7 sentences with “legislation”

By 133 BC, the Senate proposed legislation and could veto the consuls' legislation.

By 287 BCE, the Plebeian Assembly in Rome could also pass legislation with the weight of law.

Although it still wielded considerable power, the German-born Hanoverian royal line deferred to parliament in matters of legislation and taxation after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

The result was Europe's first constitutional monarchy: a government led by a king or queen, but in which legislation was controlled by a parliament and all citizens were accountable to the same set of laws.

In one fell swoop, Nazi laws and policies (in particular the entire edifice of anti-Semitic legislation) were imported into Austria, and there was a wave of looting as Catholic Austrians attacked their Jewish compatriots.

Green parties (the strongest of which is Germany's) are very supportive of environmental legislation and are the most hostile to free market deregulation of any political faction, but their electoral impact remains limited.

Ironically, however, individual socialists could still stand for election and campaign for socialism. Bismarck's response was typically pragmatic: he supported social legislation, including workers' pensions, in an attempt to prevent socialists from attracting new members and becoming even more militant.