Sanjaya Baru

There are any number of socially relevant causes that publicly minded individuals may feel strongly about. In a democracy, it is for the government of the day to legislate laws to deal with such issues. Not for courts to issue advisories and declare criminal what may often be normal economic activity protecting livelihoods.

Indian Public Servant

Warren Spector

Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.

American Designer

Athol Fugard

You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

South African Playwright

Judith Martin

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

American Author

Rick Stein

In Australia you're not allowed to go down to the beach and eat anything from the rocks. You just can't do it - help yourself to mussels and things like that because there's hardly any left and the government has now legislated against it.

English Chef

Ben Okri

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

Nigerian Poet

Tom Douglas

It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly.

American Chef

Nick Harkaway

With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.

English Novelist

Jonathan Zittrain

How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.

American Educator

Bill Bradley

Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

American Politician

Used when describing government action in shaping public policies through new laws.

Policy Influence

Legislate doesn't imply the laws are good or bad, just that they are made.

Not Always Positive

Implies an ongoing process, not just the final act of law creation.

Action Process

Used when laws are crafted with a focus on fine details and specifications.

Detail Focused

Implies the authoritative power to establish rules within a legal framework.

Legal Authority

Points out that only certain bodies, like parliaments, have the power to legislate.

Scope of Power

 how can we observe discrimination, let alone fix it? In other How can a government create fair policies if they can't measure current levels of unfairness? This isn't just about discrimination, it's everything -- think about it. How can we legislate on health care if we don't have good data on health or poverty?

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 made today that simply are not acceptable and are not supported by the majority of societies so what is it that we can do to change it and I think the first thing is to accept that it is a responsibility of everyone secondly that it is not just government that can legislate this out of existence

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 You can agree with all that -- I do -- and still think prohibition is a terrible policy. In a better, more equal world, maybe there would be far fewer people selling sex to survive, but you can't simply legislate a better world into existence. If someone needs to sell sex because they're poor

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 And I shouldn't have to use the men's room because I'm not a man. I'm a trans person. And now we've got these fearmongering politicians that keep trying to pass these bathroom bills. Have you heard about these? They try to legislate to try and force people like myself

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 that vastly different regimes claim to embody it. At the same time, some share Plato's skepticism about the wisdom of crowds. Many modern democracies reconcile this conflict by having citizens elect those they consider qualified to legislate on their behalf.

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 And so while the billboards are great for raising awareness generally, they're just not enough to put an end to this problem. I believe that if we're going to be serious about sex trafficking, we can't legislate or arrest our way out of modern-day slavery.

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 and the u.s actually legislated to protect them and other native birds santo cranes can be hunted they in fact are hunted in almost all states except nebraska where we are now but it's always under strict conditions so i think the the success of these

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 Now, this is one model of how language comes to namely, it's legislated by an academy. But anyone who looks at language realizes that this is a rather silly conceit,

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 That's why they legislate to protect their language. They make it sacred. That's why they use it in production, they pay a lot of money to develop it.

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 Wales is a small but progressive country, the only country in the world to have legislated to protect the interests of future generations,