The head of Scotland's government, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, said Sunday that under the legislation governing Scotland's position within the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament effectively has a legislative veto over Britain's formal withdrawal from the EU.
But nor did Blair's comments about the "rules of the game" refer only to the legislative framework governing counterterrorism.
On Thursday, the chair of the ISC announced his committee was to review whether the legislative framework governing the intelligence services access to private information was fit for purpose.
James Welch, the legal director of Liberty, said: "Parliament has accepted that it needs to create a legislative framework governing intrusions on privacy by the state: search warrants, phone taps, etc.
"In just two months, we have seen a worrying shift in the legislative environment governing the enjoyment of the freedoms of assembly, association, speech and information in the Russian Federation," said Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, in a statement released in Geneva.
One thing that this whole SOPA issue shows (and COICA before it, and others before that, and surely more to come) is the complete disconnect between the informed, online community and the legislative and governing bodies.
A U.K. parliamentary committee has widened the scope of a planned inquiry into the legislative framework governing national intelligence agencies' access to private information, triggered by the PRISM revelations in the U.S. It will now consider more broadly the impact of mass surveillance on individuals' right to privacy.
The paper discusses how in the absence of state capacity to establish and enforce a regulatory and coordination framework, a highly pluralistic and informal health market has evolved which operates largely outside of the legislative frameworks governing heath care.
"My basic suggestions are 1) you need to be active 2) you need to do some non-legislative governing and 3) you need to pick up again on pressuring the leg to get back to work on key issues".
In that era, the supervisors functioned as the county's legislative and administrative governing body, so it was the last time Democrats controlled the entire county government.
And although the Obama wave does not seem to have brought with it a filibuster-proof Senate, it did sweep into office enough new members of both houses of Congress to offer him the hope of a governing legislative majority.
