legal history

An Act of Congress occurs when both houses of Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate) pass an identical bill with a majority and the 

Determining what constitutes an antique firearm is part of an overall regulatory system intended to limit the regulation of historic and out-of-date weapons that are deemed ill-suited for committing acts of violence.

The three key federal statutes in Antitrust Law are Sherman Act Section 1, Sherman Act Section 2, and the Clayton Act.

Apartheid refers to the implementation and maintenance of a system of legalized racial segregation in which one racial group is deprived of political and civil rights.

An appropriations bill is a piece of legislation that indicates where public funds are to be allocated in a budget. 

Bad tendency was a legal standard used to determine whether political speech was protected by the first amendment. Speech that was harmful to public welfare or that could incite illegal acts failed the bad tendency test; and therefore, was not protected by freedom of speech.

Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962) is a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that federal courts could hear cases alleging that a state’s drawing of electoral boundaries, (i.e.

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was enacted by the 107th Congress, 2nd Session, and signed into law by President Bush on March 27, 2002 to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (now located at Title 52, Subtitle III of the U.S.

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Bench refers to the seat where the judge sits in the courtroom, and the term is used to refer to the judge. It can be used to describe all the judges of a particular court, such as the second circuit bench, or “full bench”, which refers to all the judges of a court.

Birthright citizenship is the principle that all people born in a territory of a state automatically become citizens of that territory with a few limited exceptions.