But he sought and received GOP congressional support for Medicare, Medicaid, civil rights, education and other Great Society legislation.
Civil rights legislation and a more educated society made the South more tolerant and hospitable.
How easy would it be to expand the definition to include other groups on the fringes of society without primary legislation and public accountability?
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The bill has been condemned abroad - most recently by Australian lawmakers - making its proponents see this piece of legislation as a way of protecting Nigerian society from foreign influences.
Dr Bill Reid from the Methodist Church of Scotland said the legislation was calling on the whole of society in Scotland to assist in ending life and that that would be a "dangerous step".
Unfortunately, our society tends to pass feel-good legislation aimed at making people feel safer without actually making them safer.
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Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, said the future of equality legislation in Britain - and even Europe - could depend on the ruling.
Both signed into law this spring legislation creating a new class of corporations accountable to serve society as well as shareholders.
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The reality is: There are limits as to how much human legislation and regulation can accomplish for the good of human society.
Professor John Fabre, a former president of the British Transplantation Society, said that passing opt-out legislation in Spain was not the reason why the country had achieved a high donation rate.
Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) has introduced such legislation, called the Fairness to Pet Owners Act, supported by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The American Cancer Society agrees, saying that the tobacco industry in Africa tries to hold back legislation.
In a trenchant op.ed. for the Wall Street Journal, the eminent scholar David Satter further illuminates Russia's condition, revealing how "the Russian regime has worked systematically to eliminate all independent sources of power, " by, for example, adopting legislation that effectively gives the state control of NGOs - heretofore the sole outposts of Russian civil society.
In a society which is seeing record levels of debt, it is interesting that the Chancellor announced new legislation which will enable HMRC to introduce a credit card payment "service".
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