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Abolition is the act of formally repeal
Repeal

A repeal is the removal or reversal of a law. This is generally done when a law is no longer effective, or it is shown that a law is having far more negative consequences than were originally envisioned....
ing an existing legal practice, either by making it illegal, or simply no longer allowing it to exist in any form.

Notable things, which have been abolished include:






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Abolition is the act of formally repeal
Repeal

A repeal is the removal or reversal of a law. This is generally done when a law is no longer effective, or it is shown that a law is having far more negative consequences than were originally envisioned....
ing an existing legal practice, either by making it illegal, or simply no longer allowing it to exist in any form.

Notable things, which have been abolished include:
  • Slavery
    Slavery

    Slavery is a form of forced labor where a person is compelled to Labor for another . Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive Remuneration in return for their labor....
    • Abolition of slavery timeline
      Abolition of slavery timeline

      Abolition of slavery occurred as abolition in specific countries, abolition of the trade in slaves and abolition throughout empires. Each of these steps was usually the result of a separate law or action....
    • Abolitionism
      Abolitionism

      File:BLAKE10.JPGAbolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups con...
    • International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
      International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

      International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, August 23 of each year, the day designated by UNESCO to memorialize the transatlantic slave trade....
    • Slavery Abolition Act 1833
  • Government
    Government

    Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
    • Abolished monarchy
      Abolished monarchy

      Throughout history monarchy have been abolished either through legislative reforms, coup d'etat, or wars.One example is the overthrow in 1649 of the British monarchy by the Parliament of England, led by Oliver Cromwell....
      • Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy
        Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy

        During the French Revolution, the proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy was a proclamation by the National Convention of France announcing that it had abolished the French monarchy on 21 September 1792....
    • Soviet Union
      Soviet Union

      The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  • Prohibition
    Prohibition

    Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, refers to a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol....
    • Alcohol
      Alcohol

      In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl Functional group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group....


Issues, which are topics of debate over their possible abolition include:
  • Abortion
    Abortion

    An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death....
  • Anarchism and Nationalism
  • Capital punishment
    Capital punishment

    Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a person by procedural law for Punishment#Retribution and Punishment#Incapacitation....
    • UN moratorium on the death penalty
      UN moratorium on the death penalty

      The UN Moratorium on the Death Penalty was an Italian proposal supported by several countries and NGOs before the General Assembly of the United Nations....
  • Deportation
    Deportation

    Deportation generally means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The expulsion of natives is also called banishment, exile, or penal transportation....
  • Discrimination
    Discrimination

    Discrimination toward or against a person or group is the treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit. It is usually associated with prejudice....
    • Ageism
      Ageism

      Ageism refers to the stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups because of their age. It is a set of beliefs, attitudes, norms, and values used to justify age based prejudice and discrimination....
      • Age of consent
        Age of consent

        While the phrase age of consent typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used in relation to human sexual behavior, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent of consenting to sexual acts....
    • Religious intolerance
      Religious intolerance

      Religious intolerance is either intolerance motivated by one's own Religion beliefs or intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices....
    • Sexism
      Sexism

      Sexism, a term coined in the late 20th century, refers to the belief or attitude that one gender or sex is inferior to or less valuable than the other....
      • Same-sex marriage
        Same-sex marriage

        Same-sex marriage and gay marriage are terms for a Law or socially recognized marriage between two people of the same sex. While state-sanctioned same-sex marriage is a relatively new phenomenon in the modern world, same-sex unions have been documented throughout human history....
        • Status of same-sex marriage
          Status of same-sex marriage

          The current status of same-sex marriage changes nearly on a daily basis as legislation and legal action takes place around the world. Summarized in this article are the current trends and consensus of religions and political authorities throughout the world....
    • Speciesism
      Speciesism

      Speciesism involves assigning different values or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership. The term was coined by British psychologist Richard D....
  • Firearm
    Firearm

    A firearm is a tool that projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. The firing is achieved by the gases produced through rapid, confined combustion of a propellant....
    s ownership
    • Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
      Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

      The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects a right to keep and bear arms....
  • Incarceration
    Incarceration

    Incarceration is the detention of a person in jail or prison. People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime....
    • Prison abolition movement
      Prison abolition movement

      The prison abolition movement seeks to abolish prison and the prison system which advocates of the movement claim are inhumane. Prison abolitionists present a broad critique of the modern Western criminal justice system, alleged to be both racist and classist as well as ineffectual at reforming criminals, decreasing crime, or reconciling th...
  • Suffering
    Suffering

    Suffering, or pain, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. Suffering may be qualified as physical, or mental....
    • Abolitionism (animal rights)
      Abolitionism (animal rights)

      Abolitionism within the animal rights movement is the idea that the legal ownership of animals must be abolished before animal suffering can be substantially reduced....
    • Abolitionism (bioethics)
      Abolitionism (bioethics)

      Abolitionism is a bioethical school and movement which proposes the use of biotechnology to maximize happiness and minimize suffering while working towards the abolition of involuntary suffering....
  • Abolition of electoral districts
    Constituency

    A constituency is any cohesive body of people bound by shared identity, goals, or loyalty. Constituency can be used to describe a business's customer base and shareholders, or a charity's donors or those it serves....
     during redistricting
    Redistricting

    Redistricting, a form of Redistribution , is the process of changing of political borders in the United States. This often means changing electoral district and constituency boundaries, usually in response to periodic census results....


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