If the Bush administration wanted to prevent states from allowing assisted suicide, it should have tried to persuade Congress to pass a federal law to that effect.
In 2011, they overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution making sports betting legal, and early last year the state legislature passed a law to that effect.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that abortion was permissible when risk was present, but the government never passed a law to that effect.
Without very explicit language in the law to that effect, she said, there was no evidence that the voters understood that thousands of people and their families "would, after passage of Proposition 8, be unmarried".
The loss of Zoe was listed among Donegan's injuries as part of a grievous bodily harm charge, but Donegan wanted it to be listed as a separate crime and set out to change the law to that effect.
There had never been any one law to that effect, but by Diocletian's time the emperor had at his command a body of long-established custom and numerous imperial decisions that served just as well.
Mr. Gore and Mr. Lieberman proposed that if the industry did not change its practices within six months, the commission should impose regulations on the marketing of movies, video games and music, and that a new law to that effect should be passed, if needed.
In October, the European commissioner for the digital economy, Günther Oettinger, told the German newspaper Handelsblatt, "If Google takes intellectual property from the E.U. and works with it, the E.U. can protect this property and can demand a charge for it"; he said a law to that effect could be in place by 2016.
Congress passed a new law to that effect, the Chinese Exclusion Act, in 1882.
Congress passed a new law to that effect, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, after Hayes left office.
