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enabling act
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enabling act
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(Law) a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
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Noun1.enabling act - a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law
legislative act, statute - an act passed by a legislative body
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"


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1959: Hawaii becomes the nation's youngest state after Congress and President Dwight Eisenhower approve the Admission Act.
Byline: The Register-Guard Public ownership of Oregon's rivers and their banks is as old as Oregon itself: It dates to the Admission Act of 1859.
72) The county supremacists counter that these clauses are unconstitutional, and therefore invalid, because an admission act cannot confer upon Congress any extra-constitutional powers.
 
 
 
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