Under the new law, states can enforce their own state consumer laws against nationally chartered banks — even when those laws are stronger than any parallel federal law.
Later the colony was named for Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, who supported Gorton's quest to gain protection of a royal charter against the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Last month Ukip MEP Gerard Batten caused controversy when he renewed calls for Muslims to sign a charter against violence in the wake of terror attacks in Paris.
Last year a charter against ageism and sexism in the media was produced by Sheffield University's NDA Programme in conjunction with media outfits.
A federal judge in Mobile, Ala., allowed a lawsuit filed by Billy's Seafood Inc. to go forward; another federal judge in New Orleans froze litigation brought by Cajun Offshore Charters against the oil company.
One of the groups involved in drawing up the charter, the British Muslim Forum, posted a statement on its Web site on Thursday defending the proposed charter against critics who say the document sells out Muslim principles and independence.
The Freedom party and People's party are the only government parties in the EU not to have signed up to the EU's charter against racism because their policies contravene some of the clauses.
On Monday, I resigned my volunteer position as chairman of the national review board of lay Catholics charged with enforcing the zero-tolerance charter against child sexual abuse adopted last year by America's Roman Catholic Bishops.
Earlier in February, feminist and human-rights activists from all over the world met in Paris to sign the charter against surrogacy, and the European Parliament has also called on states to ban it.
A world in which the US stops dodging its international responsibilities, signs up to such global initiatives as the World Court, and helps build a stronger UN to enforce such laws as its charter against genocide, is a very different matter.
Human rights groups are pressing the Organization of American States to hold meetings that would invoke a democratic charter against Venezuela and suspend the country from the body for its anti-democratic behavior.
