ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. These laws targeted poor people and disabled people. For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal...
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The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation...
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sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but...
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Defamation (redirect from German defamation law)
reputation – like dignity and honour. In the English-speaking world, the law of defamation traditionally distinguishes between libel (written, printed...
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The Nuremberg Laws (German: Nürnberger Gesetze, pronounced [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁɡɐ ɡəˈzɛtsə] ) were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany...
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LGBTQ rights by country or territory (redirect from Homosexuality and law)
same-sex sexual acts: Iran and Afghanistan. The death penalty is officially law, but generally not practiced, in Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia (in the...
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in the United States was often codified into law. For example, in many jurisdictions, so-called "ugly laws" barred people from appearing in public if they...
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exclusion Sodomy law State atheism State religion Ugly law Voter suppression Countermeasures Affirmative action Anti-discrimination law Anti-racism Constitutional...
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their defining characteristic is that inmates are held outside the rule of law. Extermination camps or death camps, whose primary purpose is killing, are...
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Misogyny (section English and Welsh law)
obeying; that 'matter yearns for form, as the female for the male and the ugly for the beautiful'; that women have fewer teeth than men; that a female is...
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exclusion Sodomy law State atheism State religion Ugly law Voter suppression Countermeasures Affirmative action Anti-discrimination law Anti-racism Constitutional...
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Coyote Ugly is a 2000 American comedy-drama film based on the Coyote Ugly Saloon chain. It was directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
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dedication and effort in service to a specific discipline (e.g., medicine or law) or a high degree of accomplishment, training or wisdom within a given field;...
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(2010). "Diseased, Maimed, Mutilated: Categorizations of Disability and an Ugly Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago". Journal of Social History. 44 (1):...
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anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial sexual relations. Some of these laws predated the establishment...
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Hate crime (redirect from Hate crime law)
hate crime law is a law intended to deter bias-motivated violence. Hate crime laws are distinct from laws against hate speech: hate crime laws enhance the...
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Human rights (redirect from Law & human rights)
human behavior and are often protected by both national and international laws. These rights are considered inherent and inalienable, meaning they belong...
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quantum laws or Indian blood laws are laws in the United States that define Native American status by fractions of Native American ancestry. These laws were...
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April 2020, the 129th birth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar, his grandson-in-law, Anand Teltumbde was arrested by the NIA in connection with the case. A week...
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Anti-miscegenation laws are laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage...
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of the limitations of the Scheduled Caste category is that, under Indian law, such people can only be followers of Buddhism, Hinduism or Sikhism, yet...
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that State or Union Territory, as the case may be. (2) Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Castes specified in a notification...
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European colonial labor and social practices, the Scramble for Africa, Jim Crow laws in the United States, the activities of the Native Land Court in New Zealand...
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engage in or refrain from a specified action. Under historical English common law, a covenant was distinguished from an ordinary contract by the presence of...
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emigration peaked between 1980 and 1982 at 53,000 persons, with the breakdown of law and order, an increase in crime in the rural areas, and the provocative attitude...
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Israeli government was "committed to fighting racism whenever it raises its ugly head and is committed to full equality to all Israeli citizens, irrespective...
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Former US Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia wrote in a 2021 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy article that cancel culture is a form of free speech, and...
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Genocide (category International criminal law)
than simply outlawing this type of mass slaughter. He also thought that the law against genocide could promote more tolerant and pluralistic societies. His...
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Islamophobia (redirect from Creeping sharia law)
Report. No. 142. Southern Poverty Law Center. "Pamela Geller & Stop Islamization of America". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 27 June 2011. Siemaszko...
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