The president used the appearance to urge those lawmakers to revive the Voting Rights Act – a legislative pillar that sprung from the civil rights movement, and Selma in particular, which in 2013 was weakened by a supreme court decision.
The frameworks' five pillars are (a) existing legislative measures, (b) executive and budgetary support, (c) administrative and coordinating capacity, (d) participation of people with disabilities in the policymaking process, and, (e) attitudes of the society towards voters with disabilities.
The institutional and legislative foundations carefully laid by Wilson are the pillars of the liberal democracy we enjoy to this day.
Last month, the party rolled out a new populist-leaning agenda under the branding "A Better Deal". The platform lacks legislative proposals but made antitrust reform a core pillar.
All ours pillars of democracy are sullied indecently, be it legislative, executive, judiciary or press.
Europe's strategy to deal with dominant gas suppliers rests on several key pillars (i.e., market liberalization and integration, strengthening the legislative and regulatory framework, supporting market functioning, supply diversification, and moving away from fossil fuels altogether).
This applies as much to how the legislative output of that political class has altered the role of key institutions – pillars of order that can make or blur the difference between a civilised society and a Hobbesian free-for-all.
It had no legislative language behind it, but represented a set of ideas built on four essential pillars.
Cooper has also told staff that she wants the issue of sexual and domestic violence will be one of the Home Office's "core pillars" alongside terrorism, immigration and policing in what amount to her first concrete legislative proposals ahead of next year's election.
His illegitimacy has crept like kudzu into the judicial and legislative branches of the U.S. government, daring and defying what's left of the so-called pillars of democracy to stop him.
