This victory was celebrated as Majorian's own, and the magister militum was acclaimed Emperor by the army on April 1, six miles outside Ravenna, in a place called ad Columellas, " at the Little Columns ".

Despite this, the approval of the Eastern court to Majorian's election came late, as the new Emperor was actually crowned only on December 28.

But besides these sources, which are useful also for the biographies of the other emperors, some peculiar sources are available that allow to know in some detail Majorian's life, both before and after his rise to the throne.

The Gallo-Roman aristocrat and poet Sidonius Apollinaris was an acquaintance of the Emperor and composed a panegyric that is the major source for Majorian's life up to 459.

As regards his policy, twelve laws of his have been preserved: the so-called Novellae Maioriani were included in the Breviarium that was compiled for the Visigothic king Alaric II in 506, and help to understand the problems that pressed Majorian's government.

He followed Aetius in Gallia, where he met under Aetius ' command two officers of barbarian origin who would have played an important role in Majorian's life: the Suevic-Visigoth Ricimer and the Gaul Aegidius.

He therefore opposed Valentinian's plan, and put an end to Majorian's military career, expelling him from his staff and sending him to his country estate.

Majorian's domestic policy is known thanks to some of the laws he issued, the so-called Novellae Maioriani, that were included in a collection of Roman law entitled Breviarium, requested by the 6th-century Visigothic king Alaric II to some Gallic-Roman jurists in 506.

The mints of Ravenna and Milan issued both solidi and tremisses since the beginning of Majorian's reign.

However, relations between Ricimer and Majorian soured ; when Majorian's campaign in Hispania against the Vandals proved unsuccessful Ricimer deposed him ( 461 ), murdering another Emperor, replacing him with Libius Severus.

During Majorian's reign, that corridor was annexed by the Germanic tribes now occupying Gaul, thus effectively cutting off Aegidius and his citizens from the Empire.

This was the very sort of legislation that Roosevelt himself had in mind.

The first attempt at legislation was drafted by the President of the Board of Control, Lord Ellenborough, who had previously served as Governor-General of India ( 1841 – 44 ).

He had previously supported Section 28 and other anti-gay legislation.

It was never " law ", even though, if it had been a statute or statutory provision, it might have been adopted according to the procedures for adopting legislation.

For example, following the American Revolution in 1776, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt a " reception statute " that gave legal effect to the existing body of English common law to the extent that American legislation or the Constitution had not explicitly rejected English law.

English law had already been received in the various Canadian provinces and territories by legislation and judicial decisions over the previous two centuries.

This legislation was strongly promoted by corporations which had valuable copyrights which otherwise would have expired, and has been the subject of substantial criticism on this point.

The success of the Attlee Government's welfare legislation in reducing poverty was such that, in the general election of 1950, according to Kevin Jefferys, " Labour propaganda could make much of the claim that social security had eradicated the most abject destitution of the 1930s ".

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.

In Cooley v. Board of Wardens ( 1852 ) the Court headed by Roger B. Taney had allowed the states, in the absence of federal legislation, to control those aspects of commerce that did not require a single national policy.

" Using this legal principle, many judges in Britain and the United States had voided, as an infringement of an individual's property rights, legislation that regulated common law bargains made in the marketplace between employers and their workers.

Green pointed out that the British Factory Acts had already limited the liberty of industrial capitalists and that legislation requiring compulsory schooling had circumscribed the freedom of parents.

Gutierrez's Patriotic Society Party had a small fraction of the seats in Congress and therefore depended on the support of other parties in Congress to pass legislation.

Its most infamous proponent and practitioner was, however, Adolf Hitler who praised and incorporated eugenic ideas in Mein Kampf and emulated Eugenic legislation for the sterilization of " defectives " that had been pioneered in the United States.

Although the parliamentary process had disappointed the labour movement, dominance in the Finnish Parliament and in legislation seemed to be the only true pathway to reach a more economically and socially balanced society.

The Greens benefited from increased inroads among traditionally left-wing demographics which had benefited from Green-initiated legislation in the 1998-2002 term, such as environmentalists ( Renewable Energies Act ) and LGBT groups ( Registered Partnership Law ).

Cleveland's supporters rehashed the old allegations that Blaine had corruptly influenced legislation in favor of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad and the Union Pacific Railway, later profiting on the sale of bonds he owned in both companies.

They had the right to " reserve " legislation passed by the Parliament of Australia: in other words, to ask the Colonial Office in London for an opinion before giving the Royal Assent.

With this broad coalition of supporters, Gaius held his office for two years and had much of his prepared legislation passed.

The Reichstag had the power to pass, amend or reject bills and to initiate legislation.

Many at the time felt that Salisbury had been involved in the plot to gain favour with the King and enact more stridently anti-Catholic legislation.

However, Erhard suffered a series of decisive defeats in his effort to create a free, competitive economy in 1957 ; he had to compromise on such key issues as the anti-cartel legislation.

By 1988, Hungary had developed a two-tier banking system and had enacted significant corporate legislation which paved the way for the ambitious market-oriented reforms of the post-communist years.

However, the various tiers of Australian government have shown consistently over the last two decades that they are opposed to government legislation and in favour of self regulation by industry groups.

Second-hand smoke from cigarettes has been shown to be injurious to bystanders, which has led to legislation that has banned their smoking in many workplaces and public areas.

DEHP, although most applications are shown to pose no risk when studied using recognsied methods of risk assessment, has been classified as a Category 1A reprotoxin and is now on the Annex XIV of the EU REACH ( Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals ) legislation which means that producers and users will need to submit authorisation requests to the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki to continue to use DEHP.

In fact, much of the Bill had been drafted in secrecy during the previous year, as shown in the only full length commentary on the legislation by Clive Walker ( See: The Prevention of Terrorism in British Law ( 2nd ed., Manchester University Press, 1992 ).

The Women's Aid response to this paper contains the following: We believe that legislation is still required to create a rebuttable presumption in family proceedings legislation that child contact is not awarded unless and until it can be shown to be safe, and that this should be done through a mandatory risk assessment process.

Furthermore, he did not believe that national courts were entitled to give priority to national legislation merely because it had not yet been shown to be incompatible with Community law ; if that were the case, rights conferred by national law would have greater protection than that offered to Community law rights.

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