Category: Constitutional law

  • Immigration

    Immigration in United States Immigration Definition The removing into one place from another. It differs from "emigration," which is the moving from one place into another. Read more about the meaning of Immigration in the law Dictionaries. Immigration: A Nation of Immigrants […]

  • Production

    Production in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 407 PRODUCTIONUntil the transformation of the constitutional law of economic regulation, beginning in 1937, production described economic activities […]

  • Criminal Procedure

    Criminal Procedure in United States Criminal Procedure Definition The course or system of proceedings established by law, whereby persons accused of crime are apprehended, tried, and their punishment fixed. Criminal Procedure in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias […]

  • Interstate Commerce

    Interstate Commerce in the United States The phrase “interstate commerce,” as used in the United States, denotes commerce between the citizens of different states of the Union. The words “interstate” and “intrastate” are not found in the constitution nor, until comparatively recently, in […]

  • Courts

    Courts in the United States Courts in the United States Introduction to Courts Courts in the United States, government institutions that resolve legal disputes by trial and that hear appeals from such cases. The United States has a federal system of government in which power is divided […]

  • Tribal Economic Development

    Tribal Economic Development in the United States Tribal Economic Development and the Constitution United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled TRIBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTITUTIONContact between non-Indians and […]

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation

    Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice. It is primarily charged with gathering and reporting facts, locating witnesses, and compiling evidence in cases […]

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation

    Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice. It is primarily charged with gathering and reporting facts, locating witnesses, and compiling evidence in cases […]

  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights in the United States Civil Rights Definition The rights of a citizen; the rights of an individual as a citizen; the rights due from one citizen to another, the privation of which is a civil wrong, for which redress may be sought in a civil action. Also sometimes applied to the […]

  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights in the United States Civil Rights Definition The rights of a citizen; the rights of an individual as a citizen; the rights due from one citizen to another, the privation of which is a civil wrong, for which redress may be sought in a civil action. Also sometimes applied to the […]

  • Communications

    Communications in the United States Communications and Community United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNITYThe essence of community indeed, its sine qua non is communications. In terms of […]

  • Communications

    Communications in the United States Communications and Community United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNITYThe essence of community indeed, its sine qua non is communications. In terms of […]

  • Labor

    Labor in United States Labor Definition Continued operation; work; manual work. The act' of doing what requires a painful exertion of strength; pains; toil; work to be done; work done; performance; exercise; motion with some degree of violence; childbirth; travail. 2 Ohio St. 400. […]

  • Law Enforcement

    Law Enforcement in the United States Law Enforcement and Federal_State Relations United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FEDERAL_STATE RELATIONSThis country has long been committed to the notion that […]

  • Law Enforcement

    Law Enforcement in the United States Law Enforcement and Federal_State Relations United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FEDERAL_STATE RELATIONSThis country has long been committed to the notion that […]