On Sunday, the governor, above, also announced completed deals that would ban the sale of recalled toys, cribs and other children's products (no such ban currently is in place in New York), would impose new laws to prevent identity theft and would provide grants for making homes more energy efficient.
"How can we impose new laws, or move ahead with reforms, when laws are being broken?
A British parliamentary inquiry into the subject of paying bosses large amounts even when they fail reported last month that it would prefer the government to give industry's own initiatives on the subject time to work rather than to impose new laws.
Hollywood power players are backing away from associating with the Beverly Hills Hotel, owned by the tiny country Brunei, which has imposed new laws against homosexuality and adultery.
Russian authorities have also clamped down on free and opposition media, restricted internet access, and imposed new laws that restrict nongovernmental groups and activists.
The document proposes an absolutist theory of monarchy, by which a king may impose new laws by royal prerogative but must also pay heed to tradition and to God, who would "stirre up such scourges as pleaseth him, for punishment of wicked kings".
Mr. Shays attracted Democratic support partly because he had cast himself as a moderate willing to defy the party's leadership on major issues, chief among them a federal law imposing new restrictions on campaign spending and contributions.
States are considered sovereigns under law, and imposing new requirements on them is difficult, as the Obama administration has learned through the current court battle over the health care overhaul.
Dr. James H. Scully Jr., chief executive of the association, said some insurers had tried to "circumvent the law" by "imposing new requirements for prior authorization and the submission of treatment plans for mental health services where there were no comparable requirements on the medical-surgical side".
