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unusual facts about legislative branch



2007 United States federal budget

The budget of the United States government for fiscal year 2007 was produced through a budget process involving both the legislative and executive branches of the federal government.

Forrest-Marbury House

Marbury's battle with President Thomas Jefferson over President John Adams's federal appointments resulted in the landmark 1803 U. S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison, written by Chief Justice John Marshall and decided against Marbury, that first established the right of judicial review of executive and legislative branch acts of government.

Government of the Northern Cape

The Northern Cape Provincial Legislature, situated in Kimberley, is the legislative branch of the provincial government.


see also

Common Council

Buffalo Common Council, the legislative branch of the Buffalo, NY City Government

District of Keewatin

The legislative branch of the government was a unicameral body, known as the Council of Keewatin.

Fourth branch of government

U.S. independent administrative government agencies, while technically part of the executive branch (or, in a few cases, the legislative branch) of government, are sometimes referred to as being part of the fourth branch.

Government of Pakistan

The legislative branch is known as the Parliament, a term for legislature inherited from the United Kingdom.

Irrigation Districts and Farm Loans Act

It was proposed and discussed in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1921 to March 4, 1923, during the Sixty-seventh United States Congress meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, during the first two years of Warren Harding's presidency.

Mike Synar

In the 1986 Supreme Court decision Bowsher v. Synar, the Court struck down the law stating, in part, that the provision granting executive power to Comptroller General Charles Arthur Bowsher, a legislative branch officer, did "violate the Constitution's command that Congress play no direct role in the execution of the laws."