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The 1,062 laws subjected to a royal veto in the UK

2 点作者 etrevino超过 4 年前

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jfengel超过 4 年前
&quot;Subjected to&quot; here is a bit weaselly. It suggests that they were vetoed, or threatened with a veto. In fact, it&#x27;s just the number of laws that had to be reviewed, of which the vast majority were presumably accepted without comment.<p>The number of laws where this may have been relevant is, in the words of the article, &quot;at least four&quot;. That&#x27;s so out of keeping with &quot;1,062 laws subjected to...&quot; that I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s false.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just a difference between UK and US English. But to me, even just saying &quot;subject to&quot; would be less wrong. It&#x27;s the difference between active and passive voice. Using the past tense somehow implies a thing that was actively done and is now over. In practice it was more a matter of nothing being done most of the time, and that&#x27;s more timeless.<p>It&#x27;s not that there&#x27;s no &quot;there&quot; there, but the &quot;there&quot; appears to apply to &quot;at least four&quot; laws (none of which are really all that significant). The possibility of more is interesting, but having to inflate the significance suggests that it actually isn&#x27;t.
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