Quotes About Legislation

The common mantra of today is that 'we can't legislate morality,' though, of course, every law is a statement of what that nation's people believe to be moral or immoral. A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community… that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

A wiser and more useful philosophy, however, directs us to consider man according to the nature in which he was formed; subject to infirmities, which no wisdom can remedy; to weaknesses, which no institution can strengthen; to vices, which no legislation can correct. Hence,

Once again, the civil society chanting "Todos somos Marcos" ("We are all Marcos") filled the capital's ZOcalo plaza, and support for the Mayan rebels ran so high that the Mexican congress was forced to pass legislation ordering Zedillo to open a dialogue with the Zapatistas.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual, both by the force of opinion and even by that of legislation:

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There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

the more bureaucrats there are, the more laws are needed to keep them fed. I

A mere month and a half after 9/11, the structure for a new governmental scheme was in place. The

Ramrodded through Congress by the Bush administration, the bill was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives

Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) has called for initiation of the Right to Know Act, which would require that commodities containing RFID tags bear labels stating that fact in order to protect consumer privacy.

There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

A legislature continuously sitting, always making laws, always repealing laws, would have been both an anomaly and a nuisance.

The essence of a civilised age is, that administration requires the continued aid of legislation.

Treaties are quite as important as most laws, and to require the elaborate assent of representative assemblies to every word of the law, and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty, is prima facie ludicrous.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.

When religious arguments based on the perspective of a single century or culture reach a high pitch, or when people who seem to have read only excerpts of the Bible use it to propose legislation, I return to the Book - not to find a solution, but to remember how many possibilities there are.

Penalties were established for refusal to work, for leaving a place of employment to seek higher pay, and for the offer of higher pay by employers. Proclaimed when Parliament was not sitting, the ordinance was reissued in 1351 as the Statute of Laborers.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.