The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''.

To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

The sale of dextromethorphan in its pure powder form may incur penalties, although no explicit law exists prohibiting its sale or possession, other than in the state of Illinois.

The Civil Rights Act of 1871 applies to public employment or employment involving state action prohibiting deprivation of rights secured by the federal constitution or federal laws through action under color of law.

He also argued for the reversal of a Canadian law prohibiting the Potlatch ceremony of the West Coast tribes.

The most recent update to gun law in Finland occurred in November 2007 when the government pre-empted a new EU directive prohibiting the carrying of firearms by under-18's by removing the ability of 15-to 18-year-olds to carry hunting rifles under parental guidance.

The law includes health-related provisions to take effect over the next four years, including expanding Medicaid eligibility for people making up to 133 % of the federal poverty level ( FPL ), subsidizing insurance premiums for people making up to 400 % of the FPL ($ 88, 000 for family of 4 in 2010 ) so their maximum " out-of-pocket " payment for annual premiums will be from 2 % to 9. 5 % of income, providing incentives for businesses to provide health care benefits, prohibiting denial of coverage and denial of claims based on pre-existing conditions, establishing health insurance exchanges, prohibiting insurers from establishing annual coverage caps, and support for medical research.

A further division is made between chukim (" decrees " — laws without obvious explanation, such as shatnez, the law prohibiting wearing clothing made of mixtures of linen and wool ), mishpatim (" judgments " — laws with obvious social implications ) and eduyot (" testimonies " or " commemorations ", such as the Shabbat and holidays ).

In 2011, a South African court banned " Dubulu iBhunu ( Shoot the Boer )," a derogatory song degrading Afrikaners, on the basis that it violated a South African law prohibiting speech that demonstrates a clear intention to be hurtful, to incite harm, or to promote hatred.

In 1834 James Frampton, a local landowner, wrote to the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, to complain about the union, invoking an obscure law from 1797 prohibiting people from swearing oaths to each other, which the members of the Friendly Society had done.

Mormons adhere to the Word of Wisdom, a health law or code that is interpreted as prohibiting the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, coffee and tea, while encouraging the use of wholesome herbs, grains, fruits, and a moderate consumption of meat.

Likewise, American law sought to contain addiction to immigrants by prohibiting Chinese from smoking opium in the presence of a white man.

Already in 1907, the Faroe Islands passed a law prohibiting all sale of alcohol, which was in force until 1992.

In 1853, inspired by the Maine law in the USA, the United Kingdom Alliance led by John Bartholomew Gough was formed aimed at promoting a similar law prohibiting the sale of alcohol in the UK.

Other considerations of the rules of international law, particularly those prohibiting the use of force and the acquisition of territory, are also relevant in that the Soviet authorities and, subsequently, the Azerbaijani government applied use of military and paramilitary force in ethnic cleansing initiatives like Operation Ring, while the Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh established militia forces to resist further pogroms and defend the civilian population by repelling Azeri forces.

The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

Though the Court upheld a law prohibiting the forgery, mutilation, or destruction of draft cards in United States v. O ' Brien,, fearing that burning draft cards would interfere with the " smooth and efficient functioning " of the draft system, the next year, the court handed down its decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio,, expressly overruling Whitney v. California, ( a case in which a woman was imprisoned for aiding the Communist Party ).

Johnson was promptly arrested and charged with violating a Texas law prohibiting the vandalizing of venerated objects.

The lax interpretation of Central Hudson adopted by Posadas was soon restricted under 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island,, when the Court invalidated a Rhode Island law prohibiting the publication of liquor prices.

The first law was the Packers and Stockyards Act, prohibiting packers from engaging in unfair and deceptive practices.

* August 10 – The Mines Act 1842 becomes law, prohibiting underground work for all women and boys under 10 years old in England.

Twenty-five years prior to the beginning of the opera, Iolanthe, the mistress of fairy revels, who arranged all the fairy dances and songs, committed the capital crime ( under fairy law ) of marrying a mortal human.

They also agreed that future monarchs should no longer be prohibited from marrying a Catholic – a law which dates from the Act of Settlement 1701, following the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

In 525, Justin repealed a law that effectively prohibited a member of the senatorial class from marrying a woman from a lower class of society, including the theatre, which was considered scandalous at the time.

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.

The most often cited interpretation for the badeken is that, according to, when Jacob went to marry Rachel, his father in law Laban tricked him into marrying Leah, Rachel's older and homlier sister.

As she was a slave, they were prohibited by law from marrying.

In 1996 as a reaction to a state level judicial ruling prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying that may violate Hawaii's constitutional equal protection clause ( Baehr v. Miike, 80 Hawai ` i 341 ), Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as a legal union of one man and one woman for the purpose of interpreting federal law.

By marrying Aspasia without obtaining the permission of the Archbishop, Alexander disobeyed the law and his attitude caused a major scandal in Greece.

His wife, like his father's wife, was from the wrong " skin " group and he violated the law of his people by marrying outside the classificatory kinship system ( see Australian Aboriginal kinship ).

In the Islamic law of marriage, the wali is a woman's closest adult male relative, who has authority and responsibility with respect to her marrying ; in this context, wali can be translated as " marriage guardian ".

For example, by marrying and living with one's spouse according to Torah law, one elevates sexual intimacy to an act bespeaking honor and respect to the God-given powers of procreation.

No law prohibited pregnant women from marrying, and there are well-known instances: Augustus married Livia when she was carrying her former husband's child, and the College of Pontiffs ruled that it was permissible as long as the child's father was determined first.

Her given name means " Tears of Spring " Her paternal grandfather was close to the French colonial administration, while her father, Trần Văn Chương, studied law in France, and practicing in Bac Lieu in the Mekong Delta before marrying into the ruling imperial dynasty.

Carrier worked in a law office in Paris until 1785 when he returned to Aurillac, marrying, joining the national guard and becoming a member of the Jacobin Club.

Monks's lawyers pointed out that the anti-miscegenation law effectively prohibited Monks as a mixed-race person from marrying anyone: " As such, she is prohibited from marrying a negro or any descendant of a negro, a Mongolian or an Indian, a Malay or a Hindu, or any descendants of any of them.

The U. S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions in a unanimous decision ( dated June 12, 1967 ), dismissing the Commonwealth of Virginia's argument that a law forbidding both white and black persons from marrying persons of another race, and providing identical penalties to white and black violators, could not be construed as racially discriminatory.

Although this measure passed into law, he attained this object in August 1755 by marrying Caroline Campbell ( d. 1794 ), the eldest daughter of the 2nd duke of Argyll and the widow of Francis, Lord Dalkeith, the eldest son of the 2nd duke of Buccleuch.

In the Roman Catholic Church, unwittingly marrying a closely consanguineous blood relative is grounds for an annulment, but dispensations were granted, actually almost routinely ( the Canon law of the Catholic Church banned marriages within the fourth degree of relationship cousins from at least the year 1215 ).

A two-child maximum is already a prerequisite for employment by the state, and the authorities are also considering enforcing a law to prevent women from marrying under the age of 18.

Most of Franklin's friends all have extended families that each contain the same grandparents on both sides of the family and parents who are brother and sister, since that there are no human beings and the people are different species of animals, each with different gestation periods and the law that forbids siblings and cousins from marrying each other does not exist and even marriage between siblings and cousins is legal in Franklin's world, due to the residents being many different species and even some of the people of different species would have to have more than one child or more likely twins.

There is also a law that forbids people of different species from marrying each other and a law that allows only people of about the same age to marry each other.

After marrying long-time girlfriend — law student Rianna Jennifer Cantor — in June 2002, Ponting credited her as the reason for his increased maturity.