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62 matches to Immigration Laws
Fair Labor Standards Act. 1938. US fixes minimum wage(25¢/hr), child labor laws, 44hr week.
Gay-Lussac, Louis. 1778-1850. French chemist. Laws of combining gases, 1804. Meteorology.
Gentili, Alberico. 1552-1608. Italian jurist. International laws on the conduct of war.
Grattan, Henry. 1746-1820. Irish independence leader. Irish Parliament 1782. Poyning’s Law repeal movement.
Grotius, Hugo. 1583-1645. Dutch jurist. Laws of War and Peace 1625.
Idealism, Philosophical. Reality is a consciousness of abstract laws vs sensory-based Materialism.
Indulgence, Declaration. 1662,72. Charles II grants toleration of Nonconformists. Voided by Parliament. 1687. James II suspends penal laws against Catholics causing Glorious Revolution.
Jim Crow Laws. 1877-1964. US laws allowing segregation.
Las Casas, Bartolomé de. 1474-1566. Spanish missionary to South America. New Laws 1542. Historia de las Indias.
Legislative. Branch of a government that enacts laws.
Leonardo da Vinci. 1452-1519. Florentine painter, writer, sculptor, scientist. Prototypical Renaissance Man. Sfumato. Laws of Flight. Adoration of Magi 1479. Last Supper 1495. Mona Lisa 1503. Parachute 1480.
March Laws. 1848. Hungarian independence during Revolution.
Mishna. 3C. Collection of Jewish oral laws in the Talmud.
Napoleonic Code. 1804-. French laws standardized. Personal liberty, equality, justice, divorce, marriage, property rights. Still in use.
Nehru, Pandit Jawaharial. 1889-1964. Congress Movement 1929-. First Indian Prime Minister 1947-. Rationalized Hindu laws.
Norman Conquest. 1066. Brought Norman laws, customs, feudal system to England. Hastings.
Nuremberg Laws. 1935. German Jews lose citizenship and rights.
Ohm, Georg. 1787-1854. German physicist: Laws of electric current, 1826.
Oriental Canon Law. 880. Ecclesiastical laws of Eastern Christian churches.
Pale. Region of a country subject to separate laws or government. 1171-16C part of Ireland subject to English rule. Pale of Settlement 1792-1917, Jews in Russia.
Paris, Treaties. 1229 Ends Albigensian Crusade. Louis gains Toulouse. 1327. England loses territory to France. 1763 Ends Seven Years War. Britain gets French holdings in Canada. Spain gets American territory. 1783 Ends American Revolution. US borders fixed. 1814 Ends Napoleonic Wars, restoring 1792 borders. Napoleon exiled to Elba. 1815 Ends Hundred Days. 1790 borders, reparations. Napoleon to St. Helena. 1856 Ends Crimean War. Black Sea neutral. Regulated Laws of High Seas. 1898 Ends Spanish American War. Spain cedes Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico to US. 1947. Settled European borders after WWII.
Peel, Robert. 1788-1850. English Prime Minister 1834~46. London police force 1829. Income Tax 1842. Founded Conservative Party. Bank Charter Act. Repealed Corn Laws 1846.
Penal Laws. 16C-1829. English persecution of Catholics.
Poor Laws. 1597, 1601, 1834. British parishes to aid poor, establish workhouses, abolish slavery. Replaced 1930-50.
Positivism. Knowledge based on senses alone. Personal knowledge. Natural laws lead to social engineering to secure a happy society. Comte. Mill. Spencer. Logical Positivism.