enactments
Laws officially passed
Enactments are laws or statutes that have been formally passed by a legislative body: recent congressional enactments on healthcare.
The term also covers the process of passing such legislation.
In a separate sense, enactments are performances or reenactments—the acting out of events or roles: historical enactments of Civil War battles.
Carrying out a task
- stagingPreparing for presentation
- portrayalDepiction of someone
- dramatizationConverting events to performance
- interpretationAssigned meaning
scene · monologue · dialogue · script · rehearsal · costume · troupe · director
Enacted written rule
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- billAmount owed, written
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- amendmentChange to official text
regulation · codification · provision · clause · ratification · promulgation · bylaw · charter
Of documented times
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- reenactorsPeople who recreate past events
- costumesClothes for assuming roles
- uniformsStandardized institutional clothing
authenticity · Gettysburg · encampment · musket · cavalry · infantry · commemoration · recreation
Acting out characters
- scenarioPostulated event sequence
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- exerciseActivity for fitness
- mockScornful imitation or fake
drill · practice · demonstration · modeling · trial · walkthrough · rehearsal · tabletop
Formal event marking occasions
- riteCeremonial act or practice
- observanceKeeping of customs
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- symbolicRepresenting through signs
procession · liturgy · sacrament · commemoration · celebration · custom · festival · initiation
performance
Carrying out a task
- stagingPreparing for presentation
- portrayalDepiction of someone
- dramatizationConverting events to performance
interpretation · scene · monologue · dialogue · script · rehearsal · costume · troupe · director · audience
statute
Enacted written rule
amendment · regulation · codification · provision · clause · ratification · promulgation · bylaw · charter · passage
historical
Of documented times
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- reenactorsPeople who recreate past events
- costumesClothes for assuming roles
uniforms · authenticity · Gettysburg · encampment · musket · cavalry · infantry · commemoration · recreation · memorial
role-playing
Acting out characters
- scenarioPostulated event sequence
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- exerciseActivity for fitness
mock · drill · practice · demonstration · modeling · trial · walkthrough · rehearsal · tabletop · emergency
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
- riteCeremonial act or practice
- observanceKeeping of customs
- traditionCustom passed through generations
symbolic · procession · liturgy · sacrament · commemoration · celebration · custom · festival · initiation · devotion
- lawslaws, statute, ordinance, acts, statutes
- legislationbills, acts, laws, statutes, bill
- parliamentparliament, bills, votes, vote, debate
- legal sourceslaws, legal research, legal reference, law journals, constitutions
- parliamentary recordscommittee report, parliamentary debates, bill, proceedings, minutes
- statutesfederal statutes, state statutes, federal laws, statutory law, statute books
enactmentsrepeals
Formally annuls laws
revocations · rescissions · nullifications · annulments · abolitions
enactmentsproposals
Formal offers or plans
drafts · bills · motions · resolutions · white papers