Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

Antony exercised his tribunician veto, with the aim of preventing a senatorial decree declaring martial law against the veto, and was violently expelled from the senate with another Caesar adherent, Cassius, who was also a tribune of the plebs.

#* If Congress has adjourned, thus preventing the return of the legislation, the bill does not become law.

The Supreme Court found that the law constituted an unconstitutional ex post facto law, for it retroactively punished the offenses mentioned in the oath by preventing those who committed them from taking office.

The Confrontation Clause relates to the common law rule preventing the admission of hearsay, that is to say, testimony by one witness as to the statements and observations of another person to prove that the statement or observation was accurate.

* June 21 – Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament.

The Tang law code ensured equal division of inherited property amongst legitimate heirs, allowing a bit of social mobility and preventing the families of powerful court officials in becoming landed nobility through primogeniture.

Hill and his men worked in spite of all obstacles — including a presidential veto of a bill that would have allowed Hill legally to build through American Indian territory ( the law preventing Hill from laying track across Indian territories was later repealed under President Grover Cleveland, who like Hill was a Bourbon Democrat ).

Thus, the law would be justified in preventing anyone from using it, as people who do use it must not know what they are doing.

In June 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a Quebec law preventing people from buying private health insurance to pay for medical services available through the publicly funded system and this ruling does not apply outside the province.

In power, Thrasybulus pushed through a law which pardoned all but a few of the oligarchs, preventing a brutal reprisal by the victorious democrats.

A similar version was included in the " Stop Over Spending Act of 2006 ", authored by Senator Judd Gregg, in the Senate and approved by the Senate Budget Committee, but the full Senate failed to approve it, thereby preventing the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act from becoming law.

In the Katzenbach v. Morgan case, decided in 1966, the Supreme Court concluded that Congress can forbid practices that are not themselves unconstitutional, if the law is aimed at preventing or remedying constitutional violations.

The governor general on the advice of the executive could withhold consent from the bill thereby preventing its passage into law.

Important practical tools for making these things work included separation of powers, the idea that those enforcing the law and those making it should be separate, to prevent the lawmakers from pursuing short-term ends and constitutionalism, the idea that lawmakers should be legally bound about the laws they could pass, thereby preventing absolute rule by the majority.

However, before the law was passed in Ireland, preventing women from engaging in boxing events, Gogarty was able to begin her career there with a six round decision win against Anne-Marie Griffin.

Most writers on international law have regarded this method of preventing such acts of hostility as unjustifiable, on the ground that the persons taken as hostages are not the persons responsible for the act ; that, as by the usage of war hostages are to be treated strictly as prisoners of war, such an exposure to danger is transgressing the rights of a belligerent ; and as useless, for the mere temporary removal of important citizens till the end of a war cannot be a deterrent unless their mere removal deprives the combatants of persons necessary to the continuance of the acts aimed at ( see W. E. Hall, International Law, 1904, pp. 418, 475 ).

Initially written down by William Blackstone, this theory makes Parliament the sovereign law-maker, preventing the common law courts from not only throwing aside but also reviewing statutes in the fashion Coke suggested.

Such groups see copyright law as preventing or slowing human progress.

The reason behind its illegality owes to preventing people from ' assisting in suicide ' those that are not mentally capable of making the decision and because of the " value that society places on human life " which " in the eyes of the law makers, might easily be eroded if assistance in committing suicide were to be decriminalized.

Griswold v. Connecticut involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of " any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception.

The President may sign legislation passed by Congress into law or may veto it, preventing it from becoming law unless two-thirds of both houses of Congress vote to override the veto.

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

They advocated a lifestyle that bore many similarities to later understandings of communism, with communal ownership of land, and absolute equality for males and females in law and education.

The panel dealing with the succession issue recommended on October 25, 2005 amending the law to allow females of the male line of imperial descent to ascend the Japanese throne.

* 1820 — Christian Friedrich Nasse formulated Nasse's law: hemophilia occurs only in males and is passed on by unaffected females.

They based their claim on the Salic law, which excluded females ( Joan II of Navarre ) as well as male descendants through the distaff line ( Edward III of England ), from the succession to the French throne.

Similar to France, the English law of succession did not allow the succession of females, but allowed the succession through the female line ( as was the case with Henry II of England ).

Parliament debated the abolition of the Salic law, which excluded females from the succession and was long held inviolable.

This law overrides Australian anti-discrimination laws which prohibit arrangements under which males have precedence over females, or under which becoming or marrying a Catholic invalidates any legal rights.

Philip rose to the regency with support of the French magnates, following the pattern set up by Philip V's succession over his niece Joan II of Navarre, and Charles IV's succession over all his nieces, including the daughters of Louis X and Philip V. A century later this pattern became the Salic law, which forbade females and those descended in the female line from succeeding to the throne.

The story is particularly doubtful since Countess Godiva would herself have been responsible for setting taxation in Coventry ; Salic law, which excluded females from the inheritance of a throne or fief, did not apply in Anglo-Saxon society.

All girls were educated from 1820, admittedly a long time after the boys, but very early for free education for females ( the law only required it from 1876 ).

An example of how the indentured servant was viewed is the 1662 Virginia law that forced both slave and indentured servant females who bore children by their masters to serve after their indentures for an additional two years for the local churchwardens.

According to these rules, the succession to the throne is hereditary, passing by primogeniture in combination with the Salic law ( which excludes females and descendants who wish to claim the throne through the distaff line ).

Isabella's claim to the throne was disputed by her uncle, the Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, who claimed that his brother Ferdinand had unlawfully changed the succession law to permit females to inherit the crown ( see Carlism ).

* Christian Friedrich Nasse formulates Nasse's law: hemophilia occurs only in males and is transmitted by asymptomatic females.

The Constitution of Afghanistan guarantees at least 64 delegates to be female in the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly (" The elections law shall adopt measures to attain, through the electorate system, general and fair representation for all the people of the country, and proportionate to the population of very province, on average, at least two females shall be the elected members of the House of People from each province.

Fifty-eight percent of the student body are females, in the law school this number drops to 49 percent and in the graduate programs it rises to 64 percent.

Thus, the Salic law was changed to male-preference primogeniture in 1953, meaning that females could inherit, but only if they had no brothers.

The other units are Aspen DWI, a 200-bed facility which opened in 1983 for adult males incarcerated under the state Driving While Intoxicated ( DWI ) law ; Flamenco Mental Health Center, a licensed 105-bed psychiatric hospital for adult males which opened in 1985 ; and Flamenco Health Center for Women, a licensed 20-bed behavioral hospital for adult females which opened in 1990.

The Dukedoms of Schleswig and Holstein were inherited under the Salic law which ignored females: the Kingdom of Denmark had a slightly different inheritance law which included male heirs inheriting through the female line.

The goals of feminist legal theory as defined by leading theorist Claire Dalton, consist of understanding and exploring the female experience, figuring out if law and institutions oppose females, and figuring out what changes can be committed to.

This lasted a hundred years, then the Salic law was changed to male-preference primogeniture in 1953, meaning that females could inherit, but only if they had no brothers.