforced, were quietly going about their own business, following the plough, or minding the shop.

"[131] [133] All this time the legislature was mute: throughout the reign of Charles II.

Accordingly, at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of June, as many as 60,000 people assembled in St George's Fields to accompany Lord George Gordon in his attempt to intimidate the legislature.

The legislature was [268]all the more ready to acquiesce in this compromise, because the City, asking for no assistance from the Treasury, bore the whole expense connected with the improved constabulary out of its private revenues.

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