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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Six months after passage of the Mendocino ordinance, state legislatures began introducing seed preemption bills prohibiting local communities from banning or regulating genetically engineered crops. In a March 2004 NBC News interview, former National Security Council member Roger Cressey recalled: "People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president's policy of preemption against terrorists. The so-called CAN SPAM act provides another shining example of how the GOP-controlled Congress stepped in and destroyed through preemption any consumer remedies under state law, while at the same time making the federal law completely ineffective. |
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