Crossword-Solution: LEGALISATION 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The petition of the clergy for the legalisation of their marriages, deferred from the last session, was given effect, and fasting was again enjoined on economic grounds.

The legalisation of terrorism by the trade-unions was too tragic a surrender to be ludicrous, but it was even more disgraceful.

The contract, the legalisation--absurd and irrelevant as all legal things are to anything that matters--the contract, because we're such tradition-bound creatures, does give a sort of illusion of inevitability, which is settling, so that it doesn't occur to the people to fly apart at the first strain.

Meanwhile, by 1857 the actual bloodshed in Kansas had come to an end under the administration of an able Governor; the enormous majority of settlers in Kansas were now known to be against slavery and it was probably assumed that the legalisation of slavery could not be forced upon them.

Under them the people of Kansas were to vote whether they would have this Constitution as it stood, or have it with the legalisation of slavery restricted to the slaves who had then been brought into the territory.