"This oppression, combined with efforts to eradicate queer people from the police, military and civil service, blighted and distorted lives for decades – to this day, in fact – despite the eventual change of direction by government. Cruel and exclusionary legislation was gradually repealed, and ...
groups it accommodated.” (Bade 40) The heterogeneity is based on the large number of varying ancestries within the population that immigrated to the North American continent. Neither the majority population, nor the minorities share a single common ancestry. But what does the term ancestry mean...
What does it mean when an act has been repealed? A repeal isthe removal of a law or provision of that law from the statute book. If a provision is repealed, a new compilation will be prepared to remove the provision. A law that has been repealed will display on the Legislation Regis...
The DEP repealed the regulationin 1999, after proving carbon dioxide levels has dropped enough to be in compliance with the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for my vehicle? The summer blend gas is actually good for your vehicle, according to the experts at GasBuddy.com. “Aside from any...
Like many of the states, California has adopted and therefore requires the Office of the Legislative Counsel to draft measures (bills, resolutions, and constitutional amendments) in a gender-neutral manner. What does that mean? How does it work? Specific to California is Assembly Concurrent Resolut...
Does that mean stores can ship to those states right now? Unfortunately that question can't be answered at the national level, and that is one limitation of an otherwise broad ruling. States are allowed to regulate their alcohol markets for the health and safety of residents. Does requiring ...
HARRISBURG — Abortion is legal in Pennsylvania. And with a Democratic governor in power who supports access, it will almost certainly remain so for at least the next three years. But that doesn’t mean it’s as easy to get an abortion in the commonwealth as supporters want it to be. ...
“It does not deter offending. “The second thing is that it removes the judicial discretion of judges. “It turns judges into rubber stamps basically, and I don’t think that’s helpful for justice in New Zealand.” Thirdly, he said the legislation led to “manifestly unjust” outcomes ...
“It does not deter offending. “The second thing is that it removes the judicial discretion of judges. “It turns judges into rubber stamps basically, and I don’t think that’s helpful for justice in New Zealand.” Thirdly, he said the legislation led to “manifestly unjust” outcomes ...
To take an obvious example, if the profits of slavery in the Southern states of America were used to invest in factories in the Northern states (as they were), does giving the land to the freed slaves in 1865 really signify the end of the injustice that situation produced? Surely the pro...