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preemptionU.S. policy that allowed the first settlers, or squatters, on public land to buy the land they had improved. Since improved land, coveted by speculators, was often priced too high for squatters to buy at auction, temporary preemptive laws allowed them to acquire it without bidding. The Pre-Emption Act (1841) gave squatters the right to buy 160 acres at $1.25 per acre before the land was auctioned. The Homestead Act (1862) made preemption an accepted part of U.S. land policy. See also Homestead Movement. |
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The suit was aimed at protecting children's educational programming from pre-emption for sports broadcasts. The invasion of Iraq was not pre-emption but, at best, prevention of the acquisition of a capability which, at some later date, might be threatening to our security. The horrendous attacks in London are graphic proof that the war on terror cannot be won militarily by troops on the ground or the doctrine of pre-emption as adopted by the Bush administration. |
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