The phrase "act of legislation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a formal decision or law that has been enacted by a legislative body.
Example: "The recent act of legislation aims to improve environmental protections across the country."
Alternatives: "legislative act" or "law enactment".
Moving safety and environmental responsibilities wholly out of the Minerals Management Service and the Department of Interior would require an act of legislation or a restructuring by the president.
These facts, such as an act of legislation or a judicial decision, are the sources of law conventionally identified as such in each and every modern legal system.
It seems to confirm that he is no conventionalist, since that view involves treating all recognised laws as equal while on Thrasymachus' account not every ruler or act of legislation counts as the real thing.
"The same congress, shortly afterwards, evidently thinking it unwise, and perhaps unsafe, to leave so important a declaration of rights to depend upon an ordinary act of legislation, which might be repealed by any subsequent congress, framed the fourteenth amendment of the constitution," the justices wrote.
The Bush tax cuts refer to two acts of legislation passed during the presidency of George W. Bush that effectively reduced the amount of federal income tax individual Americans paid.
Some of these, a President Trump would be able to reverse just as quickly because they continue to rest only on executive action for legitimacy rather harder-to-reverse acts of legislation.
By acts of legislation and appropriation, Congress can try to fasten on the executive departments its notions of the urgency of the world crisis and of the government's responsibility for the common welfare, but it cannot really do more than pass out money and order that the money be spent within a stated period.
MIKE BROST Shorewood, Wis., July 3, 2012 Although it is regrettable that most major acts of legislation now require a filibuster-proof 60 percent vote in the Senate, the idea that a "supermajority" should be required to make radical changes in American democracy does have some merit.
By these acts of legislation, for the first time, Russia formally intervened in the Commonwealth's constitutional affairs.
Those laws are considered one of the most repugnant acts of legislation ever passed by Congress and can hardly stand as a proper model for current legislation.
It has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction beyond our comprehension, understanding, and unclarified by our laws; giving its assent to its acts of legislation pretended to be serving the common good of the American people when it only serves special interests at the expense of that common good.
