In 1995 the Supreme Court rejected the Gun-Free School Zones Act in the Lopez decision, and also rejected the civil remedy portion of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 in the United States v. Morrison decision.

* 1793 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.

In 2002, the government adopted the Prevention of Corruption Act, which led to the setting up of an Independent Commission Against Corruption ( ICAC ) a few months later.

Known collectively as " Artists United Against the U. S. Orphan Works Acts ", the diverse organizations joined forces to oppose the bills, which the groups believe " permits, and even encourages, wide-scale infringements while depriving creators of protections currently available under the Copyright Act.

In the U. S. the Violence Against Women Act was passed, which greatly affected the world community through the United Nations.

* July 9 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada.

The Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada on July 9, 1793.

As a social activist, Bono became a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, promoted National Coming Out Day, campaigned for the reelection of Bill Clinton for US President, campaigned against the Defense of Marriage Act, and served as Entertainment Media Director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ).

To implement the Rome Statute, Canada passed the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.

In that case, the Supreme Court, applying the congruent-and-proportional Boerne test, overturned provisions of the Violence Against Women Act ( VAWA ), which criminalized gender-based violence.

The decision that the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts were unconstitutional has not been overturned ; on the contrary, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this limited reading of the Fourteenth Amendment in United States v. Morrison,, in which it held that Congress did not have the authority to enact parts of the Violence Against Women Act.

The Hostage Taking Act is a subsection of the International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages.

27 ICSMA picketers outside Leinster House ( the parliament building ) were arrested on the 27 April 1966 under the Offences Against the State Act, an Act usually reserved for use against terrorists.

As a group they participated in the live concert for Act Against Aids on December 1, 1994 and again on December 1, 1995.

The live was followed up by a collaboration Act Against AIDS charity single with fellow Japanese artist Kuwata Keisuke titled ‘ Kiseki no hoshi ’ and released on January 23, 1995.

Because of Article 34. 3. 3 ° of the Constitution, the constitutional validity of the Offences Against the State ( Amendment ) Act, 1940 cannot be challenged in any court, since the Bill which became that Act was found by the Supreme Court not to be repugnant in the context of an Article 26 reference.

The IRC is currently spearheading a campaign urging the United States to pass the International Violence Against Women Act, which is now before Congress.

An Act Against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts ( 5 Eliz.

Title IV, the Violence Against Women Act ( VAWA ), allocated $ 1. 6 billion to help prevent and investigate violence against women.

3402: Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005.

3402: Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005.

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

* Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time ( British West Indies ):

* 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

Use of modern refining techniques was especially important because the British Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire ( but slavery itself remained legal until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ).

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

This was achieved in the British Empire by the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.

Slavery was abolished by an Act of Parliament that became law on 1 August 1834.

Slavery was abolished in British India by the Indian Slavery Act V. of 1843.

The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, Wilberforce also campaigned for abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which he lived to see in the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

* Slavery Abolition Act 1833, ending slavery in most of the British Empire

In 1832 Parliament abolished slavery in the Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

** The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom ( enacted 1834 ).

* August 1 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ).

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

In spite of powerful opposition the Draft Act finally passed Congress on May 17, 1917.

In July 1862, the Second Confiscation Act was passed, which set up court procedures that could free the slaves of anyone convicted of aiding the rebellion.

* 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

In May 1860 a significantly amended version of the Act was passed in both houses but was vetoed by President Buchanan.

The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

The moderates passed the Freedmen's Bureau Act a second time, and again the president vetoed it, but on this occasion the veto was overridden.

Congress passed a third Reconstruction Act to invalidate these opinions, and took two votes to defeat the President's obstruction.

Congress passed a fourth Reconstruction Act ( again over a veto ) to provide for ratification of each state's constitution by a majority of those voting ( rather than requiring the vote to be all those registered ).

* 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.

The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

The Act of Settlement was thus passed and granted Royal Assent in 1701.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

To formalise its government's consent to the abdication, the Canadian parliament passed, the following year, the Succession to the Throne Act ( 1 Geo.

The Scottish Parliament unanimously passed a motion in 1999 calling for the complete removal of any discrimination linked to the monarchy and the repeal of the Act of Settlement.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.