A balancing act or juggling act is an attempt to do several different things or deal with several different situations at the same time.
The Insurrection Act is a U.S. federal law passed in 1807 that originally expanded the U.S. president’s authority to employ state militias to repel invasions or to enforce federal laws.
This is a chronologically ordered list of legislative acts and laws organized by country or historical empire or
USA PATRIOT Act, U.S. legislation passed by Congress in response to the , terrorist attacks and signed into law by President George W. Bush in October 2001. It significantly expanded the search and surveillance powers of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
In 1866 U.S. Senate Judiciary Chairman Lyman Trumbull from Illinois introduced the first federal civil rights bill in U.S. history. The bill, which later became the Civil Rights Act of 1866, was part of a Reconstruction-era Republican legislative program designed to shore up the objectives of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill (passed in March 1865) and implement the intentions of the Thirteenth ...
Civil Rights Act, comprehensive U.S. legislation enacted in 1964 that was intended to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. It is often called the most important U.S. law on civil rights since Reconstruction (1865–77) and is a hallmark of the American civil rights movement.
Force Acts, in U.S. history, series of four acts passed by Republican Reconstruction supporters in the Congress between , and , to protect the constitutional rights guaranteed to blacks by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The major provisions of the acts authorized federal authorities to enforce penalties upon anyone interfering with the registration, voting ...