But the legislation necessary to give the public the right to take legal action is extremely complicated and would take considerable time to draft, promulgate and enact.
In 1709, the King promulgated the Copyright Act which announced that all the books published in the country should turn in a copy to the Cambridge University Library, and the amount of the collections soared.
These pillars were in fact a sort of public address system: their purpose was to carry, carved on them, proclamations or edicts from Ashoka, which could then be promulgated all over India and beyond.