Authority
The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 (Pub.L. 83-517, 68 Stat. 497, enacted July 22, 1954) is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916. It replaced the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1936 (Pub.L. 74-749, 49 Stat. 1807, enacted June 22, 1936) and the earlier temporary provisions (Pub.L. 64-389, 39 Stat. 1132, enacted March 3, 1917).
It was subsequently amended by Pub.L. 85-851 (Pub.L. 85-851, 72 Stat. 1094, enacted August 28, 1958) which prohibited political or religious tests but required a loyalty oath as qualification to any office or public trust, by the Virgin Islands Elective Governor Act (Pub.L. 90-496, 82 Stat. 837, enacted August 23, 1968) which made the Governor an elected office, by Pub.L. 98-213 (Pub.L. 98-213, 97 Stat. 1459, enacted December 8, 1983), and by Pub.L. 98-454 (Pub.L. 98-454, 98 Stat. 1732, enacted October 5, 1984), which removed the reight to indictment for certain crimes and removed the jurisdiction of the admiralty courts.
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Famous quotes containing the word authority:
“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.... Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our “white mythology.” Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.”
—Ihab Hassan (b. 1925)
“I believe I’m a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life—ever.”
—Bill Clinton (b. 1946)