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  2. List of United States federal legislation - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation. Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 118 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.

  3. Strange laws - Wikipedia

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    Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.

  4. Sodomy laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has inherited sodomy laws which constitutionally outlawed a variety of sexual acts that are deemed to be illegal, illicit, unlawful, unnatural and/or immoral from the colonial-era based laws in the 17th century. [1]

  5. An obsolete law contributed to the events of Jan. 6. Here’s ...

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    The top priority for the lame-duck session of Congress should be to revise the Electoral Count Act of 1887, writes Erwin Chemerinsky. | Opinion

  6. Ugly law - Wikipedia

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    From 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. [1] These laws targeted poor people and disabled people . For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or ...

  7. Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial sexual relations. Some of these laws predated the establishment of the United States, and some dated to the later 17th or early 18th century, a century or more after the complete racialization of ...

  8. Desuetude - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine exists in Scotland, being of the civil law tradition, where it can operate as a rare form of repeal. In Scotland, non-use is not the same as desuetude. Disuse must be accompanied by other identifiable provisions that would make the enforcement of the statute inconsistent: neglect over such a period of time that it would appear that a contrary custom had developed; and that a ...

  9. Landlines may seem obsolete, but people in these states pick ...

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    Public funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, American Rescue Plan, Consolidated Appropriations Act, and annual budgets put $83.1 billion toward expanding affordable and reliable high ...