Canada judicial decision and the Constitution Act of 1982. ... This was mainly due the fact that the Supreme Court of Canada judges supported the idea that aboriginal title may exist at common law, separate from the Royal Proclamation Act or other Canadian legislative acts. ... In addition Mahoney J. had to determine what criteria were necessary to claim aboriginal title to land.5 Mahoney J. created four criteria to determine right to title that would be widely used for many years after the case. (1) That the plaintiff (Aboriginals) and their ancestors were members of an organized society. (2...

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In 1964 after this term was coined, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act increased the authority of affirmative action agents to institute quotas and preferential hiring to increase representation of minorities and to ameliorate discrimination. ... Although affirmative action in the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination within minority groups involving employment, it did not cover educational institutions. Consequently, the Equal Employment Act of 1972 forced colleges and universities to admit members of minorities in greater numbers, especially in professional and graduate schools. ... Yet the...

• Word Count: 1414
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This Act was immediately implemented in schools, places of employment, government facilities and all public places. Almost ten years after the passing of this Act, the trial of Lau v. ... Constitution, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... Nichols The Supreme Court unanimously favored Lau and found that, rather than violating the Equal Rights Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the actions by the San Francisco Unified School District had indeed violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI regulates requirements and federal funding given to aid in the educational pract...

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Towards the end of President John Adams term Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801. ... The Judiciary Act passed by Congress in 1789 stood in his way. This act made it unconstitutional to for the Supreme Court to issue such a writ. ... Marshall then took it a step further and declared part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional. ... If an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1991, Supreme Court upholds Title X gag rule (restriction on mentioning abortion in federally funded clinics) in Rust vs. ... In 1994, President Clinton signed Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) making it a federal crime to interfere with the provision of reproductive health care. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This was Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... In 1972 the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was implemented. Hiring and promotion of minorities has shown tremendous increase since this act was passed into law. ...

• Word Count: 1980
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Sanford's name by a court cleric that remains on the case title to this day. ... He concluded, "Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the court that the act of congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory to the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the constitution, and is therefore void; and that neither Dred Scott himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into this territory..." [6] The decision laid down by the supreme law of the land just overturned the Missouri...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 2001, all the states, Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, and the four insular areas of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa will get this grant by Title V of Public Law 95-134 or the Omnibus Territories Act. ...

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Although the official title was gone, the whites had managed to reassert their status as "masters" to the Southern Blacks through scare tactics and "economic policies". ... The Supreme Court supported the Southerners" push for black social subordination, when in 1883 the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was nullified. ...

• Word Count: 1530
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate