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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Mann Act of 1910"”.
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Indecent Traffic: Shifting Understandings of the U.S. Commerce Clause
This paper focuses on the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution and explores how its scope has expanded throughout history. This paper, organized chronologically, evaluates the alterations to the scope of the Commerce Clause through the American Industrial Revolution, anti-vice and purity …
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Following in the Footsteps of Prior Law: the Expanding Application of the USA Patriot Act
<p>Laws are often enacted in response to a moral panic. Examples of this are found in the Mann Act of 1910, passed to deal with forced prostitution, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970, which addressed the threat of organized crime. In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act …