| 单词 | ripper bill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasripper bill 4. U.S. Politics. A piece of legislation that abolishes or strips the power from another political body, an agency, etc., esp. that of a political opponent. More fully ripper bill. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative Ragmanc1400 Statute of Sewers1571 Poynings' Act1613 Poynings' Law1622 Statute of Limitations1641 Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647 new tables1664 Habeas Corpus Act1705 Judicature Act1782 continuance act1863 stay-law1880 ripper1885 reception statute1931 thirty-year rule1966 sunshine law1968 1885 Chicago Tribune 9 Oct. o1/7 The speaker promised to speak in full of the Cincinnati ‘Ripper’ in his Saturday night speech in that city. He then recognized the provisions of the bill to reorganize the City of Columbus. 1895 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 1 Apr. 4/2 The Merryman ripper bill looks very much as if the Republicans of this city were going to the legislature for offices. 1937 J. R. Schultz in Amer. Speech 12 319 The word ‘ripper’ is commonly used in Pennsylvania political parlance to describe a bill that abolishes an office or commission of state or city. Such an act is said usually to have as its purpose the elimination of an officer or member of a commission who is unfriendly to the party in power. 1973 Washington Post 27 Mar. c2/2 King called the legislation ‘a ripper bill’, charging that it was designed to punish some incumbent board members. 2004 T. Messer-Kruse Banksters, Bosses, & Smart Money ii. 41 Governer Davis's ‘Ripper Bill’ solved one immediate problem: it allowed him to dump out the Democratic holdovers from the previous administration. < as lemmas |
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