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  2. List of United States federal legislation, 1789–1901 - Wikipedia

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    An Act to suspend part of an Act, intituled “An Act to regulate the collection of the Duties imposed by Law on the Tonnage of Ships or Vessels, and on Goods, Wares, and Merchandises, imported into the United States,” and for other purposes. Sess. 1, ch. 15 1 Stat. 69: 16: September 22, 1789: Temporary Establishment of the Post-office.

  3. File:Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 (UKPGA 1964-84 ...

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    English: An Act to amend the form of the special verdict required by section 2 of the Trial of Lunatics Act 1883 and the procedure for determining whether an accused person is under a disability such as to constitute a bar to his being tried; to provide for an appeal against such a special verdict or a finding that the accused is under such a disability; to confer on the court of trial and the ...

  4. List of the United States treaties - Wikipedia

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    1883 – Paris ... Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement: became law 2005 Costa Rica. ... Act of Congress: United States Code Title 25, Chapter 3 ...

  5. Pace v. Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Pace v. Alabama, 106 U.S. 583 (1883), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional. [1] This ruling was rejected by the Supreme Court in 1964 in McLaughlin v.

  6. United States v. Harris - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Harris, 106 U.S. 629 (1883), or the Ku Klux Case, was a case in which the US Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to penalize crimes such as assault and murder in most circumstances. [1] The Court declared that only state governments have the power to penalize those crimes.

  7. Schedule F appointment - Wikipedia

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    The legal basis for the Schedule Policy/Career appointment is a section of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978), which exempts from civil service protections federal employees "whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character".

  8. The Code of Indian Offenses - Wikipedia

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    The Code of Indian Offenses was an 1883 body of legislation in the United States that, along with other legislation, restricted the religious and cultural ceremonies of Native American tribes. A major objective of US relations with Native American tribes in the late nineteenth century was cultural assimilation .

  9. Civil Rights Cases - Wikipedia

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    The business owners contended that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was itself unconstitutional, and an Act of Congress should not be able to interfere with their private rights of property. At the Supreme Court level, the five originally independent cases – United States v. Stanley, United States v. Ryan, United States v. Nichols, United States v.