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  2. Legislation - Wikipedia

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    Legislation is the process or result of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating laws by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body. [1] Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, and may be broadly referred to as "legislation" while it remains under consideration to distinguish it from other business ...

  3. Lawmaking - Wikipedia

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    Lawmaking is the process of crafting legislation. [1] In its purest sense, it is the basis of governance.. Lawmaking in modern democracies is the work of legislatures, which exist at the local, regional, and national levels and make such laws as are appropriate to their level, and binding over those under their jurisdictions.

  4. Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1883 - Wikipedia

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    By 1913, there were 39 states with medical schools, like Alabama, that still lacked Anatomy acts. January 1, 1889. In order to carry the Pennsylvania Anatomy Act of 1883 into execution, the attention of all state, county, and municipal officers charged with duties under the law were directed towards fulfilling its requirements.

  5. Rulemaking - Wikipedia

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    The agency creates a permanent record of its analysis and the process; The agency's actions can be reviewed by a judge or others to ensure the correct process was followed. The primary administrative law statutes and other laws that govern agency rule making include: [2] The Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 553

  6. Law - Wikipedia

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    The law shapes politics, economics, history and society in various ways and also serves as a mediator of relations between people. Legal systems vary between jurisdictions, with their differences analysed in comparative law. In civil law jurisdictions, a legislature or other central body codifies and consolidates the law.

  7. Primary and secondary legislation - Wikipedia

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    The government can also create laws, called decree-law (Decreto-Ley), for urgent matters and are restricted on what they can do. Decree-laws must be approved within a month by the Cortes Generales . The secondary legislation is called a legislative decree ( Decreto legislativo ); it can only delegate on the government for a given topic, within ...

  8. United States administrative law - Wikipedia

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    Section 551 of the Administrative Procedure Act gives the following definitions: . Rulemaking is "an agency process for formulating, amending, or repealing a rule." A rule in turn is "the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy."

  9. Public law - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between public and private law was first made by Roman jurist Ulpian, who argues in the Institutes (in a passage preserved by Justinian in the Digest) that "[p]ublic law is that which respects the establishment of the Roman commonwealth, private that which respects individuals' interests, some matters being of public and others of private interest."