Once the process of legislation is embarked upon, there is the danger that the big moral questions, far from being resolved, will be dispersed through a multitude of procedural questions; that the difference between mercy and murder will be lost in an ostensibly civilised bureaucracy of clinical killing.
Furthermore, societal relevance is present when the study initiates or simply provides a stimulus for public debate, or leads to/assists the process of legislation.
It is also right that a whole series of questions should be asked in terms of simplifying the process of legislation, on clarifying competencies of the Union and indeed restoring perhaps one or two to Member States, as is mentioned.
As the estates of civil society group their members according to their common interests, and as the deputies elected from the estates to the legislative bodies give voice to those interests within the deliberative processes of legislation, the outcome of this process might give expression to the general interest.
By the spring, the issue had become Obama's top priority, and Congress was starting the process of writing legislation.
The Philippine Congress is in the process of enacting legislation that will eventually bring the law up to date with advances in information technology.
In this situation, the process of framing legislation to protect life is subject to prudential judgment and 'the art of the possible.' " Apparently some Catholic bishops are ignoring the letter, which also says, "We bishops do not intend to tell Catholics for whom or against whom to vote".
On the day of the meeting, lawmakers were in the process of approving legislation to streamline the siting of new power plants in New York, a step that, for the first time in nearly a decade, makes replacing Indian Point and the huge amount of power it generates more feasible.
But Conservatives accused him of showing "contempt" for the process of scrutinising legislation.
Congress is in the process of writing legislation to overhaul the financial regulatory system.
