It's an amazing passage because in a lot of ways, I think, Milton is actually directly enacting for us, the reader, the impossibility of such sweet forgetfulness.
Individuals do not directly enact substantive legislative programs.
Likewise, the referendum, which should be the ultimate in democratic action, the public directly enacting legislation or proposing constitutional amendments, has also been hijacked from its original purpose.
Unlike the citizens' initiative process where voters directly enact legislation, voter instructions embrace representative democracy by giving simple directives to elected officials and leaving to them the details of implementing the policy.
Treasury officials estimated that two-thirds of their recommendations could be enacted directly by regulators, with the remainder requiring congressional action.
Management of marine resources was enacted both directly through choices about when, where, and how to harvest and tend resources and indirectly through social relations and rules about the right way to behave.
"In fact this measure, if enacted, would directly conflict with that law," Carter said of the Safe Campus Act.
