Another key signal is the passage of super pollutant legislation in California--a climate policy bellwether.
He led efforts to improve public transportation, fought wasteful water projects and authored the community Right to Know provision of Super Fund legislation, among other things.
In recent years, the gun industry has sought to enact even greater barriers to local control with what Preemption Watch calls so "super-preemption" legislation.
To make things worse, another plank in the Tories' super-voluntary, legislation-free approach to problematic drinking, its "responsibility deal", run by associates of Freud, has been condemned by the BMA, among many others, as weak and ineffective.
Enshrining the objective of the super system in legislation would "serve as a guide to policy makers, regulators, industry and the community about superannuation's fundamental purpose", the government said.
My proposed legislation, the "Super Pollutants Emissions Reduction (SUPER) Act," is aimed at reducing these harmful pollutants that are contributing to climate change.
A tax was first mooted in 2010 at a rate of 40% on all mining "super profits", but the legislation passed this week will implement a 30% tax on the super profits made from producing iron ore and coal.
Some African-Americans said her 1996 reference to some young criminals as "super-predators," and the legislation that President Bill Clinton signed imposing stiff sentences on nonviolent offenders, have made today's activists skeptical about her true intentions.
These include cumulative voting, a system (already existing in a few political jurisdictions) in which electors are given the same number of ballots as there are seats to fill on a policy-making body, and requirements of super-majorities to enact legislation (as in Mobile, Ala., where a decision of the seven-member City Council requires five votes, making inter-racial coalitions indispensable).
