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Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress..

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..

Vote :: Vote (v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution..

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

Ultra Vires :: Ultra vires () Beyond power; transcending authority; -- a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.

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

Legislate :: Legislate (v. i.) To make or enact a law or laws.

Enacture :: Enacture (n.) Enactment; resolution.

Parliamentary :: Parliamentary (a.) Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act..

Lammaking :: Lammaking (a.) Enacting laws; legislative.

Legislation :: Legislation (n.) The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.

Enacting :: Enacting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enac.

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..

Strength :: Strength (n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument..

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..

Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..

Corporate :: Corporate (a.) Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town..

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

Enact :: Enact (n.) Purpose; determination.

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

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