Download or read book The Legal Universe written by Vine Deloria, Jr. and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Deloria and Wilkins, "Whenever American minorities have raised voices of protest, they have been admonished to work within the legal system that seek its abolition." This essential work examines the historical evolution of the legal rights of various minority groups and the relationship between these rights and the philosophical intent of the American founders.

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Download or read book Crossing Over the Line written by David J. Langum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing over the Line describes the folly of the Mann Act of 1910—a United States law which made travel from one state to another by a man and a woman with the intent of committing an immoral act a major crime. Spawned by a national wave of "white slave trade" hysteria, the Act was created by the Congress of the United States as a weapon against forced prostitution. This book is the first history of the Mann Act's often bizarre career, from its passage to the amendment that finally laid it low. In David J. Langum's hands, the story of the Act becomes an entertaining cautionary tale about the folly of legislating private morality. Langum recounts the colorful details of numerous court cases to show how enforcement of the Act mirrored changes in America's social attitudes. Federal prosecutors became masters in the selective use of the Act: against political opponents of the government, like Charlie Chaplin; against individuals who eluded other criminal charges, like the Capone mobster "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn; and against black men, like singer Chuck Berry and boxer Jack Johnson, who dared to consort with white women. The Act engendered a thriving blackmail industry and was used by women like Frank Lloyd Wright's wife to extort favorable divorce settlements. "Crossing over the Line is a work of scholarship as wrought by a civil libertarian, and the text . . . sizzles with the passion of an ardent believer in real liberty under reasonable laws."—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

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Download or read book Report of the Attorney General for the Year Ending Classic Reprint written by Massachusetts; Attorney General' Office and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Attorney General for the Year Ending The work involved the interpretation of existing statutes as well as drafting, and assisting in the drafting of, new legislation. As in the past, we rendered opinions to the Governor on bills relating to legal matters coming before him for his signature. In addition to the handling by the staff of the great volume of business coming before the office in the ordinary course, the Division of Civil Rights and Liberties, and the Division of Consumer Counsel, both of which I established, continued their programs for the protection of the civil rights of citizens, and the protection of the consumer. Statements of the more important activities of those divisions, and of the other divisions and units of the department, are set forth below. Consumer Council and Division of Consumer Counsel. The Advisory Consumer Council consisting of ten leading economists and experts in the field of consumer problems which I appointed in 1958, continued its efforts on behalf of the consumer, and, working in conjunction with my Division of Consumer Counsel, concentrated on five main fields of activity, namely, (1) Milk, (2) Transportation, (3) Antitrust, (4) Consumer Fraud, (5) Public Utilities. Milk. As a result of the challenge by the Attorney General's Advisory Consumer Council of the legality of the price-fixing order entered by the Milk Control Commission, the commission made findings purporting to show continued need for price regulation of retail sales. Under the statutes, this finding had to be submitted to the Milk Regulation Board for review and approval. On July 1, the board met and by a 2-2 tie ended the price regulations. Several dealers then commenced a price war which threatened the financial security of the smaller dealers. Because the commission was unable or unwilling to stop these price wars, I called upon the Federal Trade Commission for assistance. In cooperation with my office, we developed sufficient facts to enable us to start actions at State and Federal levels to attempt to stop the unfair competition. Most of these cases were still pending at the end of the current fiscal year. Professor Philip Gamble, a member of the Consumer Council, and I appeared before a special Congressional Subcommittee on Small Business Problems in the Dairy Industry, to review for the committee the whole problem of milk control and milk prices in the Commonwealth. Also, with the concurrence of the Advisory Consumer Council, I announced my unalterable opposition to proposed legislation which would impose permanent milk price fixing in the greater Boston area. I again sponsored legislation to constitute the Consumer Council as a statutory body with rights to appeal rate decisions in the courts. This bill passed the House but was defeated in the Senate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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