Acts that settled federal disputes or the relation of the state to religion and rights: the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act over slavery in American territories, the German Enabling Act of 1933, the French separation of churches and state of 1905, Mexico's amparo law and Turkey's Surname Law. A statute belongs here when its cited article describes an act on federal balance, a constitutional crisis or state and religion outside the British world. It excludes the British and Commonwealth acts.
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1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State (Wikipedia)
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Enacted during the Third Republic, it established state secularism in France.
Enabling Act of 1933 (Wikipedia)
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'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') was a law that gave the German Cabinet-most importantly, the chancellor, Adolf Hitler-the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg.
Kansas-Nebraska Act (Wikipedia)
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
Missouri Compromise (Wikipedia)
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The Missouri Compromise (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.
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