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    Conscription Act Dbq

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    In 1863‚ seeing the confederates oncoming to the North‚ The Congress decided to recruit more people to the army. Consequently‚ the Conscription Act led to the riots in New York City during 11-16 July 1963 that is known in history as the Draft Week. In fact‚ the uprising was a rebellion of the Irish immigrants against the black inhabitants of New York‚ which finally became one of the most destructive riots in the history of the city. Iver Bernstein‚ the researcher of the draft riots‚ claims: “The

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    The Indian Succession Act

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    The Indian Succession Act The Indian Succession Act was enacted in 1925. The object of the Act was to consolidate the large number of laws which were in existence at that time. Laws governing succession to Muslims and Hindus were excluded from the purview of the Act. While consolidating the law in respect of succession‚ two schemes‚ one relating to succession to property of persons like Indian Christians‚ Jews and persons married under the Special Marriage Act‚ 1954 and the other relating to succession

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    Essay On The Stamp Act

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    The Stamp Act was the document that taxed many of the colonists goods like tea‚ food‚ newspaper‚ etc. The colonists were strongly affected by not being able to buy goods and other items. England had just came out of the Seven Years war and they were in war dept. In order to make back the money that the English lost‚ they passed the Stamp Act which taxed all the colonist’s goods. Across from the Atlantic Ocean the colonists were forced to boycott. Over sea the colonists were furious that the English

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    Fugitive Slave Acts

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    Slave Act of 1793 was an effort to provide a means to enforce the constitutional clause concerning escaped slaves. The act allowed a slave owner to seize an escaped slave‚ present the slave before a federal or local judge‚ and‚ upon proof of ownership‚ receive a certificate authorizing the slave to be retaken. It also established a penalty of 500 dollars for obstructing an owner’s efforts to retake a slave‚ or for rescuing‚ harboring‚ or concealing a fugitive slave. Most Northerners saw the act as providing

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    Whether one chooses to view the text by title of The Acts of Paul‚ The Acts of Thecla‚ or The Acts of Paul and Thecla‚ shows how one is likely to view the tale itself. An entirely different perspective can be formed from reading the various versions by different names. For instance‚ when reading The Acts of Paul‚ the story is focused on Paul and his contributions to Christianity. When reading The Acts of Paul and Thecla or simply The Acts of Thecla‚ a new perspective is formed viewed in a feminine

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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    February 06 Sarbanes-Oxley Act The "Sarbanes-Oxley Act" is a comprehensive corporate reform package that was signed into the US law on July 30‚ 2002. The passage of the Act has been heralded by some as a historic occasion—calling it the most significant accounting legislation since 1933‚ while others have severely criticized the Act either as a "too little too late measure" or as a hasty knee jerk reaction to a temporary situation. Without a doubt‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the single most important

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    Tobacco Control Act

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    The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 On February 12‚ 2012 a federal court ruled that the new graphic warning labels scheduled to be placed on cigarettes packages in September 2012 violate tobacco companies’ first Amendment right. These warning labels were required by The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 which was signed by President Obama on June 22‚ 2009. Rep. henry A. Waxman‚ the author and champion of the Food and Drug Administration-tobacco

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    The Affordable Care Act

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    Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the new health care reform law in America and is often called by its nick-name Obamacare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are made up of the Affordable Health Care for America Act‚ the Patient Protection Act‚ and the health care related sections of the The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act and the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. It also includes amendments to other laws like the Food‚ Drug and Cosmetics Act and the

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    (1861)‚ see Utilitarianism (book). The Utilitarianism series‚ part of the Politics series Utilitarian Thinkers[show] Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Henry Sidgwick Peter Singer Forms[show] preference utilitarianism rule utilitarianism act utilitarianism Two-level utilitarianism Total utilitarianism Average utilitarianism Negative utilitarianism animal welfare Abolitionism (bioethics) Hedonism Enlightened self-interest Predecessors[show] Epicurus David Hume William

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    Data Protetion Act

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    Protection Act on e-marketing This guide is based on UK law. It was last updated in March 2008. Topics • Advertising and marketing • Commercial The law relating to data protection is designed to regulate organisations known as data controllers who collect and process information relating to living and identifiable individuals and to provide those individuals with rights in relation to such data. In the UK the position is currently governed by the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act")‚ which

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