When an Act is passed by the U.S. can it be revised, modified or repealed even after several years?
If so, has it happened before? Which ones were changed? The reason I'm asking is because I'm doing research on the "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996"
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Yes it can. Bankruptcy laws have been amended or changed within the last few years. Slavery laws, prohibition, etc.
Sure, anything can be repealed later on. The Prohibition Act of 1920 banning alcohol was actually an Amendment to the Constitution and it was repealed.
Any piece of legislation can be changed by future Congresses. Just take the slavery issue for years Congress passed laws that treated Blacks as property and set up slave states and free states. In the last 40 years we have seen civil rights legislation trying to ensure Blacks are not discriminated and also trying to level the playing field on education and employment for Blacks. Countless other pieces of legislation on many issues has been revised by Congresses. Even the immigration issue has seen many changes - legislation came up basically treating southern European and eastern European immigrants as un-worthy of immigration status. There were even provisions for literacy tests for immigrations.
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