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66 matches to Penal Laws
De Vries. Mutation laws, 1901.
Deuteronomy. 5th Book of Bible. Includes 10 Commandments and other laws. Law code found c622BC in Temple of Jerusalem.
Draft Riots. 1863. New York City workers vs Union army draft laws.
Enlightenment. 17-18C. Intellectual movement. Rationalism, natural laws vs dogma, authority. J-J Rousseau. Smith. Mendlessohn. Fontenelle. Voltaire. Montesquieu. Hume. Berkeley. Sturm und Drang.
Executive Branch. Department of US government which carries out laws, under supervision of President.
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.
Immigration Laws. 1852. US bars Chinese. 1900 Japanese. 1921- set quotas by country of origin.
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.