0 an official order, especially one that is given in a forceful and unfair way:
1 a public order given by an authority:
a court edict
Thus, decrees and edicts have played a substantial role in the legal reforms, including those specifically addressing aboriginal rights.
Rather than rejecting responsible cabinets and a stronger central government role, these reform edicts postponed them to a later time.
It clearly allied its sitters with fashionable and widely read edicts on marriage.
To implement their decisions they needed either voluntary cooperation on the part of other officials or an imperial edict to force the issue.
Ironically, many of the demands of the failed revolution of 1933 became the constitutional edicts of 1940.
A separate edict concurrently issued to him showed that the colonisation of the aboriginal territories had been approved as government policy.
The enthusiastic emperor began, on their recommendations, to issue a series of edicts to speed up reform in the summer of 1898.
A law, once passed, supercedes presidential edicts and decrees.
