1.   But the Constitution is silent on how legislatures should go about it.

2.   It is now rare for a state legislature to go through a session without facing at least one tobacco debate.

3.   State legislatures went on a regulatory spree.

4.   The Georgia legislature goes into session Monday.

5.   The man appointed prime minister after the legislature went out of office, Jacques Alexis, said the original design of the police force was part of the problem.

6.   But it says the elected legislature must go because Patten enacted the rule changes without its approval.

7.   But it says the legislature must go because it was elected under rules Beijing never consented to.

8.   But nothing is likely to happen until the end of April, since the legislature goes on a three-week recess starting Monday.

9.   China says the legislature must go because it was elected under rule changes it never approved, and few Hong Kong people expect it to back down.

10.   China says the existing legislature must go because it was elected under rule changes to which it never agreed.