But the core of a democracy is the rule of law -- law that is legislated by a popularly elected legislature.
The topsy turvy tax debate centres on a tax cut due to take effect from 1 July this year that was legislated as the second part of family compensation for Labor's carbon pricing scheme.
When games routinely end with scores like 15-12, officials will grudgingly take steps to help the downtrodden pitchers, raising the mound a few inches from the 10-inch height that was legislated in 1968 and expanding the strike zone by enforcing the borders provided in the rule book.
In the 1916 Aesthetics, Lukács adopts a much more radical version of this Neo-Kantian argument: whereas the reality of everyday life is characterized by a heterogeneity of forms of objects, the aesthetic sphere of validity is characterized by a distinct form of objectivity that is legislated as a norm by experience itself.
What is modern-day Route 124 was designated as a part of pre-1927 Route 5, a route that was legislated in 1916 to run from Delaware in Warren County east to Newark.
In the reality-bubble of Washington, it's easy to overlook the fact that the elderly have been feeling the pinch for years -- from health care and housing costs to the higher retirement age that was legislated in 1983 and is still working its way through the population.
(Patient 3) Its difficult because there is so much stuff that is legislated that has to be in, so it is difficult to condense them any less.
"It has been difficult, and one reason it has been difficult is this is kind of a new area we are working in — that is, legislating".
"People are really concerned about this and they know it's at this level in Europe that these are legislated on and this is where we can do something about them".
The new move has already been criticised by John Healey, Labour's shadow cabinet minister for housing, who said people would be "astonished that ministers are legislating to deny families a stable home".
