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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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.

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