Each year a universal health care law is introduced in the legislature and labor friendly changes to workers compensation laws are constantly sought.
The possibility that a court could ultimately unravel the law underscores just how difficult it is to enact universal health insurance a goal that had eluded presidents dating back to Theodore Roosevelt.
The rarely-used 1988 war crimes and human rights abuses law is known as a "universal jurisdiction" offence.
Samuel Issacharoff, whose specialty is Constitutional law, told me there is certainly no federal law or Constitutional provision establishing a universal right to make campaign contributions.
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Metropolitan Police detectives held Col Lama under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.
Detectives with specialist experience of war crimes arrested the officer under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.
The first was evident in the lengthy discussion justices of the U.S. Supreme Court had last week during their consideration of a Texas court case in which "universal jurisprudence" aspires to trump American law.
Instead, Universal argued, state common law applies. (As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).
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The new law, Kennedy said, might have a major impact on passing universal health care nationally.
Rather, the more economists find out about the rule of law, the more desirable it seems and the more problematic as a universal economic guide.
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