The following Parliament Act, which looked to prevent a recurrence of the budget problems, was also widely opposed in the Lords and cross-party discussion failed, particularly because over the proposed Act's applicability to passing an Irish home rule bill.

Johnson, who was one of the Act's strongest supporters, called the new law one of the " promises of a century … it proclaims that fair housing for all — all human beings who live in this country — is now a part of the American way of life.

While accepting that under Glass-Steagall financial firms could still have “ made, sold, and securitized risky mortgages, all the while fueling a massive housing bubble and building a highly leveraged, Ponzi-like pyramid of derivatives on top ,” the New Rules Project concludes that commentators who deny the GLBA played a role in the financial crisis “ fail to recognize the significance of 1999 as the pivotal policy-making moment leading up to the crash .” The Project argues 1999 was Congress ’ s opportunity to reject 25 years of “ deregulation ” and “ confront the changing financial system by reaffirming the importance of effective structural safeguards, such as the Glass-Steagall Act's firewall and market share caps to limit the size of banks ; bringing shadow banks into the regulatory framework ; and developing new rules to control the dangers inherent in derivatives and other engineered financial products .”

Lastly, the new law also explicitly stated that sterilization, where performed under the Act's guidelines, would be lawful and that any persons who requested, authorized or directed proceedings would not be held criminally or civilly liable for actions taken.

Some merchants found The Shoplifting Act overly severe, jurors often deliberately under-valued the cost of items stolen so convicted shoplifters would escape death, and reformist lawyers advocated for the Act's repeal, but The Shoplifting Act was supported by powerful people such as Lord Ellenborough, who characterized penal transportation as " a summer airing to a milder climate " and the archbishop of Canterbury, who believed that strong punishment was necessary to prevent a dramatic increase in crime.

But the Manx Act differed in one significant respect from the latter, in requiring clergy from abroad, who were convicted of conducting marriages in breach of the Act's requirements, to be pilloried and have their ears cropped, before being imprisoned, fined and deported.

Three of the Blacks ' leaders had already been captured during the passage of the Act, although one later escaped, and a series of raids captured a total of 32 Blacks who were tried after the Act's passage in Reading.

" The Act's reliance on such a broad reading of the Commerce Clause was criticized by Independence Institute scholar David Kopel and University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, who noted that " nless a physician is operating a mobile abortion clinic on the Metroliner, it is not really possible to perform an abortion ' in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce.

The Act's 2012 renewal was fiercely opposed by conservative Republicans, who objected to extending the Act's protections to same-sex couples and to provisions allowing battered illegal immigrants to claim temporary visas .< Ref name =" vawa-2012 ">

Publication was controlled under the Licensing Act of 1662, but the Act's lapses from 1679 – 1685 and from 1695 onwards encouraged a number of new titles.

The Reform Act's chief objective was the reduction of the number of nomination boroughs.

The Pendleton Act's reach was expanded as the two main political parties alternated control of the White House every election between 1884 and 1896.

During the debate over the 2006 extension, some Republican members of Congress objected to renewing the preclearance requirement ( the Act's primary enforcement provision ), arguing that it represents an overreach of federal power and places unwarranted bureaucratic demands on Southern states that have long since abandoned the discriminatory practices the Act was meant to eradicate.

The subsequent Court of Appeal ruling agreed that the 1949 Act itself was valid, but left open the question of whether the Commons could use the Parliament Act to make significant changes to the constitution ( for example, repealing the Parliament Act's provision prohibiting the Act from being used to extend the lifespan of Parliament ).

The Act's long title was " An act to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions ".

The Borough of Woodland Park was chartered by the State of New Jersey to function under a variation of the Faulkner Act's, Small Municipality Plan C of the Option Municipal Charter Law form of government.

The Act's long title was " An Act to provide for the better government of Ireland "; it is also known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill or ( less accurately ) as the Fourth Home Rule Act.

Due to the Act's phrasing, Edward VIII's abdication was actually back-dated to the day before that on which it took effect in the United Kingdom and most of the other dominions.

Most of the Act's effects were repealed by 1689, but it was not formally abolished until 1812.

The Act's full title was An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked spirits, ( 2 Ja.

There was no right to consult the records freely for scholarly purposes until 1852, despite the 1838 Public Record Office Act's intention of enabling public access.

Much of the Act's enforcement was left to the discretion of local United States Attorneys, so enforcement varied widely.

A year after the Act's passage, Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1904, 1908, and 1912 was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a speech that " obstructed recruiting ".

In 2011, MUM was one of more than 1, 000 corporations which requested a waiver to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's requirement to offer maximum payouts of $ 750, 000 per employee.

Since the Act's repeal what was referred to as " England " is now " England and Wales ", while references to " England " and " Wales " refer to those political divisions.

Some commentators have noted that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act's language was carefully crafted to take into account previous rulings.

The Townsend Plan continued to agitate for higher benefits after the Social Security Act's passage and reached its peak of support in the months after it was enacted.

The original Act's long title was An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes.

The Congress met in the building now known as Federal Hall, and was held at a time of widespread protests in the colonies, some of which were violent, against the Stamp Act's implementation.

The Supreme Court upheld the 1984 Act's provision providing for pretrial detention based on community-danger in United States v. Salerno.

The same year, Hand further limited the Tariff Act's restrictions in United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce, 72 F. 2d 705 ( 2nd Cir.

On January 6, 1879, in Reynolds v. United States the Supreme Court, upheld the Anti-Bigamy Act's ban on plural marriage.

Smith v. Doe,, was a court case in the United States which questioned the constitutionality of the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act's retroactive requirements.

Smith v. Doe questioned the constitutionality of the Act's retroactive requirements.

2008 ): Rejecting a constitutional challenge to the Voting Rights Act's preclearance requirement, Judge Tatel ’ s 121-page opinion held that the rationality standard articulated in South Carolina v. Katzenbach and City of Rome v. United States — two Supreme Court decisions upholding prior versions of the Act — remains the appropriate standard of review despite the congruence and proportionality test announced in City of Boerne v. Flores.

The faction led by John Marshall Harlan and Rufus Peckham embraced a small-producer ethic and a fully competitive market ; these justices used the Sherman Act's prohibition of " restraint of trade " to outlaw price fixing by businesses.

* In England, Parliament decides against a renewal of the Licensing Act, putting an end to royal censorship of printing presses and so clearing the way for a free press on the Act's expiry in 1696.

The courts have since recognized a limited exception to the Norris-LaGuardia Act's strict limitations in those cases in which a party seeks injunctive relief to enforce the grievance arbitration provisions of a collective bargaining agreement.

Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, dissented, accepting the Act's stated purpose of " protecting academic freedom " as a sincere and legitimate secular purpose.

Thus the Act's enfranchising clauses created 65 new county seats and 65 new borough seats in England and Wales with the total number of members representing England falling by seventeen and the number representing Wales rising by four.

The Act's sponsors embraced conventional Keynesian economic theory, which advocates aggressive government spending to increase economic demand.

After the Act's passage, Chinese men in the U. S. had little chance of ever reuniting with their wives, or of starting families in their new homes.

Native Americans lost, over the 47 years of the Act's life, about 90 million acres ( 360, 000 km² ) of treaty land, or about two-thirds of the 1887 land base.

These include actions that contributed to the reversal of the Dawes Act's privatization of communal holdings of American Indian tribes and a return to local self-government on a tribal basis.

The Act's sponsors, Representative Jack Kemp of New York and Senator William V. Roth, Jr. of Delaware, had hoped for more significant tax cuts, but settled on this bill after a great debate in Congress.

* U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Rights Enforcement and Reauthorization: An Examination of the Act's Section 5 Preclearance Provision

For example, in The Political Question of Presidential Succession, Northwestern University Professor Steven G. Calabresi suggests that this Act's constitutionality may be a political question.

The Sarbanes – Oxley Act's effect on non-U. S. companies cross-listed in the U. S. is different on firms from developed and well regulated countries than on firms from less developed countries according to Kate Litvak.