Ignorance of the law is no better excuse on the water than it is on land ; ;

The two Iowa cases of State v. Ellis and State v. Striggles are both used in classes on criminal law to illustrate the concept of reliance upon authority as it relates to the axiomatic ignorantia juris non excusat (" Ignorance of the law is no excuse ").

; Ignorantia legis non excusat: " Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

" Ignorance of the law is no excuse, buddy!

* Alan Parsons – The Time Machine ( 1999 ) – " Ignorance Is Bliss "

#" Ignorance Is Bliss " – ( Bairnson ) Lead Vocal Colin Blunstone – 6: 49

# Prospect of the Ruins of Rome in the Fifteenth Century – Four Causes of Decay and Destruction – Example of the Coliseum – Ignorance and Barbarism of Romans – Renovation of the City – Conclusion

# " Real People of Ignorance ( Rap Star )" – 1: 02

# " Real People of Ignorance ( Tattoo )" – 1: 03

#" Influenced to Ignorance " – 1: 12

Although the Dunning – Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger have quoted Charles Darwin (" Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge ") and Bertrand Russell (" One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision ") as authors who have recognised the phenomenon.

Lincoln in his late 30s – photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846

He returned to politics to oppose the pro-slavery Kansas – Nebraska Act ( 1854 ); this law repealed the slavery-restricting Missouri Compromise ( 1820 ).

* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

This corresponds to a speed of around 0. 05 c. There is surprisingly small variation around this energy, due to the heavy dependence of the half-life of this process on the energy produced ( see equations in the Geiger – Nuttall law ).

Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived, from first principles, a relationship between the half-life of the decay, and the energy of the emission, which had been previously discovered empirically, and was known as the Geiger – Nuttall law.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

* 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass, which he was the first to state, although Mikhail Lomonosov ( 1711 – 1765 ) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

In January 2005, a federal law came into force in Germany – the Luftsicherheitsgesetz – that allowed " direct action by armed force " against a hijacked aircraft to prevent a 9 / 11-type attack.

* 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.

* 1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.

* 1935 – The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.

According to the 1977 constitution of the Republic of Afghanistan ( 1973 – 78 ), all Afghans are equal in rights and obligations before the law.

* 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch.

* 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.

* 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.

* 1938 – U. S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.

* 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and developed Marconi's law, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics ( d. 1937 )