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Reasonable classification

Reasonable classification, it is now well established that while Article 14 forbids class legislation, it does not forbid reasonable classification for the purposes of legislation. The classification may be founded

Chinese Exclusion Act

Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May

establishment clause

establishment clause often cap E&C : a clause in the U.S. Constitution forbidding Congress from establishing a state religion see also Amendment I to the Constitution in the back matter compare

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Prohibitory

Tending to prohibit forbid or exclude implying prohibition forbidding as a prohibitory law a prohibitory price

ex post facto clause

post facto clause often cap E&P&F&C : the clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution forbidding Congress from passing any ex post facto laws

loiter

for no obvious purpose ;specif : to linger aimlessly for the purpose of committing a crime [a statute forbidding any person from ing on school grounds]

restrictive covenant

covenant acknowledged in a deed or lease that restricts the free use or occupancy of property (as by forbidding commercial use or types of structures) [one who purchases for value and without notice takes the land free

Black browed

Having black eyebrows Hence Gloomy dismal threatening forbidding

Forbiddance

The act of forbidding prohibition command or edict against a thing

Veto

Veto, a prohibition, or the right of forbidding; especially applied to the royal power of refusing assent to a Bill in Parliament passed by the two

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