enabling act
Britishnoun
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In 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed an enabling act paving the way for the Dakotas, Montana and Washington to become states.
From Washington Times • Feb. 22, 2021
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed an enabling act paving the way for Virginia’s western counties to become the state of West Virginia, which took place in June 1863.
From Washington Times • Dec. 31, 2020
Each adopted a proposed constitution without waiting for an enabling act, Hawaii in 1950 and Alaska in 1956.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
If and when Congress chooses, it passes an enabling act, an act directing the people of the territory to frame a proposed State constitution.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
Granting the argument that the organic act was in effect an enabling act, then the territorial legislature had power to authorize the Lecompton Convention and also to order it work submitted to a vote.
From Life of Stephen A. Douglas by Gardner, William
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