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enabling act

n. a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law [syn: enabling clause]

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Enabling act

An enabling act is a piece of legislation by which a legislative body grants an entity which depends on it for authorization or legitimacy of power to take certain actions. For example, enabling acts often establish government agencies to carry out specific government policies in a modern nation. The effects of enabling acts from different times and places vary widely.

Usage examples of "enabling act".

Clinton railroaded Congress into passing the draconian legislation in the same manner that Hitler stampeded the German people into passing the Enabling Act.

Just as they'd done in March of 1933, when the Enabling Act gave Hitler dictatorial authority over the nation.

That's more or less the gist of what the Enabling Act of '24 says.