A Coercion Act was an Act of Parliament that gave a legal basis for increased state powers to suppress popular discontent and disorder. The label was applied, especially in Ireland, to acts passed from the 18th to the early 20th century by the Irish, British, and Northern Irish parliaments.
A CoercionAct was an Act of Parliament that gave a legal basis for increased state powers to suppress popular discontent and disorder. The label was...
Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party.[need quotation...
state. Charles Stewart Parnell described William Ewart Gladstone's Irish CoercionAct as terrorism in his "no-Rent manifesto" in 1881, during the Irish Land...
Chief Secretary of Ireland. Balfour secured a tough Irish CoercionAct or Perpetual Crimes Act (1887), aimed at the prevention of boycotting, intimidation...
the Act and were imprisoned in October 1881 in Kilmainham Jail, together with other prominent members of the League, under the Irish CoercionAct. While...
the repressive nature of the Pittite regime. Cato Street Conspiracy CoercionAct Earl of Eldon Police state Radicalism (historical) Halévy 1961, pp. 25...
that produce the failed Urabi Revolt. In 1881 he established the Irish CoercionAct, which permitted the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to detain people for...
The USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the Patriot Act) was a landmark Act of the United States Congress, signed into law by President George W. Bush....
common law defence of marital coercion at the date of abolition was contained in section 47 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925: Any presumption of law that...
offensive. They were imprisoned under a proclaimed CoercionAct in Kilmainham Gaol for "sabotaging the Land Act", from where the No Rent Manifesto, which Parnell...
were imprisoned in October 1881 under the Irish CoercionAct in Kilmainham Jail for "sabotaging the Land Act", from where the No Rent Manifesto was issued...
guaranteed by state and federal law in the United States) through any act or acts of coercion, violence, threats of violence, or intimidation, including victims...
the ratification of the Enabling Act. In order to guarantee its passage, the Nazis implemented a strategy of coercion, bribery, and manipulation. Hitler...
anti-retaliation or coercion provision. The Technical Assistance Manual for the ADA explains this provision: III-3.6000 Retaliation or coercion. Individuals...
were imprisoned in October 1881 under the Irish CoercionAct in Kilmainham Jail for "sabotaging the Land Act", from where the No-Rent Manifesto was issued...
racket", neither of which generally or necessarily involve extortion, coercion, fraud, or deception with regard to the intended clientele. Because of...
certain way, which is the crime of coercion (not proscribed by the Hobbs Act), not extortion (proscribed by the Hobbs Act). United States v. Enmons United...
reforms, including the three Fs. William Edward Forster argued that a CoercionAct—which would punish those who participated in events like those at Lough...
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