passage

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Enactment; the act of carrying through oll the regular forms necessary to give validity; as the passage of a law, or of a bill into a law, by a legislative body.--Webster. Mr. Pickering says this word "is criticised by the English reviewers as an American innovation." It is not in the English dictionaries in this sense.


His agency in procuring the passage of the stamp act was more than suspected.--Hosack.

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