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New legislation will be needed to enable amendments to the constitution, and this will take time and even more debate.
It also calls on the government to adopt, within a year, legislation to prohibit potentially harmful experiments on great apes that are not in their interests.
Like most major legislation, Dodd-Frank could be improved.
Norway has emerged as a world leader in rigorous building standards aimed at enhancing protection from floods and storm surges, with legislation introduced over the last four years having established a classification system for new construction.
In Western democracies, the constitution is the supreme law of the land, taking precedence over all other legislation.
All told, the legislation is expected to add $1.9 trillion to the US national debt by 2028.
Europe and America were slow to enact legislation barring their companies from bribing foreign government officials in return for mining concessions or other advantages, and there has been limited enforcement of the rules.
The Kremlin’s official negotiating stance is that it wants a unitary Ukraine that gives the separatist republics considerable autonomy and the right to veto key national legislation.
The legislation against Indian slavery was further strengthened during the regency of Mariana of Austria (1665-1675), the mother of Charles II.
Notwithstanding the political pandering to hard-pressed middle-class families, corporate America is clearly the focus of these efforts, with proposed legislation aiming to reduce business tax rates from 35% to 20%.
Macron’s challenge, then, is to craft legislation for the digital age.
Not surprisingly, Macron’s proposed legislation has provoked criticism, not just from Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front, but also from the extreme left.
In any case, Macron’s proposed legislation will be but one tool in the fight against disinformation.
Moreover, he claims that the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation is a large factor holding back the recovery.
But that will be an empty promise: the US president has far less control over legislation than government heads in parliamentary democracies like Britain or in countries like China.
More importantly, the EU’s success should not be measured only by particular pieces of legislation and regulation, or even in the prosperity that economic integration has brought.
While invoking the specter of cyber attacks may help to mobilize domestic support for security legislation, it may also increase the likelihood of a major cyber conflict.
Granted, the term sounds archaic; but the Torah is the first systematic legislation that forbids cruelty to animals and mandates that they be treated with consideration and respect.
Within weeks, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government proposed legislation that put religious circumcision on a solid legal basis, with the support of most members of the Bundestag.
The 1981 legislation was not true tax reform, but a rushed and poorly coordinated frenzy of fiscally irresponsible cuts to both corporate and personal income taxes.
Almost every day brings news of some radical change in the legislation proposed in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
It goes without saying that thorough deliberation is essential to good legislation, not just to secure the political buy-in of others, but also to avoid drafting errors and limit unintended consequences.
But the legislation cuts the corporate tax rate too much and closes too few loopholes to achieve anything close to revenue neutrality.
The current proposed legislation does the opposite.
France's ongoing public debate about secularism and legislation is an important effort in this direction, even if the debate could be better organized to demonstrate the link between principles, social and anthropological facts, and public policy.
South Africa’s Nobel Prize-winning novelist and anti-apartheid activist Nadine Gordimer has likened the bill to apartheid legislation.
Legislation is swiftly improved in all the new democracies.
A prime example is the tax legislation recently rammed through the Senate.
In retrospect, the breakthrough legislation – not just for the US, but also internationally – was the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
Why are these antitrust tools not used against today’s megabanks, which have become so powerful that they can sway legislation and regulation massively in their favor, while also receiving generous taxpayer-financed bailouts as needed?
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