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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That`s flexibility.

move the turbine from the ramp, south on I-205, to exit 12A and east to about 118th. ODOT maintenance crews will enact a rolling blockade holding traffic behind the moving turbine, in the right and center lanes of I-205 southbound and the left lane will remain open to traffic.

In contrast to the prescribed right to statewide referendum process, there is no affirmative right under the Maine Constitution which enables citizens to enact local ordinances by petition. This conclusion is in accordance with Maine law.... In conclusion, the city drafted the charter to provide for a citizen`s initiative process and the city can amend the charter to limit that process. The proposed amendment is in accordance with state and federal constitutions, as well as state statute.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

I wonder what marriage does to a woman. I worry about role playing and loss of confidence and having to enact weird domestic rituals in order to be a good wife.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked `a majority of the majority,` or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America`s security foremost in mind?

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Instead of addressing the real problem, which is enforcement, the City Council has chosen to enact an overly broad bill that criminalizes a cultural activity. We live in a city that is the cultural capital of the world, yet it is a crime for a young adult to carry a magic marker. What`s next -- watercolors or crayons?

Our economy is stagnant; we need to create more jobs and promote economic growth, ... We need to expand access to health care, enact a patients` bill of rights, and adopt a real prescription drug benefit for our seniors.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that`s really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change'¦ I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

It's a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.