In fact, the legislative, executive and judicial powers are so well respected in Honduras that when President Manuel Zelaya wanted to illegally change the constitution to extend his term in office, these two branches conformed by sympathizers and opponents of Mr. Zelaya, acted independently and in accordance to the law declaring that this move was illegal.

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It's a little bit after the fact, given that the legislative changes for the Royal Charter system they agreed between them have already been voted through, but events have moved so fast that the committee is playing catch-up.

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It seems that there are in fact two bills--sort of a legislative Scylla and Charybdis--calling for the creation of a Federal CIO.

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Some of the recent legislative proposals and press accounts seem to have lost sight of this fact.

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In fact, she refused requests to put abortion bills on the agenda during a special legislative session this summer, preferring to discuss the natural-gas pipeline, which she pursued in such a bipartisan manner that she ultimately won more solid support for it from Democrats than from Republicans.

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As a matter of fact, a slew of seats are up for grabs in North Carolina, including state legislative seats and judgeships, as well as all 12 of the state's seats in the House of Representatives.

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Yet the very fact that many big businesses seem so strategically like-minded a few months ahead of a legislative drop-dead day (literally) suggests a quieter brand of leadership, one wholly appropriate to the current exigent circumstance.

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The fact that a democratically elected Congress failed to enact such measures can be viewed as a democratic and legislative endorsement of one role which courts play in shaping American public policy.

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