"Every member of every northern legislature, " Webster said, "has sworn to support the constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

I think it can because to me, it seems that it's very similar to the process of electing representatives for legislature.

我认为是可以的，因为对我来说这非常类似于,选举立法代表的过程。

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No parliament, no legislature, however democratic its credentials, can legitimately violate our natural rights.

没有任何议会或立法机构，不管其宣称自己如何民主，能合理侵犯我们的自然权利。

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The new governor promised to enforce the laws of the pro-slavery legislature -- but only those laws which were constitutional.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Everybody else is now governed by this legislature.

其他每个人都受立法机关管辖着。

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Pierce wanted to run for re-election. Many northern Democrats,however, objected to his support of the pro-slavery legislature in Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

"The supreme power," By which Locke means the legislature, "Cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent, for the preservation of property being the end of government and that for which men enter into society, " it necessarily supposes and requires that people should have property."

最高权力“,这里洛克指的是立法机关，“未经本人同意，不能取去任何人财产的任何部分，因为，既然保护财产是政府的目的,也是人们加入社会的目的，这就必然假定而且要求人民应该享有财产权“

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Both became lawyers. They each served in the Illinois state legislature before serving one term in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

He would ask the New York legislature to show its support by electing him again to the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Bank offices would be permitted in any state where the state legislature did not immediately refuse permission.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

In fact, the program has won the support of his local representative in the state legislature.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Governor Schwarzenegger said California's finances were the main reason the Legislature changed the law.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

When he was just twenty-three years old, he was elected to the state legislature.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

For example, the state legislature in Mississippi said no black person could rent farmland.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

The Mormons then formed their own territorial government with a legislature and courts.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

As a result, almost every pro-slavery candidate was elected to the new legislature.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

So Reeder returned home and opened the first meeting of the territorial legislature.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The same thing happened when Kansas finally held an election for a legislature.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

He served in the Illinois state legislature and in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

No wonder the state legislature instead calls Indiana "The Crossroads of America."

VOA: special.2009.08.09

No wonder the state legislature instead calls Indiana the Crossroads of America.

VOA: special.2011.01.09

Pro-slavery settlers urged Reeder to hold immediate elections for a territorial legislature.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Patrick Henry was elected to the Virginia legislature in seventeen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Then they won a majority of seats in the territorial legislature.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

The state legislature agreed to open a convention on December seventeenth.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The pro-slavery legislature passed a bill calling for such a convention.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

In nineteen ten,he won election to the New York State Legislature.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

The Kansas legislature also sent a message to President Pierce.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

He refused to call a meeting of the state legislature.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The newly elected legislature chose him to be senator.

VOA: special.2009.06.11