Talk:Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871

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Although this act became enacted, why was there never any law made against lynching? To this day there is no such law, but why? Who agrees?

I have very probably found a spelling mistake in this text, but I do not want to correct it without having compared a printed copy of the act. Here it is: "... or by imprisonment, with or without hard labor, as the court my [may?] determine, for a period of ..."

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