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Example sentences for "make laws"

  • Therefore the very idea of a lawmaking government--a government that is to make laws of its own invention--is necessarily in direct and inevitable conflict with "our liberty.

  • I cannot delegate to A any right to make laws--that is, laws of his own invention--and compel Z to obey them.

  • I cannot delegate to another any right to make laws--that is, laws of his own invention--and compel a third person to obey them.

  • The servants of the Company had as yet received no authority from Parliament or the Crown to act as judges, or to make laws.

  • They are, however, under the immediate control of the executive, and have no power to make laws, or to initiate legislation in the legislative council of India.

  • But both these are very far from a power to make laws, and enforcing them with penalties, that may reach estate, liberty, limbs and life.

  • But Bishop Lindsey proveth the lawfulness of those holidays(818) from the power of the church to make laws in such matters.

  • The Constitution of Mississippi gives the General Assembly power to make laws "to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity.

  • When any power is given, its delegation necessarily involves authority to make laws to execute it.

  • When any power is given, it's delegation necessarily involves authority to make laws to execute it.

  • But this being granted, it is very different from the right to make laws in all cases whatever binding upon the Colonies, and especially for laying duties upon trade for the express purpose of raising a revenue.

  • The word of God speaks nothing of the king's absolute prerogative, to make laws as he will.

  • By one statute, it is declared that parliament can, of right, make laws to bind us in all cases whatsoever!

  • We may go further, and say, that it is impossible for any single legislature so fully to comprehend the circumstances of the different parts of a very extensive dominion as to make laws adapted to those circumstances.

  • It is true that many people who are great men because they go to Hartford to make laws for us once or twice in a year, would then be no greater than their neighbours, as much fewer representatives would be chosen.

  • Whether the Reason of Any Man Is Competent to Make Laws?

  • Therefore the reason of any man is competent to make laws.

  • Objection 1: It would seem that the reason of any man is competent to make laws.

  • To prove the Pope has Power to make Laws, he alledgeth many places; as first, Deut.

  • Feed my sheep;" which is not a Power to make Laws, but a command to Teach.

  • They had not in Commission to make Laws; but to obey, and teach obedience to Laws made; and consequently they could not make their Writings obligatory Canons, without the help of the Soveraign Civill Power.

  • If it is in the discretion of the State Legislatures to make laws to carry the declaration of the constitution into execution, they have the power of refusing, and may avoid the positive injunctions of the constitution.

  • Sir, it is the duty of the Legislature to make laws; your judges are to expound them.

  • The Powers of the Irish Parliament The Irish Parliament is given a general power to make laws for "the peace, order, and good government" of Ireland.

  • Government of Ireland" except the reserved services and such services as those in regard to which the Irish Parliament have no power to make laws.

  • The enumeration of matters in respect of which the Irish Parliament shall have no power to make laws is a little deceptive, inasmuch as many of the matters so enumerated would have been outside its power in any case.

  • The people have the power to make laws, therefore they also have the right to do so, and they do not hesitate to revolt if this right is tampered with.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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