Let's take a closer look at an example. A price ceiling is the maximum price that can be charged. If the price is set below the equilibrium price, the price ceiling is said to be effective (or binding).
Criminal vagrancy laws were originally aimed at those wanderers and. beggars physically capable of working.24 However, in 1744 vagrancy. crimes were divided into three classes: idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues.
Coercive Acts The Coercive Acts, called the âIntolerable Actsâ by the colonists, were a series of laws passed by the British on the Colonists as a result of the Boston Tea Party. [ The acts infuriated the colonists who felt that they were being robbed of their civil liberties.