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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. -- Earl Warren
Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools. -- David Souter
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical. -- Oliver Ellsworth
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room. -- John Dickinson
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans. -- John Gutfreund
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts. -- Robert Reich
Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers. -- Bill Dedman
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. -- Henry Knox
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government. -- Henry Knox
Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union. -- Barry Eichengreen
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights. -- Sandra Fluke
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress. -- Ken Thompson
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. -- Martin Van Buren
It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives. -- Sandra Fluke
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us. -- Gloria Allred
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. -- Arne Duncan
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. -- John Grisham
Do you think states' rights would have disappeared if state legislatures still elected our United States senators? Do you think our United States senators would be difficult to contact if they were named by our state legislatures? -- Rob Woodall
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns. -- Bernie Sanders
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility. -- Rick Perry
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. -- Walt Whitman
I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about. -- Anthony Weiner
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right. -- Bob Barr
I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world. -- Al Gore
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian. -- Gore Vidal
We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures. -- Steve Inskeep
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice. -- Abraham Lincoln
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones. -- Henry David Thoreau
Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually. -- Warren Farrell
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations. -- Diane Ravitch
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. -- Mark Twain
[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776. -- Gordon S. Wood
Democrats in state legislatures are at their lowest level since the 1920s. President Obama has a can't-miss strategy to save the party in 2016. He's leaving. -- Craig Ferguson
A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States. -- James Madison
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that -- John Warren Kindt
The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures. -- James Madison
Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's been devastating. And it's all Obama. -- Rush Limbaugh
Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's been devastating. And it's all Obama. -- Rush Limbaugh
I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures. -- John Cornyn
I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between a league or treaty and a constitution. -- James Madison
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families. -- Robert Simonds
The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas. -- Collin Peterson
We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures. -- Ralph Nader

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