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Women's Rights According to Edmund Burke and Mary Wollenstonecraft

were discounted. It seemed to be an alien concept to the philosophical thinkers of the eighteenth century that the freedoms that ...

People's Republic of China and 'Survival Rights'

'Survival Rights' and what they mean in terms of human rights in the People's Republic of China are discussed in a report consisti...

Social Responsibility, Terminally Ill Citizens, and Euthanasia

In five pages euthanasia is explored in terms of history, types, and issues of economics, living wills, and human rights....

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

Enlightenment Theories and Rights for Women

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

International Participation, the United Nations, and Human Rights

In eight pages this research paper examines how the U.N. approaches human rights issues in a discussion of organizations such as t...

Contemporary Law v. Pre 1700 Law

of settling a dispute. In fact, during King Henry IIs reign (1133-1189), "no other legal means was recognized for the settlement ...

Natural Law and Natural Rights

In six pages this essay discusses natural law and natural rights as considered by James Hutson in 'The Bill of Rights and the Amer...

'The Case for H.R. 1534: Equal Access to the Courts' Critiqued

In five pages the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997 is examined in terms of implications....

Workplace and Gay Rights Issues

(Religious Intolerance, 2004). Pressure from lobbyists has prompted this decision but it appears to be a growing trend in the mar...

Global Human Rights Problems and Violations

partly because violations of human rights were protected by the doctrine of state sovereignty and partly because the Cold War made...

California Family Code and Property

kicked in. In this way, the value would be calculated for the 10 years prior to the marriage during which the husband owned the pr...

Individual Rights v. States Rights

This research paper investigates literature that examines the inherent tension between the rights of individuals and states rights...

The Right to Private Property in the Constitution

state ownership. In Sparta it was the state that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 200...

21st Century Report on North Korea's Concentration Camps

of slave labor, beatings, and of the executions they have personally witnessed that scream to be heard by the world. They are spe...

China and the Possibility of Revolution

societal dictates under which Chinese women had lived for centuries. This period was characterized by a complex interaction betwe...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Jones & Moody/Known World

himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless show...

Langston Hughes & Raymond Carver

sore" (line 4)? The structure of the poem asks a series of questions that, in themselves, suggest the answers, which are all found...

Hopkins V. Price Waterhouse

absolve the firm of any culpability served to secure Hopkins victory. The United States Supreme Court heard the appeal and subseq...

M.L. King/Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

Religious Profiling Or Reasonable Outreach?

or social sect are potential perpetrators merely by association. This reflects the harm principle of this situation, inasmuch as ...

Children's Rights

be awarded the children they gave up for adoption. This meant that judges would award bio parents the children even though the chi...

Right to Refuse Treatment

so (Forsloff). However, the state considers itself to have a vested interest in protected those who cannot protect themselves, suc...

Human Rights Violation: Gender

gender equality has come to reflect equity of human rights, as well. This Western ideology, however, has not infiltrated those gl...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Unsucessful Filibuster that was Launched in an Attempt to Prevent its Passage

our Republic, forbids it. Morality forbids it. And the law I will sign tonight forbids it (Friedman). The 13th, 14th and 15th Am...