It's for Governor Merrill and the citizen legislature and the town councils of New Hampshire to decide.

Mr. Vallone has opposed restricting outside income, saying he favors a "citizen legislature" that does not rely on full-time officials who have no other professional or business interests.

During his tenure he was a strong supporter of fiscal responsibility and the preservation of a citizen legislature.

A Loss of Reality "One of the strengths of Connecticut was that we had a true citizen legislature," Mr. Tiffany said.

Do the states have traditions of large, part-time, citizen legislatures, like New Hampshire, which are often easier for an outsider to penetrate?

The clattery, shuffly, all-too-real documentary opens with some Idahoan legislators telling teenagers, at length, what average and ordinary guys they are as members of a so-called citizen legislature.

The citizen legislature is running as fast as it can just to stay in place.

He caimpaigned as a citizen legislature who exemplified the craftsmen in government ideal he claims the founding fathers had.

In the United States, a citizen legislature is one made up primarily of citizens who have a full-time occupation besides being a legislator.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican first elected from Texas in 1993, said term limits would "bring back the concept of a citizen legislature."