| At the state level, some of the legislatures are bicameral, patterned after the two houses of the national parliament. |
| Republican-dominated legislatures and election officials have adopted absurdly difficult registration rules. |
| Such a transformation realigns governments, legislatures, and armed forces to multinational collective security and collective defense. |
| But even here, the radical change began with federal courts taking major areas of public policy away from state legislatures. |
| States using an independent approach produced more than twice as many competitive races for state legislatures than did gerrymandered states. |
| The organization's lawyers are generally not allowed to influence rulemaking by administrative agencies or lawmaking by legislatures. |
