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No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God. -- William Blackstone
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General. -- Dick Thornburgh
As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act. -- Sue Kelly
Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to assert its authority when presidents decide to send American soldiers into harm's way. -- Charles B. Rangel
Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities. -- Jim Gerlach
With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level. -- Sue Kelly
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service. -- Arthur Capper
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it. -- Jeb Hensarling
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. -- Roger Wicker
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. -- Martin Van Buren
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! -- Arthur Hertzberg
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal. -- Thomas Perez
By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. -- John Lydon
Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language. -- Mark Doty
Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human. -- Carl Sagan
I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment. -- Demetri Martin
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God -- William Blackstone
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. -- William Henry Maule
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. -- Norman O. Brown
It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. -- Calvin Coolidge
Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good. -- Robin Williams
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. -- Robin G. Collingwood
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law. -- William Jennings Bryan
In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse. -- Theodor Adorno

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