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.
The Navigation Acts were laws that were meant to enrich England by regulating the trade of its colonies. The English government did not want the colonies to trade directly with other countries because that... The main colonial response to the Navigation Acts was smuggling. They did not believe that the acts were just and so they felt justified in breaking them. They believed that smuggling was not really a crime because the laws were unjust. The Navigation Acts were laws that were meant to enrich England by regulating the trade of its colonies. The English government did not want the colonies to trade directly with other countries because that would only help the colonies.