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Modern Legislators and Statute Authors

Lawmakers whose name is attached to a specific enacted statute rather than to judicial opinions or legal scholarship. Belongs here: Michael Oxley and Paul Sarbanes, the United States legislators whose names identify the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Does not belong here: a judge, scholar or theorist, classified by that role instead.

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A legislator, or lawmaker, is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature. 1
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A legislator, or lawmaker, is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature.
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