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Example sentences for "legislative enactment"

  • Columbus, then a complete wilderness, was in 1812 made the capital by legislative enactment.

  • In 1794 the town of Charleston was established by legislative enactment.

  • In that year Covington was established by legislative enactment, and named in honor of General Covington.

  • The Socialist, on the contrary, has a definite preconceived plan of legislative enactment.

  • The village of East Troy, in section 36, has recently been annexed by legislative enactment to the city of River Falls.

  • The county was attached for judicial purposes to Chisago until 1872, at which date the county seat, located at Chengwatana by legislative enactment, was changed by a popular vote to Pine City.

  • In 1851, by legislative enactment, the name Elisabeth was changed to Prescott.

  • Any and all abuses practiced by railroad corporations can be corrected by legislative enactment, unless we admit that the creature is greater than the creator.

  • The states would not have the power to redress any abuses of the charter privileges granted to these companies, either by legislative enactment or by judicial decisions.

  • All the essential principles that enter into the question of obligation, in the case of a private contract, or a legislative enactment, enter equally into the question of the obligation of a contract agreed to by the whole mass of the people.

  • If it was almost impossible to carry a question from the stage of popular discussion to that of legislative enactment, it was a very simple matter to elect presidents and congressmen who should see to a proper distribution of places.

  • The difficulty of procuring from the people of the United States an unequivocal decision upon any political question, and of expressing that decision in legislative enactment, is familiar to every student of our history.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ever have; first wife; good bread; great might; hand dealer; inches thick; legislative action; legislative acts; legislative authority; legislative bodies; legislative body; legislative enactment; legislative power; legislative union; legislative vote; long syllable; military glory; more correct; more prudent; physical strength; raise armies; second floor; seen later; the salt; then upon; though still