In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral, John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ''!!

Palfrey petitioned the state legislature to waive the requirement.

Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.

Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.

He won election to the state legislature ; though he ran as a Whig, many Democrats favored him over a more powerful Whig opponent.

At that time, senators were elected by the state legislature.

The Whigs thought Andrew Johnson a dangerous prospect as a United States Senator, and made it a priority to prevent his election by the state legislature.

The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

Johnson returned home when his state legislature took up the issue of secession.

As of 2011, a bill has been proposed in the state legislature to end the prohibition on Sunday liquor sales.

Each State has a unicameral legislature with deputies who vote state laws.

In 1997, the state legislature created the Metropolitan Highway System and transferred responsibility for the Central Artery and Tunnel " CA / T " Project from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Massachusetts Governor's Office to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ).

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

For example, in the U. S. state of Massachusetts an article of incorporation approved by the local state legislature distinguishes a city government from a town.

This type of independence is limited in a democratic state ; in almost all cases the central bank is accountable at some level to government officials, either through a government minister or directly to a legislature.

Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary.

For example, in a unitary state, the constitution will vest ultimate authority in one central administration and legislature, and judiciary, though there is often a delegation of power or authority to local or municipal authorities.

The state's party bosses, however, rejected this compromise and the state legislature rejected the plan on three occasions in 1909 and 1910.

Although attempts to abolish slavery failed by narrow margins in the legislature, in practical terms, the state had mostly ended the practice.

The state legislature selected Ellensburg as the location for the then Normal School as a consolation prize.

The Republican-controlled legislature had created district boundaries designed to enhance their party's control over state and national offices, leading to some oddly shaped legislative districts.

However, in 1931, gambling was legalized throughout the state of Nevada, along with Las Vegas and Reno.

The southern third of the state, where the Las Vegas area is situated, is within the Mojave Desert.

The largest mountain range in the southern portion of the state is the Spring Mountain Range, just west of Las Vegas.

Because she was single, California law prevented her from adopting within the state so she arranged the adoption through an agency in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas () is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County.

Calabasas residents are zoned to schools in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, one of the highest ranked districts in the state.

* Because Arizona is a " neutral " state for the Mafia and with Kingman's proximity to Las Vegas, members and associates of various La Cosa Nostra organizations, including Chicago and New York, have reportedly made Kingman their home over the years, as well as other areas of Mohave County.

Malibu's beaches include Surfrider Beach, Zuma Beach, Malibu State Beach, Topanga State Beach, Point Dume State Beach and Dan Blocker Beach ; its local parks include Malibu Bluffs Park ( formerly Malibu Bluffs State Park ), Trancas Canyon Park, Las Flores Creek Park, and Legacy Park, with neighboring parks Malibu Creek State Park, Leo Carrillo State Beach and Park, Point Mugu State Park, and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, and neighboring state beach Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beach, that was once part of Old Malibu ( before Malibu became a city ), and better known as pristine beaches, El Pescador, La Piedra and El Matador.

Mesquite is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the Arizona state line and northeast of Las Vegas.

It is near the city of Las Vegas, and the fourth largest city in the state of Nevada.

In July 2011, The Las Vegas Review Journal reported that North Las Vegas appeared to be headed for state intervention, disincorporation and / or insolvency.

A budget balanced through personnel layoffs was passed in May, but judges reversed some of those pink slips, creating a financial emergency that could require the state to take over North Las Vegas ' finances.

The state has never taken over a government the size of North Las Vegas, which has a total budget of roughly half a billion dollars and a population of more than 215, 000.

North Las Vegas is currently experiencing an economic crisis as such that the state of Nevada is considering taking over the city's financial affairs.

It is located on the New Mexico – Texas state line in the Upper Mesilla Valley, and on Interstate 10, 27 miles south of Las Cruces and 21 miles north of El Paso, Texas.

In recent years, the influx of retirees from out of state has also increased Las Cruces ’ population.

The Acteal Massacre was a massacre of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic indigenous townspeople, including a number of children and pregnant women, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas (" The Bees "), in the small village of Acteal in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

In 1951, both Reno and Las Vegas had closed their red light districts as public nuisances, but brothels continued to exist throughout the state.

As of 2009, prostitution is illegal under state law in Clark County ( which contains Las Vegas ) and under county or municipal law in Washoe County ( which contains Reno ), Carson City ( an independent city ), Douglas County, and Lincoln County.

Thus the basic spatial structure of the Southwest can be seen as focused on the largest metropolitan areas in each state such as Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and El Paso.

Conflicting with this is the fact that the Kingston Lacy version represents the final state of Las Meninas, not the earlier state of the painting revealed by radiographs, suggesting that it was painted after the completed work, not before it.

The University of Nevada remained the only four-year academic institution in the state of Nevada until 1965, when the Nevada Southern campus ( now the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ) separated into its own university.