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• v  make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
  We cannot legislate how people spend their free time

• Despite what Sonia Sotomayor must say, Justices often legislate from the bench, and that can be a good thing.
• This makes it easier to legislate and easier to surmount problems.
• About 15,000 delegates, they estimate, will gather in Moscow from the ends of the earth to legislate in the Palace of the Soviets.

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News & Articles

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• Politicians seek to block Irish president from signing abortion bill
  A government party member of the Irish parliament is leading the attempt to force the President of Ireland to call a referendum on plans to legislate for abortion.
  June 25, 2013 - Irish Central

Quotes

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• John McCain in International Herald Tribune
  Not content to merely predict failure in Iraq, my opponent tried to legislate failure,McCain said.
• George Voinovich in FOXNews
  Judge Sotomayor's decisions, while not always the decision I would render, are not outside the legal mainstream and do not indicate an obvious desire to legislate from the bench,Republican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio said on the Senate...
• Antonin Scalia in Keen News Service
  The fact is,said Scalia, "that running a democracy takes a certain amount of civic courage. And the First Amendment does not protect you from criticism or even nasty phone calls when you exercise your political rights to legislate, or to...