Blue laws, also known as Sunday laws, are laws that restrict or ban some or all activities on specified days (most often on Sundays in the western world)...
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Blue laws (also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws, and Sunday closing laws) are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days...
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Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and...
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Federal law and treaties, so long as they are in accordance with the Constitution, preempt conflicting state and territorial laws in the 50 U.S. states and...
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The United States Code (formally the Code of Laws of the United States of America) is the official codification of the general and permanent federal statutes...
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sworn law enforcement officers have been serving in the United States. About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement...
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...
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A blue sky law is a state law in the United States that regulates the offering and sale of securities to protect the public from fraud. Though the specific...
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crime laws in the United States are state and federal laws intended to protect against hate crimes (also known as bias crimes). While state laws vary,...
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Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly...
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laws do not apply. Instead, only laws made by the federal government apply. Alcohol consumption by youth in the United States Alcohol exclusion laws Blue...
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In the United States, gambling is subject to a variety of legal restrictions. In 2008, gambling activities generated gross revenues (the difference between...
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The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)...
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United States Blasphemy law in the United States Blue laws in the United States Campaign finance reform in the United States Cannabis in the United States...
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Securities regulation in the United States is the field of U.S. law that covers transactions and other dealings with securities. The term is usually understood...
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In the United States, extradition law is a collection of federal laws that regulate extradition, the formal process by which a fugitive found in the United...
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The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll,...
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Pornography has existed since the origins of the United States, and has become more readily accessible in the 21st century. Advanced by technological...
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The Blue Laws of the Colony of Connecticut are an invented set of harsh statutes governing conduct in the Puritan colony, listed in a history of Connecticut...
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In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes...
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laws at least as protective of workers' rights as under federal law. More than half of the states have done so. Child labor laws in the United States...
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unincorporated territory of the United States, many U.S. federal laws apply, as well as Constitutional rulings and protections. The U.S. Virgin Islands have...
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In the 20th century, the United States began to invalidate laws against blasphemy which had been on the books since before the founding of the nation [citation...
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in the United States is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the marriage existing between two persons. Divorce restores the...
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In the politics of the United States, elections are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, the nation's...
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326 Indian reservations in the United States. These tribes possess the right to form their own governments, to enforce laws (both civil and criminal)...
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U.S. state (redirect from States in the United States)
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental...
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one post-quickening. Many states subsequently passed various laws on abortion until the Supreme Court of the United States decisions of Roe v. Wade and...
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The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. With the...
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Income in the United States is measured by the various federal agencies including the Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department...
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