| State legislatures are looking at ways to increase state revenues to fill budget deficits. |
| 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. |
| Republican-dominated legislatures and election officials have adopted absurdly difficult registration rules. |
| At the state level, some of the legislatures are bicameral, patterned after the two houses of the national parliament. |
| One secret of American lawmaking is that legislators and legislatures need lobbyists. |
