Similar arguments have been used to support and attack laws requiring voters to show government-approved photo-ID in order to vote.

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He admits that trade unions had hoped to use the charter to attack the Thatcher labour laws, such as one barring secondary picketing, but says that is now impossible.

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The German and American governments are leading an attack on bank-secrecy laws in tax havens.

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