In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.
Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.