A bunker mentality is codified by law.
Italian law is codified and based on Roman law, in particular as regards civil law.
The doctrine of executive privilege is unlikely to go away unless it is codified into law.
The penal code is codified in a hardcover book that was kept at the ministry.
De-Baathification is written into the Iraqi Constitution and is codified under the Accountability and Justice Law.
White supremacy is codified in them... and it's not unrealistic to think some of that still exists.
Much of this law is codified in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed Dec. 10, 1982.
If the problem Rein identified is codified segregation at the polls, enabled by the laws and officials that specifically and explicitly bar black people from voting, then of course he is right.
But because nothing is codified, the government has enormous amount of power with little check on its policies -- provided it has a parliamentary majority, which governments by definition do.
I suspect, however, that the real reason is that domestic abuse is codified to make it seem rarer or more distant from the mainstream than it is – in this case, straightforwardly, by not counting properly.
This shift from a long tradition of paying such costs, one that is codified in many companies' bylaws and in some states' laws, has come since the Justice Department set guidelines in 2003 amid a sweeping crackdown on corporate fraud.
