Certainly, the administration has not been heavy-handed with its opponents, including those from the democratic camp in the elected legislature who were ousted on July 1st.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, especially the sort of representative democracy that has evolved in this country as we seek to combine elements of an autocratic monarchy with an elected legislature, is about far more than openness.
In a few years, the best of the young Democrats elected to the legislature in 1996 will be competing for, and perhaps winning, statewide races.
If we elected our national legislature nationally, totaling all the votes and then assigning each party a proportionate number of seats, senior Democrats could start ordering their brass "Mr. Chairman" nameplates now.
And it is surely not outrageous for Mr Chavez to want a new legislature elected in due course: despite their almost total lack of public support, the traditional parties hold around a third of the seats in the current Congress.
The democratically elected Congress or state legislature cannot sit down and bargain with government employee unions as equals.
John Magolego, a local vigilante boss, was elected to the provincial legislature on a policy of curbing crime by whipping perpetrators' backsides.
Adriano Espaillat, who was the first Dominican-American elected to a state legislature.
In the year Britain and China signed their Joint Declaration on Hong Kong's future, not one member of the local legislature was elected.
Helen Gurley was born in rural Arkansas, and moved with her family to Little Rock when her father was elected to the state legislature.
Morrell, 60, a three-year veteran of U.S. Army Special Forces, received his undergraduate degree and law degree from Southern University before being elected to the state legislature in 1983.
Before its mandate expired at the end of January, the assembly named a 21-member committee to work as a mini-Congress, charged with law making until the new legislature is elected.
In these, the number of directly elected seats in the legislature will increase to half, giving Mr Tung's critics a chance of gaining a majority in the hitherto overwhelmingly pro-government council.
His courage paid off not only for the soldiers but himself: He was elected to the colonial legislature while the case was underway, and 4 years later would be sent to the Continental Congress.
In the monarch's place will be a directly elected president and a bicameral legislature.
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The same year, 1951, union representatives led by Mr Bird won all eight elected seats on the local legislature.
For example, both Correa and Morales rushed to call for a constituent assembly which basically means to dismantle the current legislative power in favor of a popularly elected assembly which would elect a new legislature which will end up being nothing but an extension of the executive power.
But I think his point about Congress was simply that the Supreme Court, since the New Deal, has deferred to the legislature, those who are elected by people around the country to write laws for them, and in this matter, on matters of national economic importance, to pass laws that regulate the economy and regulate areas of the economy like our health care market.
This was the case in Minnesota in 2010, where a big-spending Democrat was elected governor along with a low-tax Republican legislature.
One of his main aims is to reduce the clashes between the executive and a powerful but fragmented legislature that has seen the past three elected presidents fail to finish their term.
Getting money from the legislature has not been easy, even for the newly elected Mr Obama.
Our state continues to elect - we have two state - two U.S. senators who are Democrats, most of our locally elected officials, all of our - the majority of our state legislature are Democrats, and yet Huckabee did manage to get things accomplished with them when they found common ground on issues.
Correa faced resistance from the national legislature, which was dissolved in late November by the newly elected constitutional assembly--62% of whose members belong to Correa's party.
Miller has the official backing of more than 100 state and local elected officials and the unofficial backing of his party's caucus in the state Legislature.
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It was sweet vindication for the territory's liberal camp, which had been squeezed out of the legislature when Sino-British squabbling led Beijing to scrap the old, elected council.
The number of Latino Republicans in the state legislature has risen from one to four, and the Republican caucus in the Assembly has elected a Latino, Robert Pacheco, as its new leader.
Since then, aside from one Austrian bodybuilder, the Republican Party has not elected a single individual to any state-wide office or held a majority in either house of the legislature.
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