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

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.

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..

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

Establish :: Establish (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain..

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..

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

Purview :: Purview (n.) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with Be it enacted, as distinguished from the preamble..

Veto :: Veto (v. t.) To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Constitution :: Constitution (n.) The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation..

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

Rescind :: Rescind (v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment..

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

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

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