Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tendency to enact uncertain laws seems to be increasing, and, what is still worse, the people tolerate it and there are but faint demands for improvement. Intent on some immediate exigency, and with slight consideration of the larger issues, we create autocratic power by giving administrative officials who can threaten indictment the opportunities of criminal statutes, without any appropriate definition of crime...
...Extravagance must be curbed; and in order to accomplish this without disrupting the governmental organization, some system of appropriating moneys for national expenditures must be devised. We have been contemplating a budget system for many years, and the time has come when the public interest makes it imperative to enact legislation that will bring about this improvement in our financial system...
...there is no real and complete coordination between the different Departments and the Committee of Congress. The whole system is fundamentally wrong, and in these days of high cost of government, an earnest effort should be made to change it, and it is the duty of Congress to enact legislation to that...