The Inquiries Act, in effect, allows ministers to scrutinise their own behaviour, while the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill proposed an extension of law by ministerial decree.
So, however tenuous the connection between one peer's private behaviour and the legislative credibility of the chamber in which he sat, the reality is that Lord Sewel's disgrace is bad for politics in general, and bad for the Lords in particular.
It is important to bear such practical limits in mind nevertheless, since one possible way to delineate the limits of the law is that such practical limits are the only limits that States must negotiate in its legislative and more broadly legal behaviour, beyond the platitude that it must act in a morally acceptable way.
Labor preferences against their own ultimate legislative interests, while engaging in electorally unpalatable behaviour.
They have also lived through a parallel legislative revolution in which words, attitudes and behaviours that were normal in 1945 are now illegal.
Examples of such behaviour include the private purchase of legislative votes, executive decrees, court decisions and illicit political party funding.
In the resource efficiency scenario, producers, retailers and other businesses reduce production impacts (perhaps due to rising resource prices or legislative pressure) but consumers do not change their behaviours.
Equally, there is evidence from the STS that the increase in the legal age of sale from 16 to 18 was followed by a decrease in smoking prevalence in this age group, suggesting that these legislative changes can have a real impact on smoking behaviour [ 9].
The watered-down version of FCC's network-neutrality rules, currently winding their way through the legislative process, contain no language whatsoever about monthly usage caps, only about impermissible behaviour by cable firms and telecoms.
Legislative measures have been identified as one effective way of changing attitude or behaviour towards health care.
