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Legislatures observe and steer governing actions and usually have exclusive authority to amend the <a href="/wiki/Budget" title="Budget">budget</a> or budgets involved in the process. The most common names for national legislatures are "parliament" and "congress", although these terms have more specific meanings. </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legislature&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The way to secure <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=X4IEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA85">The New-York magazine; or, Literary repository</a>, p. 85.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a> and legislature of your <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar" title="B. R. Ambedkar">B. R. Ambedkar</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dedicatedwriters.com/quotes/keywords/legislature/1/.Famous">Quotations</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What I don't like is <a href="/wiki/Judges" title="Judges">judges</a> legislating from the bench. And as <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">president of the United States</a>, I will appoint justices who uphold the <a href="/wiki/Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution">Constitution</a> and who don't see themselves as a super legislature. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michele_Bachmann" title="Michele Bachmann">Michele Bachmann</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/">State Of The Union With Candy Crowley: Interview With Michele Bachmann; Interview with Herman Cain; Interview With Steve King</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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 <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">community</a>, is the true end of legislature. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=tvW02T4QWTMC&pg=PA17">Political Representation in the Later Middle Ages: Marsilius in Context</a>, p. 17.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Latter-Day Pamphlets</i> (1850), no. 5, p. 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Latter-Day Pamphlets</i> (1850), no. 6, p. 14–15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I may confess, however, that I do not feel quite like a fish out of water in a legislative assembly where <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> is spoken. I am a child of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a>. I was brought up in <a href="/wiki/Lord_Randolph_Churchill" title="Lord Randolph Churchill">my father</a>'s house to believe in <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>. "Trust the people." That was his message. I used to see him cheered at meetings and in the streets by crowds of <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">workingmen</a> way back in those <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">aristocratic</a> <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> days when as <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Disraeli</a> said "the world was for the few, and for the very few." Therefore I have been in full harmony all my life with the tides which have flowed on both sides of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic</a> against <a href="/wiki/Privilege" title="Privilege">privilege</a> and <a href="/wiki/Monopoly" title="Monopoly">monopoly</a> and I have steered confidently towards the <a href="/wiki/The_Gettysburg_Address" class="mw-redirect" title="The Gettysburg Address">Gettysburg</a> ideal of <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a> of the people, by the people, for the people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/churchill-address-to-congress.html">Address to Joint Session of the United States Congress</a>, 26 December 1941</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He [<a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a>] in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house "That they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good;… and that it was not fit they should sit as a parliament any longer, and desired them to go away." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a>, dissolving Parliament, April 20, 1653, as reported by Bulstrode Whitlocke; <i>Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England, from the Norman Conquest, in 1066, to the Year 1803</i> (1808), vol. 3, col. 1383. There is no official version of this speech because the journal entry was expunged by order of Parliament, January 7, 1659. The version most often quoted is that of Thomas Carlyle, who combined three original sources, including Whitlocke, to obtain an "authentic, moderately conceivable account": "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing lately…. Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God,—go!" Thomas Carlyle, <i>Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches</i> (1897), vol. 3, part 7, p. 34–35. On May 7, 1940, Leopold Amery quoted the Carlyle version (omitting "lately") in the House of Commons, urging Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to resign. Winston Churchill, <i>The Gathering Storm</i> (vol. 1 of <i>The Second World War</i>; 1948), p. 659. Senator George J. Mitchell quoted the Carlyle version on December 23, 1982; <i>Congressional Record</i>, vol. 128, no. 17, p. S16068 (daily ed.).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When a legislature undertakes to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proscribe" class="extiw" title="w:Proscribe">proscribe</a> the exercise of a <a href="/wiki/Citizen" class="mw-redirect" title="Citizen">citizen</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Rights" class="extiw" title="w:Constitutional Rights">constitutional rights</a> it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> is no law at all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Orville_Douglas" class="mw-redirect" title="William Orville Douglas">William Orville Douglas</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=2M28hcdcTnMC&pg=PA52">The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 1: The Odyssey of the ...</a>, p. 52.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I come to present the strong claims of suffering <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a>. I come to place before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_General_Court" class="extiw" title="w:Massachusetts General Court">Legislature of Massachusetts</a> the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Dix" class="extiw" title="w:Dorothea Dix">Dorothea Dix </a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=737&page=all">Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If the function of this <a href="/wiki/Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Court">Court</a> is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed <a href="/wiki/Judges" title="Judges">judges</a> should not have <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter" title="Felix Frankfurter">Felix Frankfurter</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=pdxLZ4JXge8C&pg=PA58">Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and ...</a>, p. 58.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A plural Legislature is as necessary to good <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">Government</a> as a single Executive. It is not enough that your Legislature should be numerous; it should also be divided. Numbers alone are not a sufficient Barrier against the Impulses of Passion, the Combinations of Interest, the Intrigues of Faction, the Haste of Folly, or the Spirit of Encroachment. One Division should watch over and controul the other, supply its Wants, correct its Blunders, and cross its Designs, should they be criminal or erroneous. Wisdom is the specific Quality of the Legislature, grows out of the Number of the Body, and is made up of the Portions of Sense and Knowledge which each Member brings to it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, "Queries and Remarks Respecting Alterations in the Constitution of Pennsylvania", in Albert H. Smith, ed., <i>The Writings of Benjamin Franklin</i> (1907, reprinted 1970), vol. 10, p. 55–56. This section of his "Queries and Remarks" is a rearrangement and slight rewording of a portion of an anonymous article, "Hints for the Members of the Convention", <i>Federal Gazette</i> (November 3, 1789), p. 2, which had been reprinted from the <i>Carlisle Gazette</i> (October 21, 1789).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Great <a href="/wiki/Constitutions" title="Constitutions">constitutional</a> provisions must be administered with caution. Some play must be allowed for the joints of the machine, and it must be remembered that legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.</a>, <i>Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. May</i>, 194 U.S. 270 (1904).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now and then an <a href="/wiki/Innocent" class="mw-redirect" title="Innocent">innocent</a> man is sent to the legislature. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kin_Hubbard" title="Kin Hubbard">Kin Hubbard</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=OAFlZfIybW8C&pg=PA52">Marching To Zion</a>, p. 52.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Woe to those who make unjust laws,</li></ul> <dl><dd>to those who issue oppressive decrees,</dd> <dd>to deprive the poor of their rights</dd> <dd>and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,</dd> <dd>making widows their prey</dd> <dd>and robbing the fatherless.</dd> <dd>What will you do on the day of reckoning,</dd> <dd>when disaster comes from afar?</dd> <dd>To whom will you run for help?</dd> <dd>Where will you leave your riches? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaiah" title="Isaiah">Isaiah</a> 10:1-3 <a href="/wiki/New_International_Version" title="New International Version">NIV</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>No one should negotiate their <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a>. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson" class="extiw" title="w:Jesse Jackson">Rev. Jesse Jackson</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=bdTko5oHTd4C&pg=PA108">Words of Wisdom</a>, p. 108.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I served with General Washington in the Legislature of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>... and... with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=0eEaAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA16">Littell's Saturday Magazine: Or, Spirit of the Magazines and ..., Volumes 1-2</a>, p. 16</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diagram_of_the_Federal_Government_and_American_Union_edit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Diagram_of_the_Federal_Government_and_American_Union_edit.jpg/220px-Diagram_of_the_Federal_Government_and_American_Union_edit.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Diagram_of_the_Federal_Government_and_American_Union_edit.jpg/330px-Diagram_of_the_Federal_Government_and_American_Union_edit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Diagram_of_the_Federal_Government_and_American_Union_edit.jpg/440px-Diagram_of_the_Federal_Government_and_American_Union_edit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4698" data-file-height="3660" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>:In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mind" class="extiw" title="w:Human mind">human mind</a> has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare, that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemplation" class="extiw" title="w:Contemplation">contemplate</a> with sovereign <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverence" class="extiw" title="w:Reverence">reverence</a> that act of the whole <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_people" class="extiw" title="w:American people">American people</a> which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" class="extiw" title="w:Separation of church and state">separation</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ILW96uvhkqYC&pg=PA213">Religious Education in Public Schools: Study of Comparative Law</a>, p. 213.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I like the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> given the Legislature to levy <a href="/wiki/Taxes" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxes">taxes</a>, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8d13JFb-RvwC&pg=PA316">Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State, Volume 1; Volume 6</a>, p. 316.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a> at length erected, after so many ages, during which the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mind" class="extiw" title="w:Human mind">human mind</a> has been held in vassalage by <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">kings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Priest" title="Priest">priests</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobles</a>; and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare, that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1F3fPa1LWVQC&pg=PA162">Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson:</a>, in p. 162.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We're in the hands of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_legislature_(United_States)" class="extiw" title="w:State legislature (United States)">state legislature</a> and <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Koch" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Koch">Edward Koch</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=k-3LjoLl8H4C&pg=PT127">449 Stupid Things Democrats Have Said</a>, p. 127.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Mackintosh" title="James Mackintosh">James Mackintosh</a>, Vindiciae Gallicae, section 1, p. 14 (1838). Originally published in 1791. The phrase "a wise and masterly inactivity" was used in America by Representative John Randolph of Roanoke: "We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all—especially for young physicians—we ought to throw in no medicine at all—to abstain—to observe a wise and masterly inactivity." <i>Register of Debates in Congress</i> (January 25, 1828), vol. 4, col. 1170. The phrase was mostly associated, however, with John C. Calhoun, who used it during the nullification crisis and later during the Oregon controversy in 1843. While vice president, Calhoun spoke to the people of South Carolina by addressing the legislature at the close of the session of 1831: "If the Government should be taught thereby, that the highest wisdom of a State is, 'a wise and masterly inactivity,'—an invaluable blessing will be conferred". <i>The Works of John C. Calhoun</i> (1859), vol. 6, p. 143. See Hans Sperber and Travis Trittschuh, <i>American Political Terms</i> (1962), p. 263–64.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.</li></ul> <dl><dd>In the absence of these safeguards the phrase '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_before_the_law" class="extiw" title="w:Equality before the law">equality before the law</a>', in so far as it is intended to apply to us, is meaningless and misleading.<b> All the rights and privileges to which I have referred are monopolised by <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">whites</a>, and we enjoy none of them. The white man makes all the laws, he drags us before his courts and accuses us, and he sits in judgement over us.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>, Court statement responding to charges of inciting persons to strike illegally, and of leaving the country without a valid <a href="/wiki/Passport" title="Passport">passport</a> (1962), in <i>Law and Morality: Readings in Legal Philosophy</i>, p. 564</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle—a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game…. If the right pressure could be applied to him he would be cheerfully in favor of <a href="/wiki/Chiropractic" title="Chiropractic">chiropractic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">astrology</a> or cannibalism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a>, "The Library," <i>The American Mercury</i> (May 1930), p. 123. This view of Mencken's comes from his book review of <i>The Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes</i> (1930).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All (zoos) actually offer to the public in return for the <a href="/wiki/Taxes" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxes">taxes</a> spent upon them is a form of idle and witless <a href="/wiki/Amusement" title="Amusement">amusement</a>, compared to which a visit to a <a href="/wiki/Penitentiary" class="mw-redirect" title="Penitentiary">penitentiary</a>, or even to a State legislature in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_session" class="extiw" title="w:Legislative session">session</a>, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Louis_Mencken" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Louis Mencken">Henry Louis Mencken</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=2Q19hMwsNgYC&pg=PA365">Mencken Chrestomathy</a>, p. 365.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sleep" title="Sleep">Sleep</a> is perverse as human <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desired</a>, it loiters <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ogden_Nash" title="Ogden Nash">Ogden Nash</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=RMGwAAAAIAAJ">The selected verse of Ogden Nash</a>, p. 218.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To speak of <a href="/wiki/Morals" class="mw-redirect" title="Morals">morals</a> in <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> is to speak of legislature in <a href="/wiki/Sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex">sex</a>. Art is the sex of the imagination. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jean_Nathan" class="extiw" title="w:George Jean Nathan">George Jean Nathan</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=x0wfMwy1OSQC&pg=PA28">Quotes about Arts and Artists</a>, p. 28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Average Americans have little or no influence over the making of U.S. government policy. ... Wealthy Americans wield a lot of influence. By investing money in politics, they can turn economic power into political power. <ul><li>Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens, <i>Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Press" class="extiw" title="w:University of Chicago Press">University of Chicago Press</a>: 2017), p. 90</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I don't think you can make a <a href="/wiki/Lawyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawyer">lawyer</a> <a href="/wiki/Honest" class="mw-redirect" title="Honest">honest</a> by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a>. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Will_Rogers" title="Will Rogers">Will Rogers</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=mJ7ge3HCRdsC&pg=PA39">Law and the Web of Society</a>, p. 39.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lawyers are apt to speak as though the legislature were omnipotent, as they do not require to go beyond its decisions. It is, of course, omnipotent in the sense that it can make whatever laws it pleases, inasmuch as a law means any rule which has been made by the legislature. But from the scientific point of view, the power of the legislature is of course strictly limited. It is limited, so to speak, both from within and from without; from within, because the legislature is the product of a certain social condition, and determined by whatever determines the society; and from without, because the power of imposing laws is dependent upon the instinct of subordination, which is itself limited. If a legislature decided that all blue-eyed babies should be murdered, the preservation of blue-eyed babies would be illegal; but legislators must go mad before they could pass such a law, and subjects be idiotic before they could submit to it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Stephen" title="Leslie Stephen">Leslie Stephen</a>, <i>The Science of Ethics</i> (1882), p. 145.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, <i>Annals</i>, Book III, 27</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. <ul><li>Saying quoted by Gideon J. Tucker, Surrogate, in 1866 report of the final accounting in the estate of A. B. <i>New York Surrogate Reports</i>, 1 Tucker (N. Y. Surr.) 249 (1866).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion" class="extiw" title="w:Public opinion">Public opinion</a> is <a href="/wiki/Strong" class="mw-redirect" title="Strong">stronger</a> than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments" class="extiw" title="w:Ten Commandments">ten commandments</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dudley_Warner" title="Charles Dudley Warner">Charles Dudley Warner</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=7ZCc7L5LR-kC&pg=PA161">How to Interpret History</a>, p. 161.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It makes not the smallest difference to the motives of the thrifty and industrious part of <a href="/wiki/Mankind" class="mw-redirect" title="Mankind">mankind</a> whether their fiscal oppressor be an Eastern despot, or a feudal baron, or a democratic legislature, and whether they are taxed for the benefit of a Co. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a>, In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=filPAAAAYAAJ">The Market World and Chronicle, Volume 7</a>, p. 354.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legislature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislators" title="Legislators">Legislators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legislature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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