Sentence examples for duly enacted from inspiring English sources
The Democrats duly enacted their part, the cuts.
Professor Schuck suggests that universities should not "place extra obstacles" before laws that were "duly enacted".
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office issued a statement saying: "As is our duty, our office will provide for a vigorous defense of the state's duly enacted laws".
If Congress leaves the debt ceiling at a level inconsistent with duly enacted spending and tax laws, the president has no choice but to ignore it.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy mused that the procedures created by Section 5, which upend the usual presumption that a duly enacted state law is valid, may no longer make sense.
"It is not our role nor within our province to opine upon or adjudicate the constitutionality of duly enacted statutes," wrote Lynn H. Gibson, the general counsel of the accountability office.
The nadir in rabble-rousing occurred on the House floor when Republican members cheered hecklers interrupting debate as law was being enacted by a duly elected majority.
And the first thing that a conservative confronted with such a decision might be expected to ask is: what justifies a man in a black robe in striking down a law enacted by the duly elected representatives of the people of California, a law enacted (in one form or another) by most if not all other state legislatures?
King's Amendment could nullify (or at least render toothless) both of these democratically enacted laws and, according to the House sign-on letter, an "untold number of [other] duly-enacted state laws and regulations affecting agricultural Production".
As you know, the Department has a longstanding practice of defending the constitutionality of duly-enacted statutes if reasonable arguments can be made in their defense, a practice that accords the respect appropriately due to a coequal branch of government.
Thus, although a prosecutor can decide not to press charges against particular cocaine smugglers, the Executive Branch cannot casually decide to stop enforcing duly-enacted federal drug laws altogether.
