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IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Although there was never an enabling act in the United Kingdom resembling the one in Nazi Germany , the idea of an enabling act has been advocated by prominent British politicians. In the 1930s, both Sir , but quickly dropped the idea. {Link without Title} 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". 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". {Link without Title} Currently (February 2006), the highly-controversial yet little-publicised Legislative And Regulatory Reform Bill is passing through Parliament. This Bill will, if enacted into law, enable 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. This Bill has variously been described as the ''"Abolition of Parliament Bill"'' (The Times) and ''"...of first-class constitutional significance... would markedly alter the respective and long standing roles of minister and Parliament in the legislative process"'' (House of Lords Constitutional Committee, reported in The Times ). The Bill is, in essence, an Enabling Act in all but name. IN THE UNITED STATES See Also: Enabling act (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 . 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)". IN VENEZUELA In Venezuela , an enabling act was passed in mid-2000 by Hugo Chávez enabling him to Rule By Decree for one year. 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. |
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