What is the goldwater-nichols act?
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The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 (PL 99-433) reworked the command structure of the United States military, introducing the most sweeping changes to the United States Department of Defense since it was established in the National Security Act of 1947.\n\nNamed after Senator Barry Goldwater and Representative Bill Nichols, the bill passed the House of Representatives, 383-27, and the Senate, 95-0. It was signed into law by President Reagan on October 1, 1986.\n\nAmong other changes, Goldwater-Nichols streamlined the military chain of command, which now runs from the President through the Secretary of Defense directly to unified combat commanders, bypassing the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were assigned an advisory role.
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The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001' (Public Law 107-56), known as USA PATRIOT Act or simply the 'Patriot Act', is an American act which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. The Act passed in the Senate by a vote of 98 to 1, and in the House by a vote of 357 to 66. Although the bill enjoyed widespread Congressional and Presidential support it is a very controversial federal legislation.\n\nOriginally passed after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Act (full text) was formed in response to the terrorist attacks against the United States, and dramatically expanded the authority of American law enforcement for the stated purpose of fighting terrorism in the United States and abroad. It has also been used to detect and prosecute other alleged potential crimes, such as providing false information on terrorism. Federal courts declared some sections unconstitutional because they interfere with civil liberties. It was renewed on March 2, 2006 with a vote of 89 to 11 in the Senate and on March 7 280 to 138 in the House. The renewal was signed into law by President Bush on March 9, 2006.\nSome of the more controversial provisions of USA PATRIOT act were largely inspired by the RICO act, which restricted due process for individuals involved in organized crime, racketeering, and drug trafficking. The USA PATRIOT act essentially extended the qualifications to those involved in terrorism.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Patriot_Act
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Believe it or not, there's a helpful government site for this!  Check it out at http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
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The Miller Act is a federal law which provides protection via the issuance of bonds for the US Govt. and subcontractors who work on big public works projects. It is a little complicated -- I've provided a link to a decent fuller explanation.
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An act is a law that was passed by a legislature.
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The text reads:\nSection 1.\nThe eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.\n\nSection 2.\nThe transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.\n\nSection 3.\nThis article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.\n\nBut for a commentary on the amendment, which by the way\nwas proposed by the United States Congress on February 20, 1933 and was fully ratified on December 5, 1933. This Amendment is thus far the only case, besides the initial ratification of the original Constitution, in which state conventions, specially selected for the purpose—not state legislatures—ratified the amendment, go to:\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt21_user.html#amdt21_hd3
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A law designing to allow individual states to ignore gay marriages allowed by another state.  Normally, the Constitution requires that one state recognize the legality of the laws of another state, so that if you are married in Texas you are married in Alabama, etc.  The "protection of marriage" act siad that if, e.g., Massachusetts allows gay marriages, it is ok for Georgis to say the marriage is not valid in Georgia.\n\nIt remains to be seen if the Act is Constitutional.
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Nice question:\nCcheck this out:\n\nThe city of Monza, Italy, banned the keeping of goldfish in bowls because the containers do not meet the needs of the animals and because, as one sponsor of the law pointed out, bowls give fish “a distorted view of reality
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$100,000 bills don't exist anymore and were only ever issued as gold certificates, used to transfer money between banks. They were all purchased by the government by order of FDR in 1933 and subsequently used for intragovernmental transactions. It had Woodrow Wilson on the front and $100,000 in numbers and words on the back. See the page below for pictures.
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The Mining Act of 1872 is a United States federal law which authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for hard rock minerals such as gold and silver in publicly owned lands without any compensation provided to taxpayers. No royalties are collected by the Federal Government. It codifies the system of acquiring mining claims on public land that was formed in California and Nevada in the late 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s, during periods such as the California gold rush.\n\nThe act was originally meant to open the west to settlement and development.\n\nIt also allows the mining companies to purchase lands rich with minerals at the 1872 price of $5 an acre. Environmental protection is not addressed by this law.\n\nHowever, the oil industry, coal industry and natural gas industry must still pay royalties.
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Legislation enacted by the federal and various state governments to regulate trade and commerce by preventing unlawful restraints, price-fixing, and monopolies, to promote competition, and to encourage the production of quality goods and services at the lowest prices, with the primary goal of safeguarding public welfare by ensuring that consumer demands will be met by the manufacture and sale of goods at reasonable prices.\n\nNo Competition/Antitrust law seeks to make businesses compete fairly. It has had a serious effect on business practices and the organization of U.S. industry. Premised on the belief that free trade benefits the economy, businesses, and consumers alike, the law forbids several types of restraint of trade and monopolization. These fall into four main areas: agreements between competitors, contractual arrangements between sellers and buyers, the pursuit or maintenance of monopoly power, and mergers.
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Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. \nSection 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. \nSection 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. \n\nThe ramifications of the 18th Amendment, which will live on to be remembered as "Prohibition", have reached into today. The Amendment eternally changed the notion that localized crime could not evolve into a full-fledged mafia syndicate; while also removing the facade of a utopian society without alcohol (or any other drug, for that matter) in its veins, because it is just one of the many luxuries that make up the plasma in the American bloodstream. Prohibition changed the lives and roles of moonshiners and rum-runners, transforming them, along their product, into the lifeblood of American speakeasies and mob dons, forever revolutionizing the American dream and image.
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You are in a very good part of the country for prospecting. There are many known gold-bearing areas in the region. Visit www.goldprospectors.org. They will have all the info you need. The GPAA is the nation's largest prospecting organization. Membership is very reasonable and will give you free access to claims from coast to coast and the members are more than willing to help out the "newbies".
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The 16th Amendment, ratified on 3 Feb 1913.\n\nThe Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 was rejected as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court because it was a direct tax on income over 3000.00 per year.\n\nI remember from school that the tax was created to fund WWI\nand never relinquished, but we were not in war in 1913, so I assume that it was a way for congress to raise money for the federal government to operate.
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Sort of... this is partially true.  As one of the largest water sources in the desert southwest, the Colorado River is one of the most fought-over rivers in the world.  After much legal fighting and arguement, the majority of the water in the lower part of the river was divided up between Arizona, Nevada, Utah or California with the Colorado River Compact of 1922.  \n\nThe agreement was amended in 1944 to ensure that Mexico would receive a minimum of about 1.4 million acre feet (about a 10th of the flow of the lower river).  However, by the time it gets to the border, it has been so drained (and picked up so much mineral run-off from farmland) that the saline and mineral levels are far too high to use even for irrigation.  As a result, the US has built a de-salinazation plant that processes all of the water at the border and sends it on to Mexico via canals.  By that point, it is really no longer a river in any real sense of the word and (except during floods) none of the water ever actually makes it to the Gulf of California anymore.
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actually it was in the media. During the Clinton administration. A proposal was made to connect all state level enforcement to centralized federal level but I do not think it was ever completed
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They did do a lot of good at the time. Both acts were enacted in 1933 to help the country out of the Great Depression. The acts took the USA off the gold standard, enacted a series of control of banks, set up federal deposit insurance [I actually made a claim on that in the 1980s and got my deposits back], and allowed the government to create money based on the strength of the national economy rather than having to put up collateral.\n\nThe Glass-Steagel Acts were repealed in 1999.