"There should have been a stipulation which prevents legislating anything that contradicts Islam in the new Iraq," Mr. Hakim added, summarizing the ayatollah's views.
Although knowledge of these laws is fragmentary, it does not appear that Demetrius legislated anything on the subject of epikleroi.
And just living, living what you believe and being a strong independent woman, I think, is much more important than legislating anything to help women out," she said.
The home minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, said it was "not possible to legislate on anything now".
One is the widely-held belief that Italy's existing arrangements, involving two chambers with equal powers and identical duties, make it impossible to legislate at anything but snail's pace.
Some departments can go for a whole parliamentary session without legislating for anything.
"We are not trying to legislate morality or anything like that," Martin Foncello, the first selectman, said.
"You can't on one hand say that you're strongly deeply committed to penalty rates and then on the other hand say, 'We're not going to do anything to legislate for those conditions'.
The referendums of consequence, which tackle issues that politicians refuse to legislate on themselves, rarely have anything to do with money (at least directly).
In their view, and evidently that of the Koch brothers, "no matter how 'necessary' or 'proper' an Act of Congress may be to its objective, Congress lacks authority to legislate if the objective is anything other than 'carrying into Execution' one or more of the Federal Government's enumerated powers".
