Enabling Legislation

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“...for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”
—Bible: New Testament, Philippians 2:13.

“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)