enactment

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The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.

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Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. Roger Wicker

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God. William Blackstone

It is my belief that action under this section should be suspended until the Congress can reconsider the entire question in the light of the experience that has been developed since its enactment. Calvin Coolidge

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. William Henry Maule

Value has its own logic. In the constitutional state that is most clearly recognizable in the enactment of its constitution. Carl Schmitt

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. Martin Van Buren

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