However, the contractor or vendor, or employee of the contractor or vendor, shall be deemed to be a lobbyist, if actively engaged in selling or marketing to an official in the executive branch or an official in the legislative branch whose duty it is to vote for, let out, overlook, or in any manner to superintend any work or any contract so marketed or sold.
Gov't Code Ann. Does not apply to a member of the judicial, legislative, or executive branch of state government or an officer or employee of a political subdivision of the state.
Also does not apply to quasi-governmental agencies, subject to exceptions. Utah Code Ann. Influencing or attempting to influence executive or legislative action through oral or written communication with an executive or legislative official; or 2. Solicitation of others to influence an executive or legislative official. Requests for appointments, information on the status of pending executive and legislative actions, or other ministerial contacts if there is no attempt to influence executive or legislative actions; 2.
Responses to published notices soliciting public comment submitted to the public official designated in the notice to receive the responses; 3. The solicitation of an association by its members to influence legislative or executive action; or 4. Communications between an association and its members and communications between a principal and its lobbyists. An individual who is employed and receives payments, or who contracts for economic consideration, including reimbursement for reasonable travel and living expenses, for the purpose of lobbying; 2.
An individual who represents an organization, association, or other group for the purpose of lobbying; or 3.
A local government employee who lobbies. Some exceptions apply to lobbyist registration requirements, located at Va. If an individual's duties on behalf of a principal are not limited exclusively to lobbying, the individual is a lobbyist only if he or she makes lobbying communications on each of at least 5 days within a reporting period.
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Unable to locate any statute defining "lobbyist" or "lobbying. The exemptions contained in this subparagraph and in subparagraph ii are intended to permit and encourage citizens of this state to exercise their constitutional rights to assemble in a peaceable manner, consult for the common good, instruct their representatives, and apply for a redress of grievances. Accordingly, such persons may lobby without incurring any registration or reporting obligation under this article.
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Ensure the predictability of tax policies and their administration, thus reducing corporate risks. Implement environmental tax designs that support competitiveness like consumption-based carbon taxes, border tax adjustment or output-based tax rebates. Those ideas of the equality of mankind; that governments are based on the consent of the governed; that it is the fundamental obligation of a government to serve the needs of the people it governs; and, indeed, that it is the right of the people to abolish a government that does not serve those ends, has formed the basis of American government and society from that time forward.
These state constitutions were bold revolutionary experiments, and in many cases, because they were the first time state political leaders sought to write down the way their governments should function, they were far from perfect.
But they were an important step forward in the notion that the purpose of governments was to serve the public interest while at the same time protecting individual liberty. Moreover, the Articles of Confederation failed to provide for a chief executive capable of giving energy and focus to the new central government. The fifty-five delegates who met in Philadelphia between May 25 and September 17, , would not only reject the Articles of Confederation altogether, but they would produce the first written constitution for any nation in the history of the world.
Those gathered in the Assembly Room of the Pennsylvania State House during the summer of faced a formidable task. Yet somehow, in the space of slightly less than four months, they managed to pull off an extraordinary accomplishment.
The Constitution they drafted has been successful for most of U. And it has brought remarkable stability to one of the most tumultuous forms of political activity: popular democracy. The challenge that all nations in the world have faced not only in drafting a constitution, but also creating a form of government that both provides stability to its nation and sufficient civic responsibility and liberty to its people, is enormous.
Indeed, among the more than constitutions presently operating in the world today, few have been as successful in creating that delicate balance between governmental power and personal liberty among the citizens ruled by their government.
The remarkable achievement of the fifty-five men gathered in Philadelphia during the summer of was by no means inevitable. Looking back on their work that summer, we can identify a few factors that enabled them to achieve their success. Certainly among the most important was the quality of leadership among those most committed to strengthening the American government.
The ringleader was the thirty-seven-year-old James Madison. Standing only a few inches over five-feet tall, scrawny, suffering from a combination of poor physical health and hypochondria, and painfully awkward in any public forum, Madison nevertheless possessed a combination of intellect, energy, and political savvy that would mobilize the effort to create an entirely new form of continental union.
The Pennsylvania and Virginia delegates then met frequently during the days leading up to May Together these men would forge a radical new plan, the Virginia Plan, which would shape the course of events during that summer of
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