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  2. Enabling act - Wikipedia

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    The enabling act on 24 February 1923, originally limited until 1 June but extended until 31 October, empowered the cabinet to resist the occupation of the Ruhr. [3] There was an enabling act on 13 October 1923 and an enabling act on 8 December 1923 that would last until the dissolution of the Reichstag on 13 March 1924. [4]

  3. Enabling Act of 1933 - Wikipedia

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    With the Enabling Act now in force, the cabinet (in practice, the chancellor) could pass and enforce laws without legislative oversight. The combined effect of the Enabling Act and the Reichstag Fire Decree transformed Hitler's government into a legal dictatorship and laid the groundwork for his totalitarian regime.

  4. Admission to the Union - Wikipedia

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    When the people of a territory or a region have grown to a sufficient population and have made their desire for statehood known to the federal government, Congress in most cases has passed an enabling act, authorizing the people of that territory or region to frame a proposed state constitution as a step toward admission to the Union. The use ...

  5. 23 March 1933 Reichstag speech - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the government reserves the right to inform the Reichstag of its measures and, if necessary, seek its approval for specific reasons. The Enabling Act should be seen as a kind of emergency law, applicable only "to implement vital measures." [4] The speech concludes with Hitler referring to the approval from the German people.

  6. Reichstag (Nazi Germany) - Wikipedia

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    At the new Reichstag's first session, Hitler introduced the Enabling Act of 1933, which allowed the government to enact laws on its own authority for a four-year period. With certain exceptions (which were in practice disregarded), those laws could deviate from articles in the constitution.

  7. Social Security Fairness Act could restore benefits, but ...

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    "In essence, this money has been stolen from all of us for all these years," said an 84-year-old woman whose late husband's Social Security benefits were slashed. "It's not fair."

  8. Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat - Wikipedia

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    In accordance with the emergency powers granted to it by the Enabling Act (23 March 1933), the Reich government (i.e., the Reich Chancellor and his cabinet) enacted the law without passage through the Reichstag and without obtaining the signature of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg.

  9. Millions of people may get expanded Social Security benefits ...

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    Nearly 3 million people could receive a boost in Social Security payments under legislation set for a final Senate vote in the coming days. The Social Security Fairness Act would end longtime ...