Almost 40 percent of all federal criminal statutes passed after the civil war were enacted between 1970-1998. After the Civil War, Congress extensively enlarged the scope of federal criminal jurisdiction.
EXPLANATION:
For the first time, Congress attempted to extend federal criminal law to various subjects obviously within the state’s general police powers scope. Even though the Supreme Court's ruling made the civil rights law largely ineffective, the Court sustained most of the new federal law, which was intended to supplement existing state criminal law.
Civil rights legislation. The most direct consequence of the Civil War was the authorization of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, respectively, abolished slavery and prohibited states from denying citizens the right to vote, or the privileges and protections of federal nationality; delivered the process; and delivered equal legal protection.
Regulation of the mails and commerce. The most important post-Civil War growth was the imposition of the first federal criminal penalties for the abuse of facilities under federal control in a way that caused injury to individuals, not to the government itself. The first crucial step in this direction is the application of criminal penalties for the abuse of mails—facilities ran by the government - to carry out fraudulent systems or to allocate lottery circular letters and indecent publications.
The next step was the application of penalties for violations involving the use of interstate facilities, like rail lines, which are subject to the regulations of the federal under commerce clauses.
Prohibition. The attempt to ban the sale and distribution of liquor ended in 1919 with the authorization of the Eighteenth Amendment, which gave "concurrent" implementation power to the state and the federal government. The decisive constitutional grant from concurrent jurisdiction was without standard. In practice, the burden of enforcement was largely borne by the federal government and resulted in a phenomenal upsurge in the number of federal prosecutions.
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KEYWORDS : Federal Criminal Statutes, Post-Civil War
Subject : History
Class : 10-12
Sub-Chapter : Federal Jurisdiction
