Tom Malinowski

Congress has a constitutional right to help decide and limit how the country uses its military power. But to assert this right, the legislature must also live up to the responsibility that goes with it, with leaders who are willing to bear it and capable of doing so wisely.

Rod Parsley

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.

American Celebrity

Lucy McBath

As a young woman, I was always interested in lobbying. I thought to find a cause you're passionate about, to really work on behalf of that cause, work on lobbying your state legislatures or your federal legislatures, that was of interest to me.

American Politician

Kurt Schrader

I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right at the heart of the issue. Even when I was in the state legislature, the most important function we had was to pass the bloody budget.

Brian Sandoval

Nevada is a little different than most states. We only meet every other year in the legislature. So it's very important to have good relationships on both sides of the aisle... I have to have those relationships.

Sarah Palin

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

American Judge

Roy Cooper

When I was in the legislature, we worked to create a bipartisan plan to raise teacher pay to the national average.

Marco Rubio

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

Michel Temer

I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.

Brazilian Politician

Legislature specifically refers to a formal governing body with authority to formulate laws.

Government Role

Remember, a legislature is a collective group, not a single person or office.

Not Individuals

Legislature is used within the context of government and politics, rarely outside of it.

Political Context

 where they elect their legislatures differently and where they have many parties right they have a spectrum of smaller parties and those parties decide to make coalition's together to form governments it's a whole different way of doing things I don't have time to go

Why political...

 including the influence of wealth, and the emergence of professional politicians with different interests than their constituents. Could reviving election by lottery lead to more effective government through a more diverse and representative group of legislatures?

What did democracy...

 could somebody in massachusetts judge a presidential candidate from north carolina and even if they were informed direct popular election that will just mean the big states are going to elect the president others said let the state legislatures pick the president

Why the Electoral...

 In New Jersey, some women voted, a right later taken away. But in other states, the legislature picked the electors. At that time, many people thought democracy was one step away from mob rule and a decision this important should be left to wiser men.

The oddities of the...

 It failed partly because the courts are too passive, partly because the legislatures are corrupted, by which I don't mean that there's bribery operating to stop real change, but more the economy of influence that governs how Congress functions

Laws that choke...

 legislature were skeptical you know that was an interesting process because you know like with any community you've got people with varying ideas about our history and what's important you know should we be purchasing property in another state

Descendents of Cahokia PIPE...

 But who would choose him? Not the people, they were too liable to be misled as one framer worried. Not the legislature, that would lead to cabal and factions. Got electors, wise, informed men who have time to make a good decision.

Inventing the American...

 and said to the governors across the country, compete for it. Forty-eight governors competed, convincing 48 state legislatures to essentially raise standards for high schoolers so that they all take a college prep curriculum.

Jennifer Granholm: A...

 they were all about abstractions. They were things like, why is the largest city of a state rarely the capital? And you were supposed to think, well, the state legislature was rural-controlled, and they hated the big city,

Why our IQ levels are...

 before investing. Then we identify key leaders in the state to help us champion UPSTART as an option for unserved children. And together, we go to state legislatures to transition UPSTART from philanthropy