enabling act

(noun)

A piece of legislation by which a legislative body grants an entity which depends on it for authorization or legitimacy the power to take certain actions.

Related Terms

Examples of enabling act in the following topics:

  • Independent Agencies

    • The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is an example of an executive agency, and acts as an outpost of the executive government to regulate communications technology and media in the U.S.
    • It acts as the primary human intelligence provider for the federal government.
    • Instead, these agencies are generally justified by acts of Congress designed to manage delineated government functions, such as the maintenance of infrastructure and regulation of commerce.
    • Congress passes statutes called enabling acts that define the scope of agencies' authority.

  • Federalism and the Civil War: The Dred Scott Decision and Nullification

    • In 1836, Scott was relocated to Fort Snelling, Wisconsin, where slavery was prohibited under the Wisconsin Enabling Act.

  • The Civil Rights Acts

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
    • It also enabled the U.S.
    • The Civil Rights Act was followed by the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Johnson in 1965.
    • The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B.
    • Compare and contrast the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act

  • Health Care Reform

    • In 2003 Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act , which President George W.
    • Part of this legislation included filling gaps in prescription-drug coverage left by the Medicare Secondary Payer Act that was enacted in 1980.
    • The system preserves private insurance and private health care providers and provides more subsidies to enable the poor to buy insurance.
    • The Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax (FICA) is raised to 2.35% from 1.45% for individuals earning more than $200,000 and married couples with incomes over $250,000.
    • Explain the elements and provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Act and discuss the history of health-care reform in the 20th century

  • The Nomination Process

    • For example, while the legislative (Congress) has the power to create law, the executive (president) can veto any legislation; an act that can be overridden by Congress.
    • Acts of Congress have established 13 courts of appeals (also called "circuit courts") with appellate jurisdiction over different regions of the country.
    • For example, Supreme Court Justice Souter retired in 2009 and Justice Stevens in 2010, enabling President Obama to nominate - and the Democratic controlled Senate to confirm - their successors.

  • Health Care Policy

    • The resulting economy of scale in providing health care services appears to enable a much tighter grip on costs.
    • Single payer health care poster about the United States National Health Care Act.

  • British Taxes and Colonial Grievances

    • The Sugar Act of 1764 reduced the taxes imposed by the Molasses Act, but at the same time strengthened the collection of the tax.
    • Following the Quartering Act, Parliament passed one of the most infamous pieces of legislation: the Stamp Act.
    • The Stamp Act Congress met in October 1765, petitioning the King and Parliament to repeal the act before it went into effect at the end of the month.
    • The act faced vehement opposition throughout the colonies.
    • Parliament repealed the Stamp Act but passed the Declaratory Act in its wake.

  • The PATRIOT and Freedom Acts

    • The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act), also commonly known as the Patriot Act, is an Act of the U.S.
    • The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act's expanded law enforcement powers can be applied.
    • These included the Protecting the Rights of Individuals Act, the Benjamin Franklin True Patriot Act, and the Security and Freedom Ensured Act (SAFE), none of which passed.
    • The USA PATRIOT Act has generated a great deal of controversy since its enactment.
    • The USA FREEDOM Act ("Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act"), more commonly known as the Freedom Act, is a U.S. law that was enacted on June 2, 2015, the day after the PATRIOT Act expired.

  • Results of the 1946 Act

    • The Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 was a statute enacted by the United States Congress to reduce the influence of lobbyists.
    • The Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 was specifically crafted to deal with this issue.
    • The provisions of the act define lobbying in the following manner:
    • The Court upheld the act's constitutionality, but it also narrowed the scope and application of the act.
    • Summarize the contents of the 1946 Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act and reactions to it

  • The Act of Organizing: Constitutive Decisions

    • Variation three, $O \rightarrow X+Y$ , refers to the act of organizing things in a certain way.
    • The act of organizing is thus a super wholesale approach to decision and action.
    • In this sense, also, the act of organizing can be regarded as a wholesale or indirect approach to rule-making and, thus, a super wholesale or doubly indirect approach to deciding how to act in specific cases.
    • The American Constitutional Convention of 1787 was one of history's most dramatic examples of acting to organize.