#legislature

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate. ↗

— Max Baucus

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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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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

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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. ↗

— Tom Hayden

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature. ↗

— Nick Lampson

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The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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