Kenya's political class accomplished some of these tasks, including the peaceful passage of a new constitution in August that devolves power and establishes a bill of rights.
A referendum on a new constitution in August 2010 produced a resounding "yes" vote, devolving power and establishing a bill of rights.
In partnership with the Ministry of Justice and a group of law professors, including Bruno Magrani, Facebook's current head of public policy in Brazil, the original bill was drafted through a participatory process to establish a bill of rights for Brazil's Internet: protecting user privacy and freedom of speech, assuring net neutrality, establishing safe harbor for online service providers.
Or, on the other hand, imagine having a great idea and establishing a bill, fighting for it to reach a threshold level, and seeing elected representatives carry it into the process of becoming a law.
Mr. Weinstein sponsored measures that created the Urban Development Corporation and the Crime Victims' Compensation Board, reformed divorce and welfare laws, established a consumer bill of rights, increased aid for air-pollution controls and Regents scholarships, and promoted hospital expansion.
He also insisted the Tories had made a "very clear manifesto promise" to scrap the Human Rights Act and establish a British Bill of Rights in its place and now had a "mandate for that promise".
Still, many liberals argue the sectarian conflicts prove Egypt should establish a permanent "bill of rights" to protect religious and personal freedoms before holding elections that could give power to an Islamist majority.
The bill established a limit on the amount of time a person could receive cash payments from the state and required recipients to work.
The bill, which established a prescription drug benefit, was supposed to cost no more than $400 billion over the next decade.
The bill also established a groundwork for a so-called water market, which allowed agricultural interests to sell excess water to cities and other users for a profit.
