legislative norm

This whole process is carried on within the context of the legislative norms of expertise and reciprocity.

They argued that the Senate was in the hands of a mainly southern élite, armed with a self-serving code of legislative norms.

Political scientists have often sought to determine the effects on Congress of legislative norms, the unwritten but widely accepted rules according to which Members conduct business.

Mr President, Commissioner, when speaking of the information society we should remember that a large-scale reform of communications market law has just been undertaken with new legislative norms being created for the telecommunications and other network business.

The increasing irrelevance of legislative norms, the disappearance of the inner club and the triumph of individualism in the Senate are partly accounted for by the decline of the influence of the South in the chamber, although changing leadership styles have also had an effect.

The undue power of committee chairmen in relation to their colleagues was more of a problem in the House than in the Senate, but in the latter a system of legislative norms or folkways made possible dominance of the proceedings by leading members of the Senate inner club or establishment.