He represented Aberdeenshire in the Parliament of Scotland of 1669 and in the following assemblies, during his first session strongly opposing the projected union of the two legislatures.

The legislatures of the following states rejected the amendment without ever subsequently ratifying it:

On June 14, the Connecticut Assembly instructed its delegates to propose independence, and the following day the legislatures of New Hampshire and Delaware authorized their delegates to declare independence.

Jackson had already been nominated by several state legislatures, following the pattern of 1824 and 1828, but his worry was that the various state parties would not unite on a vice-presidential nominee.

" Early the following year, Representative Robert E. Andrews, Democrat from New Jersey, introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to require that " when the legislatures of an additional three states ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the House of Representatives shall take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as a part of the Constitution.

In these legislatures, it is routine for members to cross party lines on a given vote, typically following the interests of their region or following other members of a borderline group within their party ( for instance, the conservative Blue Dog Democrats and centrist and socially liberal Main Street Republicans ).

In Canada, each of the legislatures follow a relatively standard protocol in relation to the ceremonial mace ; the speaker of the house normally enters following a mace-bearer ( normally the sergeant-at-arms ), who subsequently sets the mace on the clerks ' table to begin the sitting.

Most of these methods of amendment require the consent of various provincial legislatures, following the passage of an Act of the federal parliament.

In 1802, following actions by the legislatures of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company was incorporated.

As approved by the House of Representatives each time, the joint resolutions called for ratification by state legislatures — of which a minimum of 38 state legislative approvals would be required ( three-fourths of the 50 states ) within a period of seven years following its proposal by both houses of Congress.

Requiring the approvals of lawmakers in at least 38 of the 50 states, the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was ratified by the legislatures of only the following 16 states:

The following are lists of U. S. state and territory insignia as designated by tradition or by the respective state legislatures:

The Child Labor Amendment has been ratified by the legislatures of the following 28 states:

" Permit us, then, earnestly to recommend these articles to the immediate and dispassionate attention of the legislatures of the respective states.

Concurrently, the legislatures of the fifty states have passed innumerable comparable sets of laws.

Some states have fixed term legislatures, with no option of bringing forward elections ( e. g. Article II, Section 3, of the U. S. Constitution ).

The Acts joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland ( previously separate states, with separate legislatures but with the same monarch ) into a single Kingdom of Great Britain.

The states ' chief ministers are responsible to the legislatures in the same way the prime minister is responsible to parliament.

At least six states responded to the Resolutions by taking the position that the constitutionality of acts of Congress is a question for the federal courts, not the state legislatures.

Elections are held in Marxist-Leninist states for all positions within the legislative structure, municipal councils, national legislatures and presidencies.

Pleading in the courts of the individual states is covered by the rules of civil procedure either promulgated by the respective state Supreme Courts, or by statute by the respective legislatures.

At least 41 bills or resolutions were introduced into the state legislatures, with some states facing the issue repeatedly.

Muslim states using classical sharia: Saudi Arabia and some of the Gulf states do not have constitutions or legislatures.

Under the U. S. Constitution the President and Vice President are chosen by Electors, under a constitutional grant of authority delegated to the legislatures of the several states and the District of Columbia ( see Bush v. Gore ).

No new state, however, may be formed by joining multiple states, without the consent of all state legislatures concerned.

* by a national convention assembled at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states.

* the legislatures of three-fourths of the states ; or

If at least two-thirds of the legislatures of the states so request, Congress is required to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments.

After being officially proposed, a constitutional amendment must then be ratified by the legislatures of, or by conventions in, at least three-fourths of the states.

The issue of rescission became important again during the 1970s when the legislatures of four states adopted resolutions purporting to repeal their previous ratifications of the Equal Rights Amendment.

* During 2009, " state sovereignty resolutions " or " 10th Amendment Resolutions " were introduced in the legislatures of 37 states ; in seven states the resolutions passed ( Alaska, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Tennessee ).

* During 2010, resolutions were introduced or reintroduced into the legislatures of 21 states ; the resolution passed in seven states ( Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Utah, and Wyoming ).

On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward, proclaimed the amendment to have been ratified by the legislatures of 27 of the then 36 states.

On July 20, 1868, Secretary of State William H. Seward certified that the amendment had become part of the Constitution if the rescissions were ineffective, and presuming also that the later ratifications by states whose governments had been reconstituted superseded the initial rejection of the prior state legislatures.

Significant elements of English common law prior to 1776 still remain in effect in many jurisdictions in the United States, because they have never been rejected by American courts or legislatures.

Since 1994, proponents of the three-state strategy have promoted ratification resolutions in the legislatures of most of the 15 states that never ratified the ERA approved by Congress in 1972.

Though the several states have never held a national constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing amendments, the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified not by the state legislatures, but by state level conventions after it was passed by Congress, as described as an alternate method of ratification in Article V of the US Constitution.

* the Indian Rajya Sabha ( upper house of parliament ) is indirectly elected, largely by state legislatures ; Manmohan Singh was a member of the Rajya Sabha but chosen by the majority party in the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) as the Prime Minister ( 2004-); as such, Singh as Prime Minister had never won a direct or popular election ; introduced as a " technocrat "

The nationalist political parties, regional representatives elected by provincial legislatures, and appointed police, military, and functional representatives, who together held a majority of seats in the MPR, rejected proposals to amend the Constitution to include Shari ' a, and the measure never came to a formal vote.

Americans had never known anything but bicameral legislatures, both in Britain and in most state governments.

All felonies remain considered a serious crime, but concerns of proportionality ( i. e., that the punishment fit the crime ) have in modern times prompted legislatures to require or permit the imposition of less serious punishments, ranging from lesser terms of imprisonment to the substitution of a jail sentence or even the suspension of all incarceration contingent upon a defendant's successful completion of probation.

These legislatures brought in programs that are considered part of government's role now, but at the time were radical, such as universal public education.

Major portions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence have been adopted by most state legislatures and are considered canonical by American law schools.

In common parlance political and constitutional aspects ( e. g. giving citizens or their elected representatives more power in political decision-making, establishment of subnational political entities for decision making and making them politically accountable to local electorate which often entails constitutional or statutory reforms like providing for representation of the member states, the strengthening of legislatures, creation of local political units along with the encouragement of effective public interest groups and pluralistic political parties ) are considered crucial for federalism.

Many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent — consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant.

Unicameral legislatures typically exist in small and homogeneous unitary states, where a second chamber is considered unnecessary.

The double aspect doctrine recognizes that both Parliament and the provincial legislatures can adopt valid legislation on a single subject depending on the perspective from which the legislation is considered, that is, depending on the various aspects of the matter in question.

However, it is frequently used in legislatures and other bodies in which alternatives can be considered and amended in a process of deliberation until the final version of a proposal is adopted or rejected by majority rule.

The accord required approval from all ten of Canada's provincial legislatures to be passed into law ; Maloway supported the decision of fellow NDP MLA Elijah Harper to block the accord's passage through procedural tactics, and indicated that he considered taking a similar approach himself.

Many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent — consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant. The thought of a British army stationed permanently on American soil alarmed many colonists.

Many state legislatures have considered their own versions of the bill.

Many schools had such low enrollments, that the state legislatures considered closing them permanently.

At the Adelaide session held in March 1897, he was appointed a member of the constitutional committee, and when the draft constitution came to be considered by the various legislatures, he introduced the bill in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales on 5 May 1898.