codify
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To reduce to a code, as laws.
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Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.
We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.
The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.
With far-right justices poised to overturn Roe, the lives of millions of Americans depend on us. We must codify the right to an abortion into federal law - even if it means eliminating the filibuster. We must flip state legislatures. And states like NY must open our doors.
Hammurabi codified the laws
A bill draft titled COVID-19 Response Act would codify some of the changes Cooper made with his executive order, as well as provide flexibility for attached claims.