Sentence examples for enabling acts from inspiring English sources

Utah claims there was an obligation to sell all of the national lands within its borders since state enabling acts guarantee the state 5percentt of the revenue from sales and the state was counting on full and complete liquidation of national lands when it decided to enter the Union.

Former President Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer in March, resorted to Enabling Acts four times during his 14 years in power.

Proponents of land transfers claim that state Enabling Acts require the federal government to extinguish its rights to national lands.

Fallacy 4: State Enabling Acts have been misinterpreted all these years and they actually require the transfer of national lands to the states.

Fact: Enabling Acts lay out the terms and conditions under which a new state joined the Union and they were agreed to by each state and Congress.

The Enabling Acts for most Western states contain similar language affirming that the state agrees that they "forever disclaim all right and title" to the public lands within the state.

The enabling act was drafted to allow cameras into other courts without further legislation.

Political opposition was outlawed by Hitler's notorious enabling act of 1933.

The Polish parliament passed an enabling act to speed the construction of railways, airports, hotels and stadiums stipulated by UEFA.

Congress passed a similar enabling act in October 1996 to commemorate the millennium, and this time, warships from 43 nations are coming.

The German constitution of the Weimar Republic was never abrogated under Hitler, but an enabling act passed by the Reichstag in 1933 permitted him to amend the constitution at will, in effect nullifying it.