Law Making

Do we move to an era of expanded referendum-style law-making where internet voting gives direct, almost instant access to the popular will? ❋ Oliver R. Goodenough (2012)

The government argues that the members of the parliament are the servants of the society and they were elected by the people and hence they should be the only ones involved in the law-making process. ❋ Piyush Mangukiya (2011)

Maybe the President has been less corrupted by power than either the House or Senate Democrats, but that hasn't really mattered because he has relatively little say in the actual law-making process. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They forget that Congress has proven, especially since the financial collapse, to be completely insulated from any rational appeal from the citizenry for major regulatory or structural reform and that, consequently, any effort to lobby for specific policy exposes itself to the rot that is eating away at our entire system of law-making. ❋ Sean Firko (2011)

This means Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal and some other social activists should not be part of this law-making process as they were not elected by the people and hence they don't represent the civil society. ❋ Piyush Mangukiya (2011)

Meanwhile, corporate interests have made the State corrupt by financing it, and the State has made corporations corrupt through corporatist law-making. ❋ Robin Koerner (2011)

If the EPA would be honest about how much it's regulations and unconstitutional administrative law-making really cost I might be a little more inclined to accept them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Government suggests that civil society or some of its members should not be involved in the law-making process. ❋ Piyush Mangukiya (2011)

The Premier League got the go-ahead to introduce goalline technology from the Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, on Wednesday, as long as the law-making International Football Association Board Ifab approves it next March. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Legislation has become the leitmotif of civic Scotland since the birth of devolution and it was reassuring that Alex Salmond has chosen to maintain Holyrood's curious passion for relentless law-making. ❋ Unknown (2011)