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legislation

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The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.

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The world is not going to be saved by legislation. William Howard Taft

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. Denis Diderot

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill) Franklin D. Roosevelt

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. Henry David Thoreau

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. Phyllis Schlafly

A $600 boost to unemployment expires at the end of July, but McConnell stated that the Senate will not pass any legislation until mid-August. Source: Internet

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