Enactment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENACTMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the passing of a bill into law
• the process of passing legislation
• a law that is passed
• an instance of acting something out
• the controlled expression and acceptance of repressed emotions or impulses in behaviour during therapy.
• 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.
• the passing of a law by a legislative body
• a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
• acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of enacting; the state of being enacted

Words related to ENACTMENT

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Words that contain ENACTMENT

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How to use ENACTMENT in a sentence

• An attempt is being made to compass their ruin both by legislative enactment and administrative action.
• For this reason piracy continued its depredations long after the enactment of severe laws for its suppression.
• The enactment which established the restrictive geographical line was acquiesced in rather than approved by the States of the Union.
• A well-considered enactment to this end would, we are convinced, be quite as advantageous to the manufacturers as to the producers of books.
• X That too was a happy enactment, in my opinion, by which Lycurgus provided for the continual cultivation of virtue, even to old age.
• I think that anything which any one forces another to do without persuasion, whether by enactment or not, is violence rather than law.
• But do we reflect that Vermont is half marble, and that Lake Superior can send us bronze enough for regiments of statues? I go back to my first plan of a prohibitory enactment.
• More than ten years had elapsed since the enactment of the Dingley bill and the position of many industries had been altered with the course of time.
• The incident, so eloquent to Rachel and Kenkenes, had been so swift and subtile in its enactment, that only the quick eye of Hotep detected it.
• It will be observed that, in this enactment of Solon, the existing government is ranked merely as one of the contending parties.
• This enactment was only passed after several persons had signified their intention to sue the Government.
• The whole creation was esteemed a temporary theatre for the enactment of the sublime drama of the fall and redemption of man.
• It existed in the colonial period by custom, as over the whole country, but subject to be regulated or abolished by simple legislative enactment.
• Moreover, as there were many important interests involved in his administration, he may have been led to conclude that the time was not yet arrived for so bold an enactment.
• A further enactment forbade any constable under the provisions of this hill from voting at an election, or exercising any other employment.
• It became necessary to pass some enactment calculated to hold Irish outrage in check.
• I am inclined to think that the opinion of a man who from 1765 to 1780 worked with that enactment hanging over his head is worth considering.
• Southern men were the leading authors of that enactment, and the public opinion of their descendants, stronger than the law, fully sustained it.
• It has never once been guilty of the weakness of yielding for a moment to the virtuous impulse that would even contemplate the enactment of a copyright law.
• This infamous enactment was intended to cut from under the feet of the Commune any popular support it still retained.
• In North Carolina, even more than in most of the colonies, the system of Negro slavery was long controlled by custom rather than by legal enactment.
• But further, this idea, if well founded, would enable the States to defeat the whole constitutional provision by a general enactment.
• That law settles for ever, with a strength beyond all terms of human enactment, that slavery cannot exist in California or New Mexico.
• Party lines were, at the time of the enactment of the Licinian Law, strongly marked in Rome.
• Now Caesar secured the enactment of the laws, and bound the people by an oath to the perpetual observance of them, and he required the same oath from the senate.
• The government has contributed to the same end, through the enactment of laws protecting those inventors who secure patents.
• A Federal loan was proposed to raise money to lend to the inhabitants of San Francisco to rebuild after the earthquake, but failed of enactment.
• It is the most important, because it is the first step, and the enforcement and interpretation of laws depend upon their enactment.
• Instinctively though, he felt that this was not the first time of its enactment.
• In order that slaves might not be secreted in vessels, the slave-holders of North Carolina had procured the enactment of a law requiring all vessels coming North to be smoked.
• On this infamous enactment, combined with a corrupted popular sentiment, the pro-slavery side depended for success.
• The enactment contains some improvements in our criminal procedure.
• Our experience and knowledge of any existing deficiencies ought to make the enactment of a complete pension code possible.
• This was a common law privilege, independently of any constitutional enactment.
• Why, sir, from the first enactment in 1789, down to the bill before us, there is no such principle in our legislation.

Similar words containing ACTM without suffix ent and without prefix en

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