1.   Even in presidential systems, the legislature has the power to overturn the executive by means of the extraordinary process of impeachment.

2.   In a sense, even though legislatures usually have spokespersons and leaders, no one can truly speak for the legislature.

3.   In fact, however, most contemporary legislatures do not have the dominant role in the policy-making function.

4.   And some of its basic assumptions seem to be confirmed by casual observations of the problems which legislatures have in performing one of their traditional functions.

5.   The legislature has never had occasion to speak on this matter, and the issue has never come to court.

6.   And the legislature does not have the power to introduce bills on major issues without the acquiescence of the chief executive.

7.   Both state legislatures would have to pass bills giving airport operators the authority to send the fingerprints of other employees to the FBI as well.

8.   Break them and the Communist legislature will have a field day.

9.   But Casey Walker, an attorney who represented the state Department of Children and Families, said the state legislature had a right to make such decisions.

10.   But state legislatures would have to pass their own legislation to change speed limits, otherwise the federal limits would remain.