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Synonyms for lawmaker

a maker of laws

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The Institute will also implement the practice of the international assessment of bills into the national law-making process by involving foreign specialists.
However, Welsh language campaigners Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg argue that the law-making institution should be called Senedd.
Crucially, the commodification of legal entitlements is associated with the separation of rights from their formative processes: It is the insulation of the output from the law-making process that enables economists to treat legal entitlements as "commodities." (2) Yet the commodification comes at the price of separating substantive legal rules from the law-making process.
The theme selected by the editors, international law-making, is wholly appropriate, given Klabbers' many contributions to scholarly debates on this theme, particularly his increasing alarm at the rise of soft law, and the increasing informality of international law in general.
She discusses the law-making of such management and its implementation, focusing on problems associated with a traditional single-species fisheries management approach, within the legal framework of high-seas fisheries as set out in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
"With its newly enhanced law-making powers, the Assembly should be more relevant to people's lives than ever before, yet few of our deliberations manage to break out of the Cardiff Bay bubble."
THE First Minister of Wales will today take the next step to devolving new law-making powers.
The move follows the Yes vote in the referendum last week which will give Wales primary law-making powers.
We now know that, before next May, Wales will go to the ballot box for a referendum on whether the National Assembly should have further law-making powers.
Fiona Hall, who has been backing efforts to secure more open decision-taking, has criticised Tony Blair for leading the fight to keep secretive EU law-making.
The article by Kristen Boon published in issue 2 of the same volume is entitled "Legislative Reform in Post-conflict Zones: Jus Post Bellum and the Contemporary Occupant' s Law-Making Powers," not "Legislative Reform in Post-conflict Zones: Just Post Bellum and the Contemporary Occupant's Law-Making Powers" as identified on the cover page.
One problem is reportedly that the Danish constitution sets the law-making power with the King and the parliament, while this would be overruled by the EU constitution and make the EU a direct law-making power in the country.
Would this require that conservative people no longer run for office or that pro-Constitution lobbyists remove themselves from participating in the law-making process?