An Enabling Act, in reference to 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. They're usually titled "An Enabling Act for a State of (Name they want to call the state)". This has nothing to do with the more infamous Enabling Act of Nazi Germany. A U.S. state is any one of the 50 states which have membership of the federation known as the United States of America (USA or U.S.). The separate state governments and the U.S. federal government share sovereignty. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government Official website of the United States government - Gateway to governmental sites White House - Official site of the US President Senate. ... Legislation refers 1. ... The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. ... United States territory is any land and territorial (of the land) and adjacent (next to it) waters and airspace under the jurisdiction of the federal government of the United States of America (USA), especially those under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States Government. ... The Enabling Act (in German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was passed by the Reichstag on March 23, 1933. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...