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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Politics of the Republic of China
		The Legislative Yuan building in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City (the view is blocked by the childrens hospital building of the National Taiwan University Hospital).
		Politics of the Republic of China takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is head of state and the premier (President of the Executive Yuan) is head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-the-Republic-of-China (1563 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: North Dakota Legislative Assembly
		The North Dakota Legislative Assembly is the legislative branch of the government of North Dakota.
		It consists of two legislative bodies, the North Dakota House of Representatives and the North Dakota Senate, as well as the Legislative Council and its support staff.
		North Dakota is bordered on the north by the Canadian Provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, on the west by Montana, on the south by South Dakota, and on the east, across the Red River of the North and the Bois de Sioux River, by Minnesota.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/North-Dakota-Legislative-Assembly (456 words)

	Voices for South Carolina's Children
		Legislation is defined as action by a legislative body, including the introduction, amendment, defeat, or repeal of Acts, bills, resolutions or similar items.
		Judicial, executive, and administrative bodies (such as school and zoning boards) are not legislative bodies, and their actions are not considered legislation.
		To be considered "self-defense," a communication must be with a legislative body regarding possible actions of that body that could affect the organization's existence, powers, duties, or tax-exempt status or the deductibility of contributions to the organization.
	www.scchildren.org /lobbying.asp (955 words)

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		Legislature is the law-making body; the executive executes or administers the law; and the judiciary interprets the law and enforces it by punishing its transgressors.
		And, the size of legislative body should be the same at all levels of administration, since the number of types of interests and opinions existing in a population is more or less same irrespective of its size.
		The legislative body in a unitary government is full-fledged and all-powerful at the centre but rudimentary with limited legislative powers at the state and lower levels.
	www.geocities.com /someidea2000/politicalreform.html (9462 words)

	Section-02 Information Management
		Upon approval of the legislative initiatives at the department level, recommended legislative initiatives will be presented to the Board of Corrections at the October board meeting for review and approval, prior to submission to the legislative body.
		Legislative sponsors and bill request numbers will be identified no later than the House and Senate December bill request deadline.
		Executive staff/legislative liaisons will ensure legislative authors are fully informed at the time of the bill request of the nature of the initiative and the reasons why this initiative is important to the department.
	www.doc.state.ok.us /Offtech/op020601.htm (969 words)

	LAWMAKING IN MASSACHUSETTS
		Legislation filed subsequent to the filing deadline would thus be subject to Joint Rule 12 and would require approval by the committees on Rules of the Two Branches.
		A request describing the nature of the proposed legislation and the objects sought by it, signed by the petitioner, and accompanied by a draft of the bill or resolve embodying the legislation proposed.
		Legislative act applying to a particular county, city, town or district, individual or group of individuals and not general in nature.
	www.state.ma.us /legis/lawmkng.htm (4061 words)

	Support for legislative institutions and processes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The seminar was attended by 90 participants including legislators from the chambers of deputies of Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay, Chilean deputies, local authorities, academics, representatives of interested NGOs, UPD delegates, and students.
		The first meeting of the Network of Legislative Leaders of the Americas, which was held on November 21-22, 1998, in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, was attended by national legislators from 30 of the Hemisphere’s nations.
		Its objectives were to strengthen the operational capacities of the legislative drafting offices in the Caribbean member states of the OAS by improving the knowledge and professional skills of technical staff in these offices.
	www.summit-americas.org /Democracy/Legislative.htm (834 words)

	The Advantages of Mason's Manual for Legislative Bodies
		The organization and powers of a public body cannot be changed by its members; any change must be made by the authority that created it-the people.
		A member representing a constituency in a state legislature is entitled to present a matter for consideration of the body without having the support of a second, unless by law or by rule a second is required.
		If legislators understand why something is done in a particular instance, they are better able to translate that knowledge to another similar but unrelated situations.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/legman/aBOUT/masons.htm (716 words)

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		The state 20 legislature or the legislative bodies of the counties acting in 21 concert, as the case may be, may approve or reject the cost items 22 submitted to them, as a whole.
		If the State Legislature or the 23 legislative body of any county rejects any of the cost items a HRD-10(99) Page 3 1130 H.B. 1 submitted to them, all cost items shall be returned for revision.
		Such adjustments 6 for officers and employees covered under chapter 77, except for 7 those covered by the excluded managerial compensation plan, shall 8 be subject to the approval or rejection as a whole by all 9 appropriate legislative bodies acting in concert.
	www.capitol.hawaii.gov /session1999/bills/HB1130_.htm (269 words)

	Advisory Board of Directors: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But it is not required that the legislator shall expressly pass upon all laws, and give the sanction of his seal, before they can have life or existence.
		It is the supreme law of the land, and is binding on all future legislative bodies, until it shall be altered by tho authority of the people, in the manner, provided for in the instrument itself, and if an act be passed contrary to the provisions of the Constitution, it is, ipso facto, void.
		Laws are frequently made by inferior legislative bodies which are authorized by the legislature; such are the municipal councils of cities or boroughs.
	www.balticbankinggroup.com /bbgdicionary/Sources%20Of%20The%20Law.htm (845 words)

	Indonesia - Legislative Bodies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The highest constitutional body is the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), which meets every five years in the year following the elections to the parliament--the House of People's Representatives (DPR).
		The principal legislative task of the MPR is to approve the Broad Outlines of State Policy, a document that theoretically establishes policy guidelines for the next five years.
		In 1992, in response to the perception that the MPR was no longer satisfied with a rubber-stamp role, Suharto declared that the 1993 MPR would have greater input into the initial stages of drafting the Broad Outlines of State Policy.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-6294.html (399 words)

	`Legislative Subpoenas' Give Cities An Unfair Head-Start in Lawsuits
		But if assessing the likelihood of a successful lawsuit is a valid legislative purpose that enables a city to prediscovery, then, to take one example, a motorist who negligently crashes into city property could be served with legislature subpoenas asking about the driver's financial assets, driving record and drinking habits.
		Courts are understandably reluctant to second-guess legislative bodies when they exercise their legislative powers, which includes the authority to subpoena information useful to legislators.
		But legislative bodies have never before been considered to have unlimited power to discover the private information of their future litigation opponents.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/13/ED108147.DTL (897 words)

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		And, if the laws enacted by the legislative bodies are in contrary to the laws promulgated by the Hluttaws at higher levels, only the stipulations contained in the laws of the higher levels must be observed.
		But exercising of the legislative power in accord with the Constitution should not be different from one another in different regions, and should not harm the equal rights the people are enjoying in the legal affairs.
		And, if the laws enacted by the legislative bodies, even they are assumed best for the respective regions, are contrary to the laws promulgated by the Hluttaws at higher levels, only the stipulations contained in the laws of the higher levels must be observed.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs3/Proc2005-02-25.html (1761 words)

	PRAYER AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS
		This is consistent with a broader tradition in America of prayer or invocation prior to meetings of various legislative bodies, including city councils, county boards, state legislatures, and the U.S. Congress, and before sessions of various courts.
		The seminal case in the area of prayer preceding meetings of legislative bodies, but not school boards per se, is Marsh v.
		Courts have likewise ruled that the effect of the prayer is primarily ceremonial, Id.; Marsa, 430 A.2d at 897; Bogen, 598 F.2d at 1113; and may be viewed as the individual belief of the person praying, rather than of the school board, Marsa, 430 A.2d at 897.
	www.clsnet.org /clrfPages/pubs/pubs_prayerSchBd.php (1275 words)

	Social Influence of Behavior
		A body of rules formulated by the church was designed to regulate human behavior with respect to religious matters.
		Statute law differs from common law in that it is legislation, or codes of law made by legislative bodies such as parliaments, congresses, and legislatures (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, 1994).
		So, while the ego is born, grows, and dies, in the same way as the body, the psyche itself, and especially the Self, is not under the same limitations.
	www.schuelers.com /psychology/HS813.htm (3949 words)

	national assembly - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [national assembly] name of a number of past and present constituent or legislative bodies.
		National assemblies framed the republican Weimar constitution of Germany in 1919 and the Bonn constitution for West Germany in 1948-49.
		For a list of some of the chief legislative bodies of the world, see legislature.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/n/natlasse.asp (411 words)

	The White House Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But, a large and important body of research by political scientists indicates that the presence of women in legislative bodies makes a significant difference not only in what gets discussed, but also in what kinds of legislation are advanced.
		Much of the early research on the impact of woman legislators was confined to analyses of state and local legislatures simply because there were insufficient numbers of women in the U.S. House or Senate to allow for any kind of exacting quantitative analysis.
		· Women legislators of both parties are more likely to advance "women's issues," define women's issues more broadly than men, put them at the top of their legislative agendas, and to take a leadership role in those issue areas.
	www.thewhitehouseproject.org /programs/Briefing_book_research_overview.htm (1168 words)

	Legislative Coalition of Virginia Nurses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Redmond invited the Alliance members to discuss their legislative issues and from there, the group determined that members would work together collectively to achieve common legislative goals.
		The purpose of the Coalition is to create and implement a legislative agenda for Virginia nurses, to educate Virginia nurses on legislative issues, and to promote inclusion of nurses in policy-making bodies such as boards and commissions.
		Meetings are focuses on developing the legislative agenda, determining legislative priorities, developing strategies for grassroots lobbying, discussing legislative initiatives related to health and health care for Virginians, and educating members on issues of concern to nursing and health care.
	www.virginianurses.com /coalition/index.htm (350 words)

	Small Business Notes - Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
		This industry comprises government establishments serving as legislative bodies and their advisory committees and commissions.
		This industry comprises government establishments serving as councils and boards of commissioners or supervisors and such bodies where the chief executive (e.g., county executive or city mayor) is a member of the legislative body (e.g., county or city council) itself.
		Government establishments primarily engaged in serving as legislative bodies and their advisory committees and commissions are classified in Industry 921120, Legislative bodies;
	www.smallbusinessnotes.com /businesses/naics/publicadmin/921.html (605 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		But perhaps it is not too much to say that no legislative body ever does pass laws without believing that they will accomplish a sane, rational, wise and justifiable purpose.
		If any act of Congress, or of the Legislature of a state, violates those constitutional provisions, it is unquestionably void; though, I admit, that as the authority to declare it void is of a delicate and awful nature, the Court will never resort to that authority, but in a clear and urgent case.
		Skrupa, 372 U.S. My Brothers HARLAN and WHITE to the contrary, "[w]e have returned to the original constitutional proposition that courts do not substitute their social and economic beliefs for the judgment of legislative bodies, who are elected to pass laws." Ferguson v.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=volpage&court=us&vol=381&page=503 (14300 words)

	Bookfinder: Congresses Senates & Legislative Bodies
		The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members--as evidenced by the battles over civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s--is legendary.
		And yet from time to time the majority in a legislative body has forced a change in the rules to control the rights of the minority.
		Until the early 1800s, it remained the insulated, legislatively reactive, and executive-friendly upper chamber the Framers intended.
	www.bookfinder.us /Nonfiction/Government/Congresses__Senates____Legislative_Bodies.html (1077 words)

	Legislative Affairs
		Under the direction of the Board of Trustees, this committee is responsible for the affairs of the Association involving various state legislative bodies.
		Maintain contact with various state legislative bodies to keep informed of actions that might affect member companies of the Association.
		After consultation with member companies and approval of the Board of Trustees, confer with state legislators to emphasize weaknesses of certain bills that affect members.
	www.ohiogasassoc.org /roster/legislative.htm (228 words)

	(March 2001) Plugged In, Tuning Up: Executive Summary
		To the degree that the implications of e-government on legislative bodies have been explored, much of the literature focuses on the U.S. Congress, to the exclusion of state legislatures.
		Though 75% of legislatures have some method of collecting information or allowing users to interact with the legislative body, nearly all states lack a clearly defined privacy policy on their site.
		As state legislative websites continue to become even more responsive to the needs of their citizenry, the mandate is clear: be visible, accessible, usable, and useful.
	www.ombwatch.org /npadv/2001/stlg/stlges.html (666 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		REPORT TITLE: Collective Bargaining DESCRIPTION: Amends the collective bargaining to clarify that all cost and noncost items are subject to further bargaining when cost items are rejected by a legislative body.
		The state 12 legislature or the legislative bodies of the counties acting in 13 concert, as the case may be, may approve or reject the cost items 14 submitted to them, as a whole.
		If the state legislature or the 15 legislative body of any county rejects any of the cost items 16 submitted to them, all cost items submitted as well as all 17 noncost items shall be returned to the parties for further 18 bargaining." 19 SECTION 2.
	www.capitol.hawaii.gov /session1999/bills/HB1478_.htm (164 words)

	Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
		For the third election in a row, state legislative Democrats picked up legislative seats on Election Night.
		During the 2003-2004 election cycle, Democrats moved 10 legislative chambers toward Democratic control despite Republican gains at other levels—the largest chamber control switch for either party since 1996.
		To become a member you must be a Democratic state legislative candidate, a member of a Democratic state legislative caucus, or a staff member or representative of a Democratic state legislative campaign.
	www.dlcc.org /login.php (449 words)

	Open Government Guide Front Page
		C. What bodies are covered by the law?
		Other bodies to which governmental or public functions are delegated.
		Only those between the public employees and the public body.
	www.rcfp.org /tapping/index.cgi?key=AL157 (516 words)

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