0 present participle of legislate --
1 If a government legislates, it makes a new law: --
All these factors may have led the legislating elite in the direction of a permissive outlook and somewhat less inequality, as reflected in the progressive fines.
Ministers have lower incentives to produce detailed laws in informationally intense issue areas where the opportunity cost of legislating, in terms of forgone constituency and government service, is greater.
We should fear only that by legislating virtue we shall fail to encourage its cultivation by those who do not already enjoy the dispositional states within which it resides.
Or government may sanction ineffective sectoral governance by threatening to act itself or legislating in ways that transform the existing form of regulation.
If advocates of the politics of presence are right, however, that amounts to legislating partially in ignorance.
I have always held that legislating language is a tricky business, one that's likely to backfire, or misfire.
The alternative of legislating that pension fund fiduciaries are obliged to act ' prudently ' in managing investments.
The judge who conceives of herself as legislating rarely says so in an opinion.
