In a republic, majority will is held in check by constitutional guarantees that forbid legislation encroaching on individual rights even if 51 percent or 95 percent of the population favors it.
Presidents of several Italian regions, which have traditionally overseen laws regulating some aspects of retail commerce, complain that the legislation is encroaching on their territory and have pledged to fight the changes in court.
Under the California Alien Land Law, of 1913 — a piece of racist legislation designed to deter Asians from encroaching on white businesses and farms — losing that status also meant losing his property and his business.
Under the California Alien Land Law, of 1913 a piece of racist legislation designed to deter Asians from encroaching on white businesses and farms losing that status also meant losing his property and his business.
On the future of press regulation, he said there was a risk that legislation could lead to amendments being made and parliament encroaching its way into the structure.
Does he fantasize that the New Deal and civil-rights legislation (the latter, largely the work of the federal government encroaching on what was often called states' rights) arose out of Bolshevik schemes to destroy communities in the name of central authority?
'Horn Relief's' solutions to encroaching desertification of Somalia follow a two pronged strategy, firstly to bring in legislation to ban charcoal burning and secondly to educate the communities as to the harmful effects of the practice and work with them to mitigate further environmental degradation.
The government this week passed new legislation which aims to prevent paramilitary or other uniformed groups from encroaching on the role of the police to keep law and order.
By taking up the function of scrutinizing existing and prospective legislation for differentiating measures and inconsistencies with fundamental liberties, the Council may be encroaching on the functions of constitutional interpretation, which is traditionally the function of courts.
In other countries, clothing legislation has been passed to ensure the preservation of local identity and dress in the face of encroaching foreign cultures.
