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  2. 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."

  3. 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 ...

  4. Rulemaking - Wikipedia

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    In administrative law, rulemaking is the process that executive and independent agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations.In general, legislatures first set broad policy mandates by passing statutes, then agencies create more detailed regulations through rulemaking.

  5. Code of Federal Regulations - Wikipedia

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    A few volumes of the CFR at a law library (titles 12–26) In the law of the United States, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent regulations promulgated by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government of the United States. The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent ...

  6. Creation mandate - Wikipedia

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    These predate the Mosaic Law and are often thought to apply to all people rather than just Christians. They include the cultural mandate ("Be fruitful and multiply!"), including both marriage and procreation (Gen 1:28), the labour mandate (Gen 2:15), and complying with Sabbath (Gen 2:3). [1]

  7. United States corporate law - Wikipedia

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    Every state and territory has its own basic corporate code, while federal law creates minimum standards for trade in company shares and governance rights, found mostly in the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by laws like the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and ...

  8. Mandate (politics) - Wikipedia

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    A mandate is desirable for political parties, as it gives them leeway in policy implementation. [1] A party or candidate may claim to have a mandate, but it only confers a political advantage if this claim is widely accepted. [5] Non-electoral governments, such as dictatorships and monarchies, may also claim to have a popular mandate to rule. [6]

  9. Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) [a] is the common government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, comprising 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district (national capital) of Washington, D.C ...