When a bill emerges, and the president signs it into law, Democrats will hail the most significant social legislation America has enacted for decades.
In his crowded career and eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer, caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial, and linguistic currents.
Behind the neoclassical columns of the Supreme Court this week, the nine supreme justices of a nation of laws not men, you understand convened for a solemn hearing of the arguments for and against striking down the most far-reaching social legislation Congress has enacted for decades.
But two years earlier, Congress had enacted authorization for President Lyndon B. Johnson to use whatever military force was needed in Vietnam.
Although New Hampshire had enacted Operation Recognize for this purpose, Mr. Norman discovered that he could not obtain a diploma for the veteran under existing Connecticut statutes, although he managed to obtain an honorary diploma before the man died.
By 1956, forty-two states, including California, and more than two thousand county or city governments had enacted loyalty oaths for public employees.
Contrast the US, where, by 2005 more than 20 states had enacted laws criminalising women for behaviours in pregnancy considered harmful to the fetus, for example, drinking excessive alcohol.
For 15 minutes, Mr. Pataki spoke passionately about how the state had enacted prescription drug subsidies for elderly New Yorkers.
Farid Niyazov, the spokesman for the Kyrgyz government, said Kyrgyz officials visited the camps in Uzbekistan to explain that they had enacted a simpler procedure for confirming citizenship and replacing lost passports that would be in effect only before the referendum.
This was the first time China had enacted special copyright protections for a domestic film.
