Although the Socialists opposed Mr Sarkozy's plan to adopt a balanced-budget amendment in the constitution, Mr Hollande promises to pass a golden rule of his own (as an ordinary law).
But voters seem pleased that an era of impunity is ending: 72% told one poll that they approved of treating Mr Chirac as an ordinary citizen before the law.
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But Avvo was determined to disrupt the status quo in the legal industry and make the law more accessible to ordinary consumers.
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For the first time, the law will also allow ordinary Americans to go online and invest in the startups and small businesses they believe in through crowdfunding platforms.
Their first duty is to serve the people who are paying their salaries, so long as they stay within the law and the canons of ordinary decency.
The solicitor, on the other end of the telephone conference acting for the local authority, who will know the law and what is relevant and the ordinary citizen may not.
"We take great care to ensure that these sales respect both the spirit and the letter of the law while trying to make sure that ordinary people are not deprived of basic foodstuffs, " Cargill said in a statement.
"Much of the controversy about abortion is really stimulated by the interest groups on both sides of the political question, rather than by ordinary Americans, " said David Garrow, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and a longtime Supreme Court scholar.
For parents, teachers, community leaders, law enforcement officers, elected officials, ordinary citizens, and others concerned about the health and safety of our young people, the Strategy is a valuable tool that not only informs but also can serve as a catalyst to spark positive change.
For the ordinary citizen, it may have maintained a semblance of law and order.
Moreover, law enforcement has been authorized for decades in ordinary criminal cases to subpoena library records (along with any other business records).
One reason night-time deliveries were allowed to disturb the sleep of ordinary Roman citizens is simply that the city's law-makers, safely cocooned in their Palatine palaces, had no experience of living in such bleak circumstances themselves.
Assets held outside of retirement plans enjoy capital gains tax treatment (under current law) that is generally much more favorable than the ordinary income tax rate.
Also on the table: ending agriculture subsidies, increasing the gas tax, taxing capital gains and interest as ordinary income, reducing some of the spending in the new health care law and freezing pay for government workers.
In the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, the ordinary courts, which handle criminal cases and private lawsuits, also deal with administrative law cases.
The courts' increasingly frequent and wide use of the law of contempt is cause for grave concern--not only to journalists, politicians and ordinary citizens, but also to the legal profession itself.
"What we are calling on is for the Scottish government to change housing law so that if you incur 'bedroom tax' arrears that should be treated as an ordinary debt but not allow you to be evicted, " he suggested.
Under German tax law investors in films must deduct 100% of their investment up front, then report license receipts as ordinary income.
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