Definition of Department of Justice

1. Noun. The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Department Of Justice

Deo volente
Depardieu
Deparia
Deparia acrostichoides
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department of Defense
Department of Defense Laboratory System
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Energy Intelligence
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice (current term)
Department of Justice Canada
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Depokene
Deposition
Der Fuhrer
Derain
Derby
Derbyshire
Derbyshire spar

Literary usage of Department of Justice

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington by Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1907)
"Department of Justice. The office of Attorney-General was established in 1789 (1 ... In 1870 the Department of Justice was created, having as its head the ..."

2. Making Things Better: Competing in Manufacturing (1993)
"Ibid., reprinted in Report of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law Task Force on the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... being provided for bv the great act that established the Federal courts, but the Department of Justice was not organized into a separate department nor ..."

4. Annual Report of the Attorney-general of the United States by United States Dept. of Justice, United States Attorney-General (1892)
"Department of Justice, Washington, DC, October 3-4, 1892. SIR: I respectfully submit the following report upon the library of the Department of Justice for ..."

5. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"I apprehend that the Committee derived the title of " Department of Justice " from the parallel department in the Federal Government. ..."

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