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Reenactment :: Reenactment (n.) The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.

Institution :: Institution (n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity..

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..

Enactor :: Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.

Nomothetical :: Nomothetical (a.) Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power..

Enactive :: Enactive (a.) Having power to enact or establish as a law.

Ordinance :: Ordinance (n.) A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance..

Lawgiver :: Lawgiver (n.) One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.

Positive :: Positive (a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.

Rule :: Rule (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket..

Reenact :: Reenact (v. t.) To enact again.

Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..

Lammaking :: Lammaking (n.) The enacting of laws; legislation.

Dysnomy :: Dysnomy (n.) Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law..

Penal :: Penal (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code..

Canon :: Canon (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority..

Constitutive :: Constitutive (a.) Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law..

Plebiscitum :: Plebiscitum (n.) A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate..

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