And by refusing to countenance electoral reform, Labour keeps the Tories in business as the default governing party in Britain.
However, it can still be asked why a law recognizing marriage as such should be necessary, as opposed to default rules governing property distribution when such gender-structured relationships end (Sunstein and Thaler 2008).
In the absence of a partnership agreement, your state law will provide default rules that govern the partnership.
The First Amendment should govern the default position.
We can, however, concede that default interpretations are governed by some principles of rational behaviour in communication, be it Gricean maxims, neo-Gricean principles or heuristics, the logic of information structuring of SDRT, or a version of defeasible logic.
Student loan default rates are one of the few federal standards that govern eligibility for federal government loan and Pell grant dollars.
It should also lead to an improvement of the legal frameworks governing defaults by sovereign countries.
Lastly, when no policies exist on either the institutional or user side to govern a certain action, the institutional side defaults to a lax policy (always allow) while the user side defaults to a strict policy (always deny).
It was, above all, profoundly irresponsible for Republicans to govern by threatening to send the Treasury into default if they did not get their way on spending, a wholly new and ugly phenomenon in American politics.
Beyond the countless number of American lives and businesses disrupted by the government shutdown, Congress's inability to reach a deal until hours before a potentially catastrophic default deepened domestic and international uncertainty about our ability to govern.
