Granger Laws

(noun)

A series of laws passed through political agitation by Grange members in Southern states of the United States after the American Civil War.

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Examples of Granger Laws in the following topics:

  • The Agrarian and Populist Movements

    • Such laws were known as Granger Laws, and their general principles, endorsed in 1876 by the Supreme Court of the United States, remain important to the current American legal system.
    • In a declaration of principles in 1874, the Grangers declared that they were not enemies of the railroads, and that they were not advocates of communism or agrarianism.

  • The Granger Movement

    • The Granger movement was founded in 1867 to advance the social and economic interests of rural farmers.
    • In the middle of the 1870s, the Granger movement succeeded in regulating the railroads and grain warehouses.
    • Illinois, which held that the grain warehouses were a, "private utility in the public interest" and therefore could be regulated by public law.
    • Consequently, local Granger movements focused more on community service, although the state and national Granges remain a political force.

  • The Farmer's Alliance

    • The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations: the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, comprised of white farmers of the South; the National Farmers' Alliance, comprised of white and black farmers of the Midwest and High Plains (where the Granger movement had been strong); and the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, comprised of African-American farmers of the South.

  • The Populist Movement

    • The Populist Party arose after the Granger movement and Farmers' Alliances began to decline.

  • Gauss's Law

    • Gauss's law is a law relating the distribution of electric charge to the resulting electric field.
    • Gauss's law can be used to derive Coulomb's law, and vice versa.
    • In fact, Gauss's law does hold for moving charges, and in this respect Gauss's law is more general than Coulomb's law.
    • Gauss's law has a close mathematical similarity with a number of laws in other areas of physics, such as Gauss's law for magnetism and Gauss's law for gravity.
    • In fact, any "inverse-square law" can be formulated in a way similar to Gauss's law: For example, Gauss's law itself is essentially equivalent to the inverse-square Coulomb's law, and Gauss's law for gravity is essentially equivalent to the inverse-square Newton's law of gravity.

  • Correlation is Not Causation

    • Examples include the Granger causality test and convergent cross mapping.

  • The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements

    • By 1880, the Granger movement began to decline and was replaced by the Farmers Alliances.

  • Common Law

    • Law of the United States was mainly derived from the common law system of English law.
    • At both the federal and state levels, the law of the United States was mainly derived from the common law system of English law , which was in force at the time of the Revolutionary War.
    • American judges, like common law judges elsewhere, not only apply the law, they also make the law.
    • As a result, the laws of any given state invariably differ from the laws of its sister states.
    • Instead, it must be regarded as 50 separate systems of tort law, family law, property law, contract law, criminal law, and so on.

  • Civil Law and Criminal Law

    • Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime and civil law deals with disputes between organizations and individuals.
    • Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.
    • Criminal law also sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey these laws.
    • The law relating to civil wrongs and quasi-contract is part of civil law.
    • The objectives of civil law are different from other types of law.

  • Primary Sources of American Law

    • The primary sources of American Law are: constitutional law, statutory law, treaties, administrative regulations, and the common law.
    • These sources are constitutional law, statutory law, treaties, administrative regulations, and the common law.
    • At both the federal and state levels, the law of the United States was originally largely derived from the common law system of English law, which was in force at the time of the Revolutionary War.
    • Thus, most U.S. law consists primarily of state law, which can and does vary greatly from one state to the next.
    • First, all U.S. states except Louisiana have enacted "reception statutes" which generally state that the common law of England (particularly judge-made law) is the law of the state to the extent that it is not repugnant to domestic law or indigenous conditions.