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 never considered the proposed amendment:

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.

Jefferson and James Madison also secretly drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions denouncing the federal legislation, though state legislatures rejected these resolutions.

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.

The plan was submitted as a recommendation but was rejected by the legislatures of the individual seven colonies since it would remove some of their existing powers.

The amendment was rejected by three state legislatures:

The Rhode Island General Assembly was one of the thirteen colonial legislatures that rejected British rule in the American War of Independence.

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.

Although the act, on the part of state legislatures, of " rejected " a proposed constitutional amendment has no legal recognition, such action does have political ramifications.

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.

These appointments could later be confirmed or rejected by the provincial legislatures.

The Court found that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty in these cases because " most of the legislatures that have recently addressed the matter " have rejected the death penalty for these offenders, and the Court will generally defer to the judgments of those bodies.

* Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected a plan, endorsed by the Premiers of 8 of the nation's 10 provinces, that would have allowed individual provincial legislatures to reject constitutional changes, saying that it would turn Canada into a loose confederation.