Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maintain that the present hypocritical attitude toward the whole question of prohibition would be greatly relieved by having Congress fix a maximum alcoholic content based upon science and sound reasoning, thereafter leaving every state to enact any statute it pleases with regard to regulation of the traffic in light wines and beer within that alcoholic content, so that the state that desires light wines and beer within the alcoholic content prescribed by Congress may also have what it desires...
...when told that the veto had been issued. He said, without surprise: "I regret that the President has seen fit to veto the adjusted compensation measure. I am not familiar with his reasons. However, the ex-service men and women look with confidence to both Houses of Congress to enact this just measure into...
...association, as I understand it, gathered together for the better enforcement of the law. Now just what is it we mean by the law? . . . It is very easy to enact legislation. We have State Legislatures and the National Congress, that each year put upon the statute books of our country thousands upon thousands of different enactments undertaking to regulate and control our conduct. . . . I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. It is a maxim of our institutions that the Government does not make...
John J. Pershing: "Many months ago Secretary of War Weeks asked Congress to enact a law to retain me on the active service list after I reach the retirement age next September. No action has been taken. F. W. Wile, Washington correspondent, called this another example of Congressional inefficiency...
...that, in the even of a declaration of war, the property, as well as the persons, lives, and liberties of all citizens, shall be subject to conscription for the defense of the nation. The plan proposes that it shall be duty of the President to propose and Congress to enact the legislation necessary to carry such conscription through. If this is made a constitutional requirement, the whole nation could be set to work to attain national victory at one stroke...