The Dream Act

Examples of The Dream Act in the following topics:

• Civil Rights of Immigrants

  • For example, in the second half of the 1800s, the Irish population in the U.S. exploded, and anti-Irish sentiment resulted in a plethora of discriminatory practices in housing, employment, and governance.
  • It was not until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that significant numbers of immigrants were once again allowed to enter the U.S.
  • The Immigration and Nationality Act reversed laws that limited the number of immigrants who could enter from any given country, and instead put in place policies that encouraged the immigration of skilled workers and family members of U.S. citizens.
  • The Dream Act is an example of recently proposed legislation that would allow children born to parents who are illegally in the U.S. to attend public universities and become citizens .Although the Dream Act has not passed as federal legislation, a California version was passed in 2011.
  • The California DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act is a package of California state laws that allow children who were brought into the US under the age of 16 without proper visas/immigration documentation who have attended school on a regular basis and otherwise meet in-state tuition and GPA requirements to apply for student financial aid benefits.

• British Taxes and Colonial Grievances

  • The Sugar Act of 1764 reduced the taxes imposed by the Molasses Act, but at the same time strengthened the collection of the tax.
  • Following the Quartering Act, Parliament passed one of the most infamous pieces of legislation: the Stamp Act.
  • The Stamp Act Congress met in October 1765, petitioning the King and Parliament to repeal the act before it went into effect at the end of the month.
  • The act faced vehement opposition throughout the colonies.
  • Parliament repealed the Stamp Act but passed the Declaratory Act in its wake.

• The Civil Rights Acts

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
  • The Civil Rights Act was followed by the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Johnson in 1965.
  • The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B.
  • Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
  • Compare and contrast the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act

• The PATRIOT and Freedom Acts

  • The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act), also commonly known as the Patriot Act, is an Act of the U.S.
  • The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act's expanded law enforcement powers can be applied.
  • These included the Protecting the Rights of Individuals Act, the Benjamin Franklin True Patriot Act, and the Security and Freedom Ensured Act (SAFE), none of which passed.
  • The USA FREEDOM Act ("Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act"), more commonly known as the Freedom Act, is a U.S. law that was enacted on June 2, 2015, the day after the PATRIOT Act expired.
  • Identify the key provisions of the Patriot Act and the controversies that followed from it

• Results of the 1946 Act

  • The Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 was a statute enacted by the United States Congress to reduce the influence of lobbyists.
  • The act defined lobbying as an activity, and thus created the legal conditions for the behavior to be regulated by the government.
  • The provisions of the act define lobbying in the following manner:
  • The Court upheld the act's constitutionality, but it also narrowed the scope and application of the act.
  • Summarize the contents of the 1946 Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act and reactions to it

• Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans, particularly in the South.
  • The Civil Rights Movement generally lasted from 1955 to 1968 and was particularly focused in the American South.
  • After the Brown v.
  • The student sit-ins protesting segregated lunch counters (1960); the Freedom Rides (1961) in which activists attempted to integrate bus terminals, restrooms, and water fountains; voter registration drives; and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), in which civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
  • The March on Washington, a key event in the U.S.

• Bureaucratic Reform

  • The five important civil service reforms were the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, the Pendleton Act of 1883, the Hatch Acts (1939 and 1940), and the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) of 1978.
  • The Civil Service Reform Act (the Pendleton Act) is an 1883 federal law that established the United States Civil Service Commission.
  • Arthur administration, the Pendleton Act served as a response to President James Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker.
  • Second, the Pendleton Act required entrance exams for aspiring bureaucrats.
  • Describe the key moments in the history of bureaucratic reform, including the Tenure of Office Acts, the Pendleton Act, the Hatch Acts, and the Civil Service Reform Acts.

• Protecting Whistleblowers

  • The Lloyd-La Follette Act of 1912 guaranteed the right of federal employees to furnish information to Congress.
  • The first US environmental law to include employee protection was the Clean Water Act of 1972.
  • Similar protections were included in subsequent federal environmental laws including the Safe Drinking water Act (1974), Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, and the Clean Air Act (1990) .
  • Federal employees could benefit from the Whistleblower Protection Act as well as the No-Fear Act, which made individual agencies directly responsible for the economic sanctions of unlawful retaliation.
  • The signing of the Clean Air Act, the first U.S. environmental law offering employee protection as a result of whistleblower action.

• The Act of Organizing: Constitutive Decisions

  • Variation three, $O \rightarrow X+Y$ , refers to the act of organizing things in a certain way.
  • The act of organizing is thus a super wholesale approach to decision and action.
  • In this sense, also, the act of organizing can be regarded as a wholesale or indirect approach to rule-making and, thus, a super wholesale or doubly indirect approach to deciding how to act in specific cases.
  • The American Constitutional Convention of 1787 was one of history's most dramatic examples of acting to organize.
  • Likewise, the decisions by Lenin and his associates regarding the pre-revolutionary organization of the Communist Party continued to have important consequences as the Soviet Union approached the end of the twentieth century, more than 70 years later.

• Sunset Laws

  • The authors ensured the act would terminate at the end of Adams's term (the date the law would cease) so that Democratic Republicans against the Federalist Party could not use it.
  • The Congressional Budget Act governs the role of Congress in the budget process.
  • The Byrd rule was adopted in 1985 and amended in 1990 to modify the Budget Act and is contained in section 313.
  • Therefore, a sunset provision in the Act reinstated the tax to its original levels on January 1, 2011 in order to comply with the Byrd Rule.
  • John Adams and his Federalist Party used a sunset provision in the Sedition Act of 1798 to ensure that the Sedition Act would cease once Adams was out of office.