The Organic Act of 1890 is another type of organic law that designated Oklahoma as United States territory, opening the region to homesteading. Much of this land was previously deemed Native American territory, and it took Congress more than a year to decide to include the territory in the Act...
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by Pres.Chester A. Arthurin 1882. It lasted for 10 years and was extended for another 10 years by the 1892Geary Act, which also required that people of Chinese origin carry identification certificates or facedeportation. Later measures...
Private Enforcement of Constitutional Guarantees in the Ku Klux Act of 1871 When violations of constitutional guarantees are difficult to detect and enforce, Congress may be attracted to solutions which allow aggrieved individuals ... Paul,J.,Gardner - 《Constitutional Studies》 被引量: 0发表: 2016...
Civil Rights Revolution Comes to Immigration Law: A New Look at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, The 414 (retaining restriction of naturalization to "free white person[s]"). 26. and allowed Chinese aliensto naturalize.36 In 1946, Congress extended these pr... GJ Chin - 《Immigr...
The meaning of INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830 is one of the first legislative steps in creating the reservation system from which 25 U.S.C. § 174 is derived. Despite a 1789 act of Congress, 1 Stat. 137, declaring that the land rights of Native Americans mus
In the same year, Congress passed the Federal Credit Union Act, which permitted credit unions to be organized anywhere in the United States. 同年,国会通过了联邦信用合作社法案,允许在美国境内自由组建信用合作社。 www.kouyitianxia.cn 2. The Trade Union Act of 1871 legalized the trade unions and ...
of citizenship, granting “equal protection” of the Constitution to formerly enslaved people, before they could rejoin the Union. In February 1869, Congress approved the15th Amendment(adopted in 1870), which guaranteed that a citizen’s right to vote would not be denied “on account of race, ...
In the final year of the presidency ofHarry S. Truman, Congress further amended the Immigration Act of 1917 with its passage of theImmigration and Nationality Act of 1952, known as the McCarran-Walter Act. The law allowed Japanese, Korean, and other Asian immigrants to seek naturalization and...
Congress sought to enforce those guarantees through the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Enforcement Act of 1870, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1871 and 1875, each of which solidified protection of the rights of blacks by expanding the rights of national citizenship. In the 1870's and 1880's,...
- 1882, Congress p***ed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which, per the terms of the Angell Treaty, suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers (skilled or unskilled)...- The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act (Pub. L. ...