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  2. Culture of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Texas is diverse, shaped by significant migration from the American North and West, differing from its eastern neighbours in the Deep South.It encompasses regional and cultural influences from German Texan, Tejanos, Cajuns, Irish, African American, and White Anglo-Southern communities established before the republic era and statehood.

  3. Culture of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Law in the United States is mainly enforced by local police departments and sheriff's offices. The state police provides broader services, and federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Marshals Service have specialized duties, such as protecting civil rights , national security and enforcing U.S. federal ...

  4. Immigration policy in Texas - Wikipedia

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    As a consequence of Texas leaving Mexico and joining the United States, many Mexican Americans never moved from their homes but lived in two nations, and there is a popular saying among Mexican Americans which states, "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us." [7] The current border of Texas was not established until the Compromise of ...

  5. Legal culture - Wikipedia

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    The traditional focus between common law culture and civil law culture has been highlighted by court room procedure, whereby the former nurtures an adversarial environment and the latter an inquisitorial one. Indeed no system of court procedure can ever be purely adversarial or purely inquisitorial.

  6. Trump Is Banned From Separating Families—But Could Fight It

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    The U.S. agreed in a settlement last year to an eight-year ban on Trump's family separation policy. A lead lawyer in the case is prepared in case Trump ignores the ban—or tries to nullify it.

  7. Legal positivism - Wikipedia

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    In jurisprudence and legal philosophy, legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts, such as acts of legislation, judicial decisions, and customs, rather than on morality. This contrasts with natural law theory, which holds that law is necessarily connected to morality in such a way that ...

  8. College Football Playoff Round 1 Overreaction: home field ...

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    🖥️ Watch this full episode on YouTube Check out all the episodes of the College Football Enquirer and the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at Yahoo ...

  9. Customary law - Wikipedia

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    Customary law is a recognized source of law within jurisdictions of the civil law tradition, where it may be subordinate to both statutes and regulations. In addressing custom as a source of law within the civil law tradition, John Henry Merryman notes that, though the attention it is given in scholarly works is great, its importance is "slight ...