codify
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It wasn’t until 1941, however, that the holiday’s date was codified in law, when Franklin Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress mandating its celebration on the fourth Thursday of November.
“It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history—you own your own data,” Huang said last year of sovereign AI.
That commitment is codified in a still-operative state document from 1982 known as Document 19, officially titled “The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Question during Our Country’s Socialist Period.”
In return, Moscow would promise not to further attack Ukraine or other countries in Europe, according to the officials, and would codify that promise in legislation.
She also spoke of working “with Congress to codify these reforms,” an acknowledgment that the Department of Education was created by an act of Congress.
From Los Angeles Times
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