Enactment
[ɪ'næktm(ə)nt;e-] or [ɪ'næktmənt]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Marge
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Enacting.[2]. Law, act, decree, edict, ordinance.
Editor: Solomon
Examples
- Then we have made an enactment not only possible but in the highest degree beneficial to the State? Plato. The Republic.
- Human life does not occur in a vacuum, nor is nature a mere stage setting for the enactment of its drama (ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Agreed; and we may agree also in thinking that these, like all our previous enactments, are very good. Plato. The Republic.
- Minute enactments are superfluous in good states, and are useless in bad ones. Plato. The Republic.
- Then are we to impose all our enactments on men and none of them on women? Plato. The Republic.
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