Sentences with phrase «elected houses of the legislature»

In order to change the state's constitution, the measure must be passed by two consecutively elected houses of the legislature, then go before voters, where polls show it would likely be approved.

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The upper house of the legislature is elected on an ethnic basis, similar to the presidency; each voter in the Federation can either vote for Croat or for Bosniak candidates, not for both; the Federation elects 10 members.

The allegation that policemen drafted to the House of Assembly complex to forestall the foretold violence stood akimbo while thugs laid siege on the legislature, brutalized Hon Friday Sani Makama, a duly elected lawmaker, and disrupted the activities of the Assembly should not be allowed to go unpunished.The National Assembly should also investigate the criminal act and take appropriate steps that would prevent the re-occurrence of such intimidating act in future.»

«That this House notes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v the United Kingdom in which it held that there had been no substantive debate by members of the legislature on the continued justification for maintaining a general restriction on the right of prisoners to vote; acknowledges the treaty obligations of the UK; is of the opinion that legislative decisions of this nature should be a matter for democratically - elected lawmakers; and supports the current situation in which no prisoner is able to vote except those imprisoned for contempt, default or on remand.»

Cuomo's office said Monday that instead of the typical annual address that brings both houses of the legislature and state elected officials together, Cuomo will deliver «regional» addresses during the second week of January.

He explained that he allowed the petition to sail through and that the state parliament under his watch elected to look into the petition not to gag Oloyede's freedom of expression in accordance with sections 128 and 129 of the Constitution, which empowered the legislature to investigate any public petition forwarded to the House.

The districts and the number of judges assigned to each on the effective date of this constitution are retained, subject to change by law enacted by two - thirds of the elected members of each house of the legislature.

Agnes Macphail was the first woman elected to the House of Commons (1921 — 40) and was one of the first two women elected to the Ontario legislature (1943 — 45, 1948 — 51).