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Legislative bodies and interest groups sometimes rationalize the criminalization of consensual activity because they feel it offends cultural norms, or because one of the parties to the activity is considered a " victim " despite their informed consent .< ref > See Chapter 5 of Dennis J. Baker, The Right Not to be Criminalized: Demarcating Criminal Law's Authority ( Ashgate, 2011 < http :// www. ashgate. com / isbn / 9781409427650 ></ ref >
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Legislative and bodies
Small municipalities usually have only one urban district, which contains the city itself, consisting of the seat of the local government, where the municipality's prefeitura and câmara de vereadores ( City Hall and City Council, respectively, the Executive and Legislative local bodies ) are located.
* The Archives of Maryland extensive site on Maryland's various Legislative bodies.
In 1893 the two bodies were amalgamated into a unicameral legislature and became known as the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.
These two bodies were amalgamated in 1893 to create one Legislative Assembly consisting of 30 members elected from 15 different constituencies.
Unlike regional legislative bodies – Legislative Assemblies and City Councils -, the Congress is bicameral, composed of the Federal Senate ( the upper house ) and the Chamber of Deputies ( the lower house ).
Statutes are written laws enacted by the Singapore Parliament, as well as by other bodies such as the British Parliament, Governor-General of India in Council and Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements which had power to pass laws for Singapore in the past.
As a member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly Mr. Craitor has advocated for a Transparent and Open Government Policy for public bodies, the right of GrandParents to have reasonable access to their grand children and right of the public to access to shoreline beaches along the Great Lake coastline.
Legislative bodies can have one or more pro tempore for the presiding officer.
Legislative bodies themselves may try to influence or assist the courts in interpreting their laws by placing into the legislation itself statements to that effect.
While there was a Council of Advice, which was later replaced by a Council of Government and finally by an Executive and Legislative Council, these were purely advisory bodies and had no elected representation.
In 1949 the merger of Travancore and Cochin, formed the first Legislative Assembly composed of 178 members of the Legislative bodies of Travancore and Cochin.
* Bezawada Papi Reddy, son of B. Ramachandra Reddy who had the unique distinction of being a member of all the legislature bodies namely AP Legislative council, AP Legislative Assembly, Rajya Sabha and Loksabha is from the same town
Legislative and interest
But when the new constitution was passed in April 1935, it included the restrictive franchise demanded by the appointed majority of the Legislative Council, which had no interest in furthering democracy.
The newspaper uncovered many political scandals, including a former member of the Legislative Council not reporting conflict of interest in 2000, a former Financial Secretary Antony Leung for tax evasion on a Lexus LS 430 which saved him HK $ 50, 000 ( USD $ 6, 400 ), and many others, leading to the convictions or forced resignations of those individuals.
Premier Taschereau resigned after his brother Antoine admitted to the Accounts Committee that he had deposited the interest on funds belonging to the Legislative Assembly into his personal bank account.
On the political side, he reorganized the Legislative Council, which had consisted of an unrepresentative selection of interest groups heavily favoring the European community, to include African representatives elected from districts throughout Uganda.
The paper suggested Legislative Council to create 24 seats with 12 seats from different professional interest groups including Urban Council, Regional Council, and District Council.
Also in Western Australia, the Legislative Council seats are divided by community of interest and geography, leading to significant malapportionment in favour of country areas, although the system of proportional representation in place lessens the impact in party terms.
He also rejected overtures from Neil Stanley Crawford to run for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a Progressive Conservative, commenting later that he had little interest in sitting as a backbencher after serving as mayor of Edmonton, and that Premier Peter Lougheed had not been prepared to promise him a cabinet position.
On 20 May 2005, with the official enactment of the Electoral Amendment and Repeal Act 2005 ( No. 1 of 2005 ), the State was split into 6 regions by community of interest, 3 metropolitan and 3 rural, each electing 6 members to the Legislative council.
On 20 May 2005, with the official enactment of the Electoral Amendment and Repeal Act 2005 ( No. 1 of 2005 ), the State was split into 6 regions by community of interest, 3 metropolitan and 3 rural, each electing 6 members to the Legislative council.
Scaddan became a keen unionist, and on 28 June 1904 he contested the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Ivanhoe, partly because he was having difficulty securing continuous employment, and partly also because of an interest in economic affairs.
This election initially generated little interest, as it was largely a procedural formality to elect a new National Assembly whose sole purpose would be to deal with the amendments, which were passed almost unanimously by the Legislative Yuan in August 2004.
Chattur Singh was a well known Ba resident, he was the President of the Ba branch of the Indian Association and his elder brother, Parmanand Singh, was one of the 3 Indians elected to the Legislative Council in 1929, Patel had angered the Muslim community because of his strong public stance against nomination ( The Muslims had asked for their own representative to be nominated ), Patel was a Gujarati whom the farmers saw as exploiters because of the high interest rate charged by the Gujarati merchants.
Legislative and groups
Representatives elected to represent Student Affairs groups and Academic Affairs comprise the Legislative Branch with a member of the Legislative Branch elected as Chair of the Assembly.
The country's new leaders represented the various ethnic groups of the population in the Ceylon Legislative Council on a communal basis.
* The Federation of Malaya Legislative Council comprised the High Commissioner as the Council President, 14 official and 50 unofficial members representing the Straits Settlements, business groups and all races.
In both the 1998 and 2000 Legislative Council ( LegCo ) elections, members of The Frontier won five seats in the geographical constituencies ( some of them run under the banner of other groups ):
While the Palestinian Authority makes no reservations within the Palestinian Legislative Council ( there were reserved seats for Christians and Samaritans in the electoral law for the Palestinian general election, 1996 ), certain positions in local government are guaranteed to certain minority groups, in order to retain particular traditional cultural influence and diversity.
* 1914-18: During World War I, Zaghloul and many members from the old Legislative Assembly form activist groups all over Egypt.
In a column filed with the Copley News Service Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and James Madison Scholar with the American Legislative Exchange Council, while conceding the Greenpeace had a right to advocate its beliefs, railed against non-profit groups having a tax-deductible 501c ( 3 ) entity that can transfer funds to a non-deductible 501 c ( 4 ) entity.
The Legislative Assembly was driven by two opposing groups.
These two groups won over 29 % of the vote, and voters elected a total of eight Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ) under these banners.
Since 1990s, scholars and experts are increasingly entrusted by the NPC Legislative Affairs Commission to form drafting groups to prepare the first draft of the basic laws ( this was the case for the Contract Law ( 1999 ), the Law of Rights in rem ( 2007 ), the Law of Tort Liability ( 2009 ) and the Law of the PRC on the Law Applicable to Foreign-related Civil Relations ( 2010 )).
* Legislative change so that five of the 11 Senators currently nominated by the Taoiseach would be drawn from minority groups in the Republic of Ireland.
More than half of Hong Kong's Legislative Council is made up of independents, or members whose political groups are represented by one sole member in the legislature.
Despite fierce opposition from church groups, on December 16, 2009, Hong Kong's Legislative Council passed a bill extending its Domestic Violence Ordinance to apply to same-sex couples.
Before 1966, all elective seats in the Legislative Council were allocated by ethnicity and elected by voters enrolled as members of specific population groups.
Legislative and sometimes
* The Legislative Council: essentially the rubber-stamp Parliament, it was made up of People Commissioners ( known elsewhere as MPs ), who were sometimes elected, as individual members of the party, and always on the party platform.
Modern democratic states with bicameral parliamentary systems are sometimes equipped with a senate, often distinguished from an ordinary parallel lower house, known variously as the " House of Representatives ", " House of Commons ", " Chamber of Deputies ", " National Assembly ", " Legislative Assembly ", or " House of Assembly ", by electoral rules.
Although sometimes referred to as a " parliament ", the Legislative Yuan, under Sun's political theory, is a branch of government, while only the National Assembly of the Republic of China ( now abolished ), with the power to amend the constitution and formerly to elect the President and Vice President, could be considered a parliament.
The Girondists ( in French: Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins ) were a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution.
Legislative acts and contracts sometimes use " shall " and " shall not " to express mandatory action and prohibition.
In 1837 he was appointed to the Legislative Council and while he sometimes supported reform he was generally a critic and opponent of responsible government and the introduction of party government.
Beginning on 10 August 1792, when the constitutional reign of Louis XVI was suspended by the Legislative Assembly, these priests, as well émigrés and their parents, had been expelled, deported, jailed, and sometimes murdered by radical revolutionary sans-culottes.
The Christian Democratic Party has generally had two ( sometimes three ) sitting Members in the Legislative Council ( MLCs ) at any one time.
The Palestinian Legislative Council, ( sometimes referred to as the Palestinian Parliament ) the legislature of the Palestinian Authority, is a unicameral body with 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza.
The Electoral district of Brown Hill-Ivanhoe ( sometimes styled Brownhill-Ivanhoe ) was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia.
Leverett George DeVeber ( sometimes spelled De Veber ) ( February 10, 1849 – July 9, 1925 ) was a Canadian politician who served as Member of the Legislative Assemblies of Alberta and the Northwest Territories, minister in the government of Alberta, and member of the Senate of Canada.
Richard Robson ( 15 March 1867 – 30 November 1928 ), sometimes referred to as Dick Robson, was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly who resigned in 1900 after making unsubstantiated allegations of corruption against the government of the day.
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