The University of No Football; Home of the Osprey; Also known as The University of North Florida. It is a relatively good school in Jacksonville, Florida that has NO FOOTBALL TEAM.
As one Supreme Court justice would write in 1965, vagrancy-related laws made it legal to stand on a street corner âonly at the whim of any police officer.â. Second, vagrancy laws made it a crime to be a certain type of personâanyone who fit the description of one of those colorful Elizabethan characters. Where most American laws required people to do something criminal before they could be arrested, vagrancy laws emphatically did not.
Reaction from Northern states was swift. In 1850, the same year as the compromise, Vermont was the first to pass a revised personal liberty law. Rhode Island and Connecticut followed suit in 1854. Three more states passed new personal liberty laws in 1855, and an additional two states joined them in 1858. With this clear pattern of cause-and-effect established throughout the first half of the 19th century between free and slave states, the stage was set for a monumental conflict.