what was the first state to pass anti kelo laws?
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At the time the decision was passed, 8 states already specifically forbid the use of eminent domain in order to further economic development: Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, South Carolina and Washington. It would seem that New Hampshire was the first to pass something to block the use of eminent domain for economic development, passing a constitutional amendment through their legislature in March of 2005.
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First one that I know of. Ohio made sure they exposed the perpetrators, and rid their State of them, since the State was 85% Democrat to begin with. Pennsylvania was the same thing. Gore won the election of 2000, and America knows it too.
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No law has been passed in any state allowing same sex marriage. The only state in which same sex marriage is legal is Massachusetts, and it is legal there because a court ruled that banning homosexuals from marrying was unconstitutional, based on the Massachusetts state constitution.\n\nThe judges' ruling was based on the idea that granting homosexual couples different opportunities is inherently unequal and since the state produced no compelling reason why homosexuals should be forced into this unequal status, it cannot be constitutional.
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Here goes!!!\n\nIn March 1959, both houses of Congress passed the Admission Act and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law. (The act excluded Palmyra Atoll, part of the Kingdom and Territory of Hawaiʻi, from the new state.) On June 27 of that year, a plebiscite was held asking residents of Hawaiʻi to vote on accepting the statehood bill. Hawaiʻi voted 17 to 1 to accept. On August 21, church bells throughout Honolulu were rung upon the proclamation that Hawaiʻi was the 50th state of the Union.
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How about being the first state to ratify the Constitution?
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By 1965 concerted efforts to break the grip of state disfranchisement had been under way for some time, but had achieved only modest success overall and in some areas had proved almost entirely ineffectual. The murder of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, gained national attention, along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism. Finally, the unprovoked attack on March 7, 1965, by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, en route to the state capitol in Montgomery, persuaded the President and Congress to overcome Southern legislators' resistance to effective voting rights legislation. President Johnson issued a call for a strong voting rights law and hearings began soon thereafter on the bill that would become the Voting Rights Act.
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It is a very complicated question.  State do have sovereign immunity from suits claiming that they have violated federal law, unless the states have waived that immunity as they sometimes do.  This immunity shields them from paying damages for past acts, though not against injunctive relief to prevent the actions in the future.  This immunity does not apply to counties, cities or smaller political divisions in a state.\n\nBeginning about 10 years ago the Supreme Court started issuing a series of opinions greatly strengthening the immunity enjoyed by states, as part of the conservative federalist legal revolution.\n\nTHis is a complicated and changing area of US law, so the precise answer you are interested in may depend on the facts involved.
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In Chisholm v. Georgia (1792), the Supreme Court held that it had the right to hear cases of individual citizens against states, in particular a state in which they do not reside. The states found that they did not particularly like this situation, and thus they passed the 11th amendment, which essentially gives the several states sovreign immunity from being made a party to a suit.
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go to 50states.com.  They all kinds of facts and trivia on each state.
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1972.  The 26th Amendment was passed in 1971.
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Kansas is a Midwestern state in the United States. The name is derived from the Siouan word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind." Located in the heartland of the country, Kansas is home to the geographical center of the contiguous United States. The state was first settled by Americans in the 1850s by abolitionists from Massachusetts, who attempted to stop the spread of slavery from neighboring Missouri. Kansas, which was a free state, was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces collided. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas exploded as wave after wave of immigrants turned the desolate prairie into productive farmland. Today Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, leading the country in wheat production.
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Only one: the Fourteenth Amendment.\n\n"No state shall .... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."\n\nThere are some other amendments which expanded sufferage, but none of them mention equality (even though the equal right to vote is the obvious point of those other amendments).
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Probably Oregon. Oregon is the only state in which people are not required to perform the fanatical ritual of chronic suffering when death is the only way to end that suffering.
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try this:\n\nhttp://public.findlaw.com/library/state-laws.html
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Delaware was the first state
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laws vary from each state on this matter?
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The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, the first law meant to discriminate specifically against Jews is passed by the National Socialist regime in Germany. \n\nProhibition was repealed for beer of 3.2% alcohol by weight or 4% by volume, eight months before the full repeal of Prohibition on December 5, 1933.