Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Interest promptly centered upon whether the new regime would attempt to enact strong arm prohibition in place of the highly successful "Stockholm system" of liquor control inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Ivan Bratt, which was extended throughout Sweden in 1919 as the "Bratt system...
...states, and not the nation or the local community, are the units which enact and enforce the mass of laws which aim at the protection of public order, peace and safety...
Later in the week despatches reported that the Mexican Government had sent a note in reply, reiterating its former position that Mexico will stand pat on what she believes to be her rights to enact and enforce this legislation...
...first action after being declared absolute dictator was to order Parliament to enact a compulsory arbitration law. Violators will be punished by fine or imprisonment or both. Imprisonment to an Italian is most abhorrent, as he knows the horrible condition of the various Italian prisons. Therefore he will work for underpay and under any conditions rather than go to prison...
...There is nothing in the Articles of War enacted by Congress which prohibits freedom of speech, and the same Constitution which gives Congress power to enact those articles forbids its passing any law abridging that freedom. The right of freedom of speech is undoubtedly guaranteed by the Constitution, and if the 96th Article of War abridges that right, it is unconstitutional and void. It becomes a question, then, whether the Army and the War Department are governed by the Constitution, or whether they are at liberty to ignore its' provisions...