The enabling act was a piece of legislation by which a legislature grants an entity which depends on it for authorization or legitimacy to take a certain action(s). Legislation (or " Statutory law " is law which has been promulgated (or " Enacted quot by a Legislature or other Governing It is important not to confuse enabling acts from different times and places, since their effect varies widely.

Contents 1 In Germany 2 In Venezuela 3 In the United Kingdom 4 In the United States 5 References

In Germany

In the German Weimar Republic, an Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz in German) was a law passed by the Reichstag with a two-thirds majority, by which the government was authorized to legislate without the consent of the Reichstag. The term Weimar Republic ( ˈvaɪmarɐ repuˈbliːk is used by historians to signify the democratic and Republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933 The Enabling Act ( in German) was passed by the Reichstag ( Germany 's parliament on March 23, 1933 and signed The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. The Reichstag ( German for "Imperial Diet " was the Parliament of the Holy Roman Empire, the North German Confederation, These special powers would remain in effect for the specified time. This is to be distinguished from the provisions of Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which allowed the President to legislate by decree in times of emergency, subject to the veto of the Reichstag. Article 48 was an article in the constitution of the Weimar Republic of Germany ( 1919 &ndash 1933) that allowed the Chancellor to rule For a detailed discussion of the English translation of Reich, see Reich. An Enabling Act was only supposed to be used in times of extreme emergency. Only two Enabling Acts were ever passed:

• the first Enabling Act was in force in 1923-24, when the government used an Enabling Act to combat hyperinflation. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Certain figures in this article use Scientific notation for readability
• the second Enabling Act, passed on March 23, 1933, was the second stepping-stone after the Reichstag Fire Decree through which Adolf Hitler obtained dictatorial powers using largely legal means. The Enabling Act ( in German) was passed by the Reichstag ( Germany 's parliament on March 23, 1933 and signed Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung is the common name of the Order of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State issued by German president Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately A dictatorship is usually defined as an autocratic Form of government in which the Government is ruled by a Dictator. The formal name of the Enabling Act was Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich ("Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the State"). See also Folk (disambiguation, Volk (disambiguation Folk is one of the Germanic roots that mean "(of the people" or "our (ˈraɪk German ˈʁaɪç is a German Loanword cognate with the English Reign, Region, and Rich, but used most to designate It carried a four-year sunset clause (and would also have lost force should another government have been appointed) but was renewed in 1937, 1941 and 1944. In Public policy, a sunset provision or sunset clause is a provision in a Statute or Regulation that terminates or repeals all or portions of In contrast to the Enabling Act of 1923, this Act covered changes to the constitution, excepting only the existence of the Reichstag, the Reichsrat and the office of President.

In Venezuela

In Venezuela, enabling laws allowing the President to rule by decree in selected matters have been granted to Carlos Andrés Pérez (1974),^[1] Jaime Lusinchi (1984)^[2] and Ramón José Velásquez (1993)^[3]. Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the Rule by decree is a style of governance allowing quick unchallenged creation of law by a single person or group and is used primarily by Dictators and Absolute monarchs Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (born October 27, 1922) best known as CAP, was President of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again Jaime Lusinchi (born 1924 is a Venezuelan politician who was the President of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989 Ramón José Velásquez (born November 28 1916) is a Venezuelan Political figure. In mid 2000 a similar law enabled Hugo Chávez to legislate on issues related to the economy, reorganization of government ministries, and crime for one year. Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (ˈuɰo rafaˈel ˈtʃaβ̞es ˈfɾias (born July 28 1954 is the current President of Venezuela. Chávez did not take advantage of this act until shortly before its expiration, when he passed 49 decrees in rapid succession, many of them highly controversial. ^{[4] [5][6]}

In 2007, a new enabling act was requested by President Chávez which, if granted, would give the president the ability to rule by decree over certain economic, social, territorial, defense, and scientific matters as well as control over transportation, regulations for popular participation, and rules for governing state institutions. ^[7] The referendum, which would have granted Chávez this power, however, was not passed. Chávez accepted the outcome of the referendum, much to the relief of concerned parties in both Venezuela and other countries, most notably the United States.

In the United Kingdom

In the 1930s, both Sir Stafford Cripps and Clement Attlee advocated an enabling act to allow a future Labour government to pass socialist legislation which would not be amended by normal parliamentary procedures and the House of Lords. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps ( 24 April 1889 &ndash 21 April 1952) was a British Labour politician and Chancellor Clement Richard Attlee 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC ( 3 January 1883 &ndash 8 October 1967 The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" According to Cripps, his "Planning and Enabling Act" would not be able to be repealed, and the orders made by the government using the act would not be allowed discussion in Parliament. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories ^[8] Cripps also suggested measures against the monarchy, but quickly dropped the idea. TalkCommonewalth realm.--> The monarchy ^[9]

In 1966, Oswald Mosley advocated a government of national unity drawn from "the professions, from science, from the unions and the managers, from businessmen, the housewives, from the services, from the universities, and even from the best of the politicians". Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 &ndash 3 December 1980 was a British Politician, known principally as the founder of the British This coalition would be a "hard centre" oriented one which would also get Parliament to pass an Enabling Act in order to stop "time-wasting obstructionism of present procedure", as Mosley described it. He also claimed that Parliament would always retain the power to dismiss his government by vote of censure if its policies failed or if it attempted to "override basic British freedoms". Not to be confused with Censor, Censer or Sensor. Censure (ˈsɛnʃəɹ is a process by which a formal Reprimand ^[10]

In early 2006, the highly controversial yet little-publicised Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill was introduced to Parliament. The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c 51 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted in 2006 to replace the Regulatory Reform Act This Bill, if enacted into law, would have enabled Government ministers to amend or repeal any legislation (including the L&RR Bill itself), subject to vague and highly subjective restraints, by decree and without recourse to Parliament. The Bill was variously been described as the "Abolition of Parliament Bill" (The Times) and ". . . of first-class constitutional significance. . . [and would] markedly alter the respective and long standing roles of minister and Parliament in the legislative process" (House of Lords Constitutional Committee, reported in ^[11]. The Bill is, in essence, an Enabling Act in all but name.

After some amendment by the government and Lords, the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill received Royal Assent on 8 November 2006. The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c 51 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted in 2006 to replace the Regulatory Reform Act The granting of Royal Assent is the formal method by which a constitutional monarch completes the legislative process of Lawmaking by formally assenting to an Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ^[12] Amendments included removing its ability to modify itself or the Human Rights Act 1998; most of the other modifications were much more subjectively defined. The Human Rights Act 1998 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 9 November 1998 and mostly came into force

In the United States

An enabling act, in reference to the admission of new states into the Union, is legislation passed by Congress authorizing the people of a territory to frame a constitution. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses United States territory is any extent of Region under the Jurisdiction of the federal Government of the United States, including all A constitution is a system for government often Codified as a written document that establishes the rules and principles of an autonomous political entity The act also lays down the requirements that must be met as a prerequisite to statehood. These Acts have usually been titled "An Enabling Act for a State of (Name)".

Enabling acts of the United States include:

• Alaska Statehood Act
• Hawaii Admission Act
• Enabling Act of 1802, for the formation of Ohio from the Northwest Territory
• Enabling Act of 1889, for the formation of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington
• Enabling Act of 1910, for the admission of Arizona^[13]
• Official Name and Status History of the several States and U.S. Territories, TheGreenPapers. The Alaska Statehood Act was signed by President Dwight D Eisenhower on July 7, 1958, allowing Alaska to become the 49th U The Admission Act, formally An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union ( enacted 1959-03-18) is a statute The Enabling Act of 1802 was passed on April 30, 1802 by the Seventh Congress of the United States. Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads For the Canadian territory see Northwest Territories. For the northwestern corner of the Lower 48 see Northwestern United States. The Enabling Act of 1889 ( chs 180 276-284 enacted 1889-02-22) is a United States statute that enabled North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. South Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. com (listed)

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