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Preferred term
documents and acts shaping the American system of criminal justice
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- anti-federalist papers
- Articles of Confederation
- Bail Reform Act
- Bible
- Bill of Rights
- Body of Liberties
- Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- colonial charters and grants
- declaration of independence
- Dyer Act
- Elkins Act of 1903
- Emergency Quota Act of 1921
- Enforcement Acts of 1870-1871
- English charter of liberties of 1100
- Espionage Act of 1917
- Ethics in Government Act of 1978
- Federalist Papers
- Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
- Freedom of Information Act of 1966
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- Habeas Corpus Act of 1679
- Habeas Corpus Act of 1863
- Harrison Act of 1914
- Homestead Act of 1862
- Independent Treasury Act
- Indian Civil Rights Act
- Indian Removal Act
- Internal Security Act of 1950
- Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
- Intolerable Acts of 1774
- Judiciary Act of 1789
- Landrum-Griffin Act of 1859
- Law Enforcement Assistance Act
- laws and liberties of massachusetts
- lindbergh law
- Magna Carta
- Mann Act
- Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
- mayflower compact
- National Security Act
- Northwest Ordinance
- Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
- Pendleton Act of 1883
- presidential proclamations
- proclamation for suppressing rebellion and sedition of 1775
- Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
- reports on prison conditions
- Sedition Act of 1918
- Selective Service Act of 1967
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
- Smith Act
- Stamp Act of 1765
- state blue laws
- state slave codes
- Tea Act of 1773
- Townshend Acts of 1767
- United States Constitution
- USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
- vice commission
- Violence Against Women Act of 1994
- Volstead Act
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/documents_and_acts_shaping_the_American_system_of_criminal_justice
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