Tag: America Legal History

  • 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 […]

  • Women

    Women in the United States Introduction to Women and the Law With the growth of the feminist movement, the published information in the subject area of women and the law has grown. Issues of labor, domestic relations, education, economics and health have always been of interest to the public […]

  • Military

    Military in the United States Military, Sexual Behaviour and the Law Further Reading Military in the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law Military in the Criminal Justice System This section covers the topics below related with Military : Victims Special Populations in relation with […]

  • Military

    Military in the United States Military, Sexual Behaviour and the Law Further Reading Military in the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law Military in the Criminal Justice System This section covers the topics below related with Military : Victims Special Populations in relation with […]

  • Russia

    Russia in the United States Czar (in Politics) Related to political science, the following is a definition of Czar in the U.S. practice of politics: An unofficial title used to refer to high-ranking executive branch appointments. Czars are usually given responsibility for a specific policy […]

  • Russia

    Russia in the United States Czar (in Politics) Related to political science, the following is a definition of Czar in the U.S. practice of politics: An unofficial title used to refer to high-ranking executive branch appointments. Czars are usually given responsibility for a specific policy […]

  • Religion

    Religion in United States Religion Definition (Lat. re, back, ligo, to bind). Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men. Any system of faith and worship; as the religion of the Turks, of Hindoos, of Christians; true and false religion. […]

  • Removal

    Removal in the United States Removal Definition Deportation in this legal Encyclopedia Removal definition in the Law Dictionary Removal in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act The removal provision the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) states that “[a]ny civil action brought in a […]

  • Neutrality

    Neutrality in the United States Neutrality Definition The state of a nation which takes no part between two or more other nations at war with each other. The strict definition rather imports the duty which a neutral owes to a belligerent, than the relative situation in which that belligerent […]

  • Stagflation

    Stagflation in the United States Stagflation in the U.S. Legal History Summary The economic conditions of slow economic growth, rising inflation, and flagging productivity that characterized the American economy during the 1970s.

  • Stagflation

    Stagflation in the United States Stagflation in the U.S. Legal History Summary The economic conditions of slow economic growth, rising inflation, and flagging productivity that characterized the American economy during the 1970s.

  • Virtual Representation

    Virtual Representation in the United States Virtual Representation in the U.S. Legal History Summary King George III’s chief minister, George Grenville, employed this concept in 1765 in relation to the Stamp Act. He insisted that all colonists were represented in Parliament by virtue of being […]

  • Virtual Representation

    Virtual Representation in the United States Virtual Representation in the U.S. Legal History Summary King George III’s chief minister, George Grenville, employed this concept in 1765 in relation to the Stamp Act. He insisted that all colonists were represented in Parliament by virtue of being […]

  • Social Gospel

    Social Gospel in the United States Social Gospel in the U.S. Legal History Summary A movement among Christian theologians, it applied Christian doctrines to social problems and advocated creating living conditions conducive to saving souls by tackling the problems of the poor.

  • Boxing

    Boxing in the United States Marquis of Queensberry Rules in the U.S. Legal History Summary Standardized boxing rules of the late nineteenth century, creating structured three minute rounds with one minute rest periods, outlawing wrestling throws and holds, and specifying the number of rounds.