Ravi Batra argues that " all official economic measures adopted since 1981 ... have devastated the middle class " and that the Occupy Wall Street movement should push for their repeal and thus end the influence of the super wealthy in the political process, which he considers a manifestation of crony capitalism.

Patrick Guerriero, executive director of Log Cabin, thought the repeal movement was gaining " new traction " but " Ultimately ," said, " we think it's going to take a Republican with strong military credentials to make a shift in the policy.

This hypocrisy and the fact that women led the prohibition movement convinced her to start the organization that eventually led to the repeal of prohibition.

When Parliament passed the first of the Contagious Diseases Acts in 1864 ( which allowed the local constabulary to force any woman suspected of venereal disease to submit to its inspection ), Josephine Butler's crusade to repeal the CD Acts yoked the anti-prostitution cause with the emergent feminist movement.

* The Moderation League of New York becomes part of the movement for the repeal of prohibition in the United States.

In 1932, wealthy industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. stated in a letter: As more and more Americans opposed the Eighteenth Amendment, a political movement grew for its repeal.

In the early 1840s, the younger members of the repeal movement became impatient with O ’ Connell ’ s over-cautious policies, and began to question his intentions.

In the late 18th century the Dublin Parliament won legislative independence and the movement for the repeal of the Test Acts began.

Whereas home rule meant a constitutional movement towards a national All-Ireland parliament in part under Westminster, repeal meant the repeal of the 1801 Act of Union ( if need be, by physical force ) and the creation of an entirely independent Irish state, separated from the United Kingdom, with only a shared monarch joining them both.

The Chartist movement demanded basic economic reforms, higher wages and better conditions of work, and a repeal of the obnoxious Poor Law Act.

The repeal of such restrictive laws, generally known as Jim Crow laws, was a key focus of the civil rights movement prior to 1954.

During the early 1840s, the younger members of the repeal movement became impatient with O ’ Connell ’ s over-cautious policies, and began to question his intentions.

The English Parliament retaliated with the 1705 Alien Act, threatening to cut trade and free movement between the two countries, unless negotiations opened leading either to the repeal of the Act of Security, or ( as in the event happened ) to the Act of Union in 1707.

With opposition to the war mounting, a movement to repeal the resolution — which war critics decried as having given the Johnson administration a " blank check "— began to gather steam.

The appeal of the League was popular with the workers since bread was high, and it claimed that repeal would cause the price to drop, but three factors were important in resisting exodus from the Chartist movement to the League:

When hope of Corn Law repeal was strengthened by statements of PM Robert Peel, many Chartists left the movement for the League.

The movement became supporters of the Catholic Committee, which had been working to get Catholic Emancipation bills through Parliament, repeal the remaining Penal Laws and abolish the Tithe laws.

It was the scene of riots in 1768, agitating for the release of John Wilkes and, more seriously, was the starting point of the Gordon Riots in 1780 which began in the movement to repeal the act of parliament removing penalties for Catholics.

The Massachusetts House of Representatives began a campaign against the Townshend Acts by first sending a petition to King George asking for the repeal of the Revenue Act, and then sending a letter to the other colonial assemblies, asking them to join the resistance movement.

In 2003, she directed her first documentary, Sixty Spins Around the Sun, which chronicles the New York City street movement to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

On rescinding his involvement with the Chartists, he became involved in the movement to repeal the Corn Laws.

Encouraging the repeal of the Acts of Union, members of the Young Ireland movement advocated the removal of British authority from Ireland and the re-establishment of the Irish Parliament in Dublin.

Gibson was the leading spirit in the movement for the repeal of taxes on knowledge, and his successful efforts on behalf of journalism and advertising were recognized by a public testimonial in 1862.

Proponents of repeal argue that the clause is a bigoted anachronism ; Cardinal Winning, who was leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, called the act an " insult " to Catholics.

The only exception to this rule is New Year's Day, in which case alcohol sales are permitted until 4 a. m. Alcohol sale was likewise banned on Sundays until 12p. m., and on Dec. 25 from 12 a. m. until 12 p. m, until a repeal in late 2010.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

Henry was forced to repeal the disputed laws and to abandon his efforts to hold church members accountable for secular crimes ( see also Constitutions of Clarendon ).

Robert Peel was able to reconcile the new industrial class to the Tory landed class by persuading the latter to accept the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.

Smith's economics was carried into practice in the 19th century with the lowering of tariffs in the 1820s, the repeal of the Poor Relief Act, that had restricted the mobility of labour, in 1834, and the end of the rule of the East India Company over India in 1858.

However, repeal of the Corn Laws came too late to stop Irish famine, partly because it was done in stages over three years.

Although he sought to slow or contain the New Deal and other federal programs, he did not attempt to repeal them outright and in doing so was popular among the liberal wing of the Republican Party.

A congressional bill to repeal DADT was enacted in December 2010, specifying that the policy would remain in place until the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certified that repeal would not harm military readiness, followed by a 60-day waiting period.

" This statement was quickly followed up by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Michael Mullen voicing their support for a repeal of DADT.

A major flash point was the 1997 repeal of Nasser-era land reform policies under pressure for structural adjustment.

The System does not require public funding, and derives its authority and purpose from the Federal Reserve Act, which was passed by Congress in 1913 and is subject to Congressional modification or repeal.

The Quaker William Penn was sent to The Hague but William opposed repeal.

While Bland's bill was defeated, so was a bill the administration favored that would repeal any silver coinage requirement.

All other firearms held in custody remained there however, until the repeal of the Garda policy following a high court case taken by an Irish shooter ( Frank Brophy ) to obtain a licence for an Olympic target shooting pistol succeeded and the licence was granted.

This was exacerbated after the repeal of the Corn Laws in mid-century, when Britain adopted a free trade policy, and grain imports from America undermined the profitability of crop production.

Smith was a " wet " who called for its repeal, whereas Hoover gave limited support for prohibition, calling it an " experiment noble in purpose ".

The constitution of the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among other things, repeal a provision ( Article 3, Section 5 ) which had until its repeal prohibited " idiots or insane persons " from voting.

Pierce was persuaded to support repeal, and, at Douglas ’ insistence, Pierce provided a written draft asserting that the Missouri Compromise had been made inoperative by the principles of the Compromise of 1850.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

In addition, it replaced the Court's two annual sessions with one session to begin on the first Monday in February, and " canceled the Supreme Court term scheduled for June of that year ... seeking to delay a ruling on the constitutionality of the repeal act until months after the new judicial system was in operation.