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Legislate
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To enact laws or pass resolutions by the lawmaking process, in contrast to law that is derived from principles espoused by courts in decisions.
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``I think that's crazy,'' Johnathon Luna, 26, a refinery welder, said of the effort to legislate against spanking.
SPANKING MIGHT BE OUTLAWED LEGISLATION WOULD MAKE SWATTING KIDS A ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Yet, although the Liberal governments of 1868 and 1880 took up aspects of land and parliamentary reform, especially in Ireland, Mr Gladstone resolutely refused to legislate against the power of the House of Lords, however obstructive it was to other Liberal measures of reform.
Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth- and ... by Royle, Edward / Journal of Social History
It is extremely hard to legislate against desperation, but it is more in keeping with the spirit to legislate opportunities.
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