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The repeal of restrictive legislation has practical benefits, in addition to extending individual liberty.
Despite some expected protests, the new anti-terrorism legislation enjoys wide support among the French, who seem willing to accept certain limitations to personal freedoms in the name of collective security.
Hensarling blamed regulators and excused Wall Street for the financial crisis; condemned government-funded bank bailouts; characterized the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation as a power grab; and called for increased congressional oversight of the Federal Reserve.
The third problem is one of logistics: Hensarling’s plan would hardwire into legislation the parameters for banks to take a regulatory off-ramp, thus tying regulators’ hands.
In the United States, for example, recent legislation should help to ensure that the best evidence-based practices will form the basis of non-coercive interrogation.
The fresh wave of anti-gay legislation in Nigeria and Uganda (according to Amnesty International, homosexuality is illegal in 38 of 54 African countries) follows the recent embrace of official repression of homosexuality elsewhere.
Supporters of such legislation – including advocates in the United States of a recently proposed Arizona law that would have permitted business owners to refuse service to gays on religious grounds – argue that it reflects an organic popular backlash against a threat to “traditional” values.
But legal history shows just how duplicitous this global rash of legislation really is – and whose purposes it really serves.
Yes, the Russian Orthodox Church supports the country’s law prohibiting “gay propaganda”; likewise, the right-wing Ugandan and Nigerian nationalists backing their countries’ anti-gay legislation insist that they are asserting local, as opposed to Western, values.
The Ugandan Parliament, for example, cites “internal and external threats to the traditional heterosexual lifestyle,” while Museveni casts the legislation as a rejection of Western decadence.
Indeed, the Indian Penal Code of 1860, which was exported as a model by Britain to its colonies around the world (and which still today forms the basis for anti-gay legislation in countries such as Egypt), was a crucial tool in the management of empire and the control of unruly new populations.
What distinguishes such legislation is that it can eventually turn any human contact or speech into a crime.
That was the role that such legislation played under British colonial rule, when a small number of imperial officials had to find novel ways to control millions of new, culturally diverse subjects.
In Uganda, Nigeria, Russia, and India (and, yes, in Arizona as well), anti-gay legislation has served those who are more interested in curtailing freedom in general.
The government can be forced to pass decrees, and Parliament can be pressured to adopt all the reform legislation known to humanity.
It is the source of the inflation in legislation in the European countries.
I was clear in my article to which he is responding that I wish we had not supported the 2000 legislation.
But I also noted that there is no reason to think that, in the absence of the legislation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Bush administration would have asserted sweeping new authority over derivatives and pointed to the legal certainty problem that career lawyers thought was important to address.
His relations with fellow Republicans in Congress are in free fall, as are his chances of passing any serious legislation.
They may be protected under animal welfare legislation, but that is not enough to prevent them being things, because antiquities and areas of natural beauty are also protected.
Many will require legislation, on which my colleagues in the Diet have been spending much of their time over the last couple of months.
Yet, even with these flaws, the legislation addressed the palpable cyclical reality of an unemployment rate touching 10%.
The net result of fiscal and monetary policy moving in opposite directions is that the Fed will make the government debt created by this legislation more expensive.
The flight of East Asians from Kenya during that country’s “Africanization” campaign led directly to the UK’s anti-immigration legislation of 1968.
The original legislation invited international outrage, especially from Israel.
In a country where money trumps democracy, such legislation has become predictably frequent.
Bankruptcy legislation in China started right after Deng Xiaoping launched his pro-market reforms three decades ago.
The legislation also imposed a deadline to abolish “policy-based bankruptcy” – the practice adopted by the State Council to liquidate loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and resettle laid-off employees.
Despite the difficulties that remain, China’s bankruptcy legislation is increasingly adapted to the market economy; the trend is irreversible.
The “endogenous” factors contributing to wide-scale regulatory capture and corporate rentierism can be addressed with stronger antitrust legislation, policies to empower organized labor, revisions to existing trade agreements, and better monitoring, at the international level, of transfer pricing and tax evasion.
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