The Justice's elaborate examination of the legislative history of the provision in question suggests that Congress' purpose was merely to make unions suable.

A coalition of 96 scientific and educational organizations signed a letter to this effect to the conference committee, urging that the amendment be stricken from the final bill, which it was, but intelligent design supporters on the conference committee preserved it in the bill's legislative history.

While the amendment did not become law, a version of it appears in the Conference Report as an explanatory text about the legislative history and purposes of the bill.

At Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader :: The legislative history of the Sherman Act, as well as the decisions of this Court interpreting it, show that it was not aimed at policing interstate transportation or movement of goods and property.

The Johnson Administration submitted eighty-seven bills to Congress, and Johnson signed eighty-four, or 96 %, arguably the most successful legislative agenda in U. S. Congressional history.

With the completion of the new legislative council building in Jalan Mabohai, the Lapau will soon become a symbol of the sultanate's constitutional history.

The textbook issue was raised in November 2004, when a group of lawmakers, legislative candidates and supporters of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union ( TSU ) urged the ROC Ministry of Education to publish Taiwan-centric history and geography textbooks for school children as part of the Taiwanization campaign.

Studies of the legislative history of the Act indicate that the Gerald Ford administration secured the regulatory provisions only by threatening a veto of any act containing financial assistance for railroads but no reform of the regulatory system.

" court is to apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision, unless doing so would result in manifest injustice, or there is statutory direction or some legislative history to the contrary.

East Syracuse played another role in making the world a little bit smaller in 1996, when Village Trustee Jason M Rhoades, a twenty year old college student and management intern at NYNEX ( now Verizon ), made history by being the first legislator in the world to participate in a legislative meeting by telecom from a business trip in Massachusetts.

After describing the legislative history of the 1933 Banking Act, this article deals with the narrow meaning of the Glass – Steagall Act as the four provisions of the 1933 Banking Act separating commercial and investment banking.

During the AFL's early history, when the federation remained as apolitical as possible, state feds were the legislative dynamos — lobbying for workers ' compensation, unemployment insurance, child labor laws and the minimum wage.

Thus, as Justice William Rehnquist explained in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, “ The prohibition against discrimination based on sex was added to Title VII at the last minute on the floor of the House of Representatives ... the bill quickly passed as amended, and we are left with little legislative history to guide us in interpreting the Act ’ s prohibition against discrimination based on ‘ sex .’”

* Presidency book excerpt, the legislative history of this bill as it became an Act.

Throughout history, monarchies have been abolished, either through revolutions, legislative reforms, coups d ' état, or wars.

Summing up his career in the Senate, Ronald Reagan called him a " legend " and " one of the most skillful legislators, compromisers and legislative strategists in history.

Congress, in the legislative history, intended to create a rebuttable presumption of reasonableness, or safe harbor.

After a history of procedural wrangling, and sustained lobbying and publicity efforts from both sides, the Directive, which had largely been supported by the European Commission and most member-state governments in contrast with their national parliaments, was overwhelmingly rejected by the European Parliament on 6 July 2005, terminating the legislative procedure.

Smith later observed, " If I am to be remembered in history, it will not be because of legislative accomplishments, but for an act I took as a legislator in the U. S. Senate when on June 1, 1950, I spoke ... in condemnation of McCarthyism, when the junior Senator from Wisconsin had the Senate paralyzed with fear that he would purge any Senator who disagreed with him.

Under his leadership, the new Congress enacted one of the most notable legislative programs in American history.

The national parks of England and Wales have a distinctive legislative framework and history.

* Plain writing legislative history, Irwin Berent, Plain Writing Association

Contrary to de Gaulle's fears, his party won the greatest victory in French parliamentary history in the legislative election held in June, taking 353 of 486 seats versus the Communists ' 34 and the Socialists ' 57.

Installed as President of the National Assembly in 1988 ( at 41 years of age, the equal youngest in the history of the lower house ), he succeeded finally in becoming First Secretary of the party in 1992, but resigned after the Socialist disaster of the 1993 legislative election.

Not only did he personally report the legislative assembly debates in its columns, he also published provincial literature and his own travel writings, using the paper as a means for educating the people of Nova Scotia, and himself.

In the past twenty years he chiefly researched on the topic of history of Croatian grammar, philology, early Croatian Middle Ages, engaging in extensive synthetic research of the key periods of history of Croatian literature and the reconstruction of Proto-Slavic ceremonial texts, sacral poetry of mythological content, and legislative literature.

Minister Milo stated that the Agreement on educational cooperation is very significant and presents a legislative frame for exchange of staff and literature ( for more information go to the Summit's official site at www. seecp. gov. mk ).

The expressions are generally used in the context of proposals for legislative improvements, especially in the academic literature, both in the Anglo-American and in the continental legal systems.

The Act was the first legislative step in the creation of an enduring national institution that provides universal free access to information and literature, and was indicative of the moral, social and educative concerns of the time.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

and also that they may have 5 legislative days in which to extend their remarks.

The problem in the policy officer's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors -- political, military, economic, financial, legal, legislative, procedural, administrative -- to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control.

Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.

Let us take a set of circumstances in which I happen to be interested on the legislative side and in which I think every one of us might naturally make such a statement.

It is distinguished from judicial review, which refers to the court's overriding constitutional or statutory right to determine if a legislative act or administrative decision is defective for jurisdictional or other reasons ( which may vary by jurisdiction ).

The opposition did participate in the following year's legislative elections, in which the ODP / MT won a majority of seats.

The 1997 legislative elections, which international observers pronounced to be substantially free, fair, and transparent, resulted in a large CDP majority — 101 to 111 seats.

The conclusions of the imperial premiers conference of 1926 were restated by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931, by which the British parliament renounced any legislative authority over dominion affairs, except as specifically provided in law.

The country has a multi-party system in which many of its legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of and precedents set by Great Britain's Westminster Parliament.

Common law systems place great weight on court decisions, which are considered " law " with the same force of law as statutes — for nearly a millennium, common law courts have had the authority to make law where no legislative statute exists, and statutes mean what courts interpret them to mean.

Legislation must conform to a theory of legitimacy, which describes the circumstances under which a particular person or group is entitled to make law, and a theory of legislative justice, which describes the law they are entitled or obliged to make.

The development of the Council has been characterised by the rise in power of the Parliament, with which the Council has had to share its legislative powers.

The vast majority of laws are now subject to the ordinary legislative procedure, which works on the principle that consent from both the Council and Parliament are required before a law may be adopted.

The EU's budget ( which is around 116. 4 billion euro ) is subject to a form of the ordinary legislative procedure with a single reading giving Parliament power over the entire budget ( prior to 2009, its influence was limited to certain areas ) on an equal footing to the Council.

The 1819 State House is the oldest capitol in the nation in which the state's legislative branches meet in their original chambers.

Cromwell saw Barebone's Parliament as a temporary legislative body which he hoped would produce reforms and develop a constitution for the Commonwealth.

He likewise proposed legislative intervention into the terms of private bargains, to " provide against contracts being made which, from the helplessness of one of the parties to them, instead of being a security for freedom, become an instrument of disguised repression.

In 1863, the college reopened for its third time and was reorganized by another legislative act, which also added the word university into the school's name, changed to " The Governors of Dalhousie College and University.

On 16 June, Dewar set out the legislative programme for the Executive which included: an Education bill to improve standards in Scottish schools ; land reform to give right of access to the countryside, a bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure ; and a bill to establish National Parks in Scotland.