Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.

Cobden, Richard. 1804-65. British Radical MP. Anti-Corn Law League.

Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.

African National Congress. ANC. 1912-. Organization for black rights in South Africa outlawed to 1990. 1994- Ruling party. Mandela.

Alaric II. -507. King of Visigoths 484-, beaten by Clovis, 507. Law code 506 for Roman subjects.

Alfonso X (the Wise). 1221-84. King of León and Castile. Codified laws, first history of Spain.

Ali. 4th Caliph, 656-661. Son-in-law of Muhammad. Succession led to Sunni/Shi’ite split. Moslem Civil War.

Alien Registration Act. 1940. Outlaws advocating violent overthrow of US government. Extended to include all advocates of Communism. McCarthy.

Anarchism. 19C Philosophy: “Every man should be his own government, his own law, his own church”-Owen. Thoreau’s return to nature, passive resistance, and no taxes influenced Ghandi. Proudhon. Tolstoy. Godwin.

Anti-Socialist Law. 1878-90. Germans ban unions.

Antinomianism. 16C Belief that some Christians by special faith need not obey Old Testament moral laws.

Apostolic Constitutions. c380BC. Books of ecclesiastic law.

Audencia. Medieval law court in Spain.

Bailey, Old. London Law Courts. Building 1907.

Banda, Hastings. c1902-97. Autocratic Malawi President 1963-. 1971- “President for Life”.

Bean, Roy. 1825-1903. US frontier judge. “The Law West of the Pecos”.

Billy the Kid. 1859-81. US frontier outlaw.

Black Codes. 1865-6. Strict US local laws to control blacks based on slave codes. Freedmen. Jim Crow.

Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.

Blue Laws. US laws that control Sunday activities. 1781 originals on blue paper.

Bode, Johann. 1747-1826. German astronomer: Laws of planetary distances, 1766.

Boyle, Robert. 1627-91. English scientist. Gas law: given T, PV=k, 1662.

Bragg, William. 1862-1942. English discoverer of crystallography by x-ray diffraction. with son Lawrence (1890-1971).

Brehon Laws. (Feinechus) 8-17C. Irish legal system.

Breviary of Alaric. 506. Visigoth law code.

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