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Whigs and moralists denounced his aggressive enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, which resulted in the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans to Indian Territory ( now Oklahoma ).
While landline and mobile telephone providers must also be majority-owned by Canadians under the federal Telecommunications Act, the CRTC is not responsible for enforcement of this provision.
So far, franchise agreements are covered under two standard commercial laws: the Contract Act 1872 and the Specific Relief Act 1963, which provide for both specific enforcement of covenants in a contract and remedies in the form of damages for breach of contract.
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 would have authorized indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, but enforcement of the relevant section was blocked by a federal court on May 16, 2012, ruling on a suit brought by a number of private citizens, including Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir.
While Attorney General, Ashcroft consistently denied that the FBI or any other law enforcement agency had used the Patriot Act to obtain library circulation records or those of retail sales.
Years later, the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 led anti-slavery activists to quote the Resolutions to support their calls on Northern states to nullify what they considered unconstitutional enforcement of the law.
In 1997, The Federal Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility and Compliance Act was proposed in the U. S. legislature to correct the shortcomings of the original section 508 ; the original Section 508 had turned out to be mostly ineffective, in part due to the lack of enforcement mechanisms.
Civil liberties groups have criticized the PATRIOT Act, saying that it allows law enforcement to invade the privacy of citizens and eliminates judicial oversight of law-enforcement and domestic intelligence gathering.
* Legislation ( soon to become the Patriot Act ) granting intelligence and law enforcement agencies more latitude in surveillance and inter-agency communication is debated in Washington, D. C.
The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act ’ s expanded law enforcement powers can be applied.
* In the years 1910 and 1911, there was a minor economic depression known as the Panic of 1910-1911, which was followed by the enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
#: Reaction in Congress against the Reconstruction-era suspensions of Southern states ' rights to organize militias led to the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act, restricting any person's use of the U. S. Army and, as later amended, the U. S. Air Force in domestic law enforcement ( use of the Navy and Marine Corps, being uniformed services within the Department of Defense, is similarly restricted by statute ).
In the United States, Florida's Baker Act allows law enforcement and the judiciary to force mental evaluation for those suspected of suffering from dementia or other mental incapacities.
Court injunction blocked enforcement of the first, the Child Online Protection Act ( COPA ), almost immediately after its passage in 1998 ; the law was later overturned.
However, weak enforcement mechanisms made the Act ineffective.
In 1974, fueled by public reaction to the Watergate Scandal, Congress passed amendments to the Act establishing a comprehensive system of regulation and enforcement, including public financing of presidential campaigns and creation of a central enforcement agency, the Federal Election Commission.
* The most concrete Southern gains were a stronger Fugitive Slave Act, the enforcement of which outraged Northern public opinion, and preservation of slavery in the national capital.
It is administered by the Department of Parliamentary Services ( DPS ) and has the enforcement of the Criminal Code Act 1995.
A specific impetus for the novel was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which imposed heavy fines upon law enforcement personnel in Northern states if they refused to assist the return of people who escaped from slavery.
With the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887, the federal government began to take on some law enforcement responsibilities, with the Department of Justice tasked to carry out these duties.
( Interestingly, the first, rejected draft of the Securities Act written by Samuel Untermyer vested these powers in the U. S. Post Office, because Untermyer believed that only by vesting enforcement powers with the postal service could the constitutionality of the act be assured.
Customs officials maintained a stance of vigorous enforcement throughout and Gallatin's Enforcement Act ( 1809 ) was a party issue.
The Clayton Act specified particular prohibited conduct, the three-level enforcement scheme, the exemptions, and the remedial measures.

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What Mr. Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: `` It is the Department's view that no anti-trust enforcement considerations justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ''.
One purpose of the change was to attain sympathetic enforcement of rights insured by the Civil War amendments against state interference.
Its enforcement was enjoined by a federal trial court.
At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.
* Legalism, which maintained that human nature was incorrigibly selfish ; accordingly, the only way to preserve the social order was to impose discipline from above, and to see to a strict enforcement of laws.
Thus, under Elizabeth, a more permanent enforcement of the Reformed religion was undertaken, and the 1552 book was republished in 1559, scarcely altered.
Perhaps CORAL's most significant contribution to computing was the enforcement of quality control in commercial compilers.
The 2006 science fiction film Déjà Vu revolves around a US federal law enforcement officer using an instrument called Snowhite to view the past four and a half days of anywhere in the world ( limited radius as permissible by the program ) in order to solve a murder and a terrorist bomb attack on a ferry that was being boarded by about 500 citizens and military members.
By far the most important issue to counter-revolutionary women was the passage and the enforcement of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790.
As Western governments became more aware of the practice, legislation was passed to make it a criminal offence, though enforcement may be a low priority.
Provision of legal and technical advisors was complemented by training opportunities for parliamentarians, law enforcement officials, and economic advisers.
This represented a radical departure from German tradition, which held that law enforcement was ( mostly ) a Land ( state ) and local matter.
It was characterized by East German psychoanalyst Hans-Joachim Maaz in 1990 as having produced a " Congested Feeling " among Germans in the East as a result of Communist policies criminalizing personal expression that deviates from government approved ideals, and through the enforcement of Communist principals by physical force and intellectual repression by government agencies, particularly the Stasi.
Congress actually passed an income tax law, although enforcement was sporadic at best.
While a board of elders was elected for the enforcement of the Society's rules and regulations, business management passed to its trustees: Baker and Henrici, 1847 – 68 ; Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, 1869 – 90 ; Henrici and Wolfel, 1890 ; Henrici and John S. Duss, 1890 – 1892 ; Duss and Seiber, 1892 – 1893 ; Duss and Reithmuller, 1893 – 1897 ; Duss, 1897 – 1903 ; and finally to Suzanna ( Susie ) C. Duss in 1903.
If the interrogation was conducted by a person known by the suspect to be a law enforcement officer the state action requirement is unquestionably met.
As a pistol, the Stechkin is being slowly replaced by the Yarygin PYa ; as a PDW, it was replaced by the AKS-74U compact assault rifle, now widely used in law enforcement.
) At the end of 1987, the police radio code used by law enforcement officers in Moscow was allegedly updated to include a code for an aircraft landing.
The device was determined to be a three-foot (. 9-m ) long TOW missile used in the training of federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs ; although actually inert, it had been marked " live " in order to mislead arms traffickers in a planned law enforcement sting.
However, the sex appeal West gave in these movies would also lead to the enforcement of the Production Code, as the newly formed organization the Catholic Legion of Decency threatened a boycott if it was not enforced.
Law enforcement in Ancient China was carried out by " prefects ".
Law enforcement in Ancient China was also relatively progressive, allowing for female prefects.

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