Examples of Act of 1875 in a sentence
Still, a far cry from the slogan land of the free.The laws effectively made void the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which granted all Americans equal rights regardless of race, as well as 14th and 15th Amendments.
The Contractor should be aware that each MOD Establishment is covered by The Explosives Act of 1875 and 1923.
John Hope Franklin, The Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, 6 PROLOGUE 225, 234 (1974).
Indeed, as the Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883) (invalidating those parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 that imposed nondiscrimination obligations on private businesses), indicated, the Supreme Court began to erode Republican legislative and constitutional gains fairly quickly.
Primary responsibility shifted to the states after this Court invalidated the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
After the Civil Rights Act of 1875, Congress’s first attempt to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race in places of public accommodation, was found to exceed Congress’s power under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, southern states introduced a steady onslaught of legislation to ensure that African Americans remained segregated from whites in nearly every aspect of society.
The Civil Rights Act of 1875, which made it a crime for one person to deprive another of equal accommodations at inns, theaters or public conveyances, was found to exceed the powers conferred on Congress by the Thir- teenth and Fourteenth Amendments and hence to be an unlawful invasion of the powers reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment.
Second, and more importantly, the discussion focused on the constitutional question of the power of Congress to legislate the Civil Rights Act of 1875 in light of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Torrens Act of 1868 said that landlords had to keep their property in good repair and the Artisans Dwellings Act of 1875 gave local authorities power to remove slums.
The SNI sought redress for, among other things, the 1788 Phelps Gorham purchase, the 1797 Morris purchase, the cessions to the Ogden Land Company in 1823, 1826 and 1838, and the Allegany Reservation land leases validated by the Act of 1875 and extended pursuant to the Act of 1890.