federal legislation
National government statutes
Federal legislation refers to laws enacted by a national government, as distinct from state, provincial, or local laws.
In the United States, federal legislation originates in Congress and, once signed by the president, applies uniformly across all states and territories.
The new federal legislation on healthcare overrides conflicting state laws.
The term emphasizes the jurisdictional level at which a law operates within a federalist system of government.
- Affordable Care ActUS healthcare reform law
- signing ceremonyFormal document endorsement occasion
- veto overrideReversing an executive's block
- Clean Air ActFederal pollution standards law
- voteFormal choice expression
cloture · healthcare reform · judicial review · constitutional authority · Patriot Act · pork barrel · separation of powers · bicameralism · Capitol Hill · reconciliation process · floor debate · roll call vote · antitrust law · congressional committees · environmental protection laws · executive orders · filibuster · codification
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- archivesnational archives, state archives, archivist, archive box, national archive
- Chinese AmericaChinese Exclusion Act, Chinatown, Chinatowns, transcontinental railroad, railroad workers
- legislationbills, acts, laws, statutes, bill
- parliamentary recordscommittee report, parliamentary debates, bill, proceedings, minutes
federal legislationstate legislation
Laws passed by state government
state law · local ordinance · local legislation · municipal code · state code
federal legislationsocial custom
Expected communal behavior pattern
unwritten rules · common practice · social convention · gentleman's agreement · community standards
federal legislationexecutive order
Binding directive from leadership
executive action · judicial precedent · case law · federal regulation · federal decree