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Essays 1711 - 1740

Federalist No. Fifty One by James Madison

Madison is whether utilitarianism has a place in the framework of Americas Constitution and if it does, to what extent is this ass...

A Woman's Right to Have an Abortion

she actually never had an abortion, and years later wishes her name were not on the court decision and wishes that abortion were n...

U.S. in the Terrorism Age

nations whose autocratic ways are threatened by such a possibility. Having started out as diplomatic in nature, the terrorists ha...

Westphalian Sovereignty by David Held

to do as they like without any interference from other nations. And it is precisely this thinking, Held argues, that has to stop b...

The Right to Die as a Legal Issue

between the withdrawal of life-saving treatments and doctor-assisted suicide (Feinberg, 1998). In this case, three terminally ill ...

Workers Rights and Personal Privacy

or bus drivers, the lives of others are at stake. How does one weigh the privacy rights of employees regarding their behavior and ...

Gay Married Couples, Benefits, and Rights

States remains steadfastly conservative and downright discriminatory regarding this issue. It violates the Fourteenth Amendment o...

The Right to Silence and Australian Law

In conjunction, it is also necessary to understand the specific context of the claims of the impact of silence on the probative va...

'Rights and Wrongs' of Ethics

community, a society, wherein they feel they belong and they are safe. If they have doubts about what is right and wrong it is lik...

PA Act 33 and Juvenile Justice

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Individual Rights

make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer" (Rousseau, 1762). The philosophers answer is in fact the social contract....

America's Living Wills

terminal condition she might face. That is the precisely the purpose of a living will - to speak for the person who has been medi...

Transgendered Community and Civil Rights

themselves. There is a definitive move in fact, to abolish the term from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorde...

Struggles for Equality in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

being Thomas Jefferson) gathered to write their objections down on paper. Among the objections were what were termed "self eviden...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment and the Constitution

is deemed illegal by the court--even if it has to do with a technicality--the case is not supported. There is in...

Dissemination of Personal Information, Articles Eight and Ten of the Human Rights Act, the Media, and Privacy

the newspapers are often looked down on. Not because they have broken a law but due tot he way in which they are breaking what is ...

UK New Regulations for Schools

most basic of judicial review doctrines, that of ulta vires. This means beyond (ultra) power (vires). This is an idea very basic t...

U.S. and Gay Rights

in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...

Freedom of Speech and Inherent Rights

of free speech became an intensely debated issue when Hare Krishnas were told they could no longer solicit at Los Angeles Internat...

Overview of the Controversy Involving the Pharmacist Conscience Clause

substance that is equated with abortion and that is very controversial. Some pharmacists refuse to fill those prescriptions as wel...

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number from a Political Perspective

belly dancer with no political experience, as Vice President (Stevenson, 1998). It quickly became obvious that the aging and aili...

Iraq and Violations of Human Rights

had fewer political difficulties with her other neighbors. The country is mostly agricultural, with about half the available land ...

Process Involved in Terminating the Rights of Parents

parents. The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 104-89) (ASFA) was passed because of children like Cornilous Pixley, an...

Romantic Era Human Rights and Religious Sentiments Represented by Mary Wollstonecraft

thousand years, which was directly related to the need for a shared responsibility for survival. This began to change, however, w...

Three Logical Fallacies' Examination

Quoque is a "classic Red Herring, since whether the accuser is guilty of the same ... wrong is irrelevant to the truth of the orig...

U.S. and Violations of Human Rights

did this occur? The men were arrested for misdemeanors, one of which was a charge for drinking in public (Weill-Greenberg, 2005). ...

Special Interest Lobbying Groups and Guns

were sufficient to do so is not surprising nor it is unethical. Special interest groups fund organizations that promote their goa...

Boycotting Wal Mart the American Way

described as "the darling of Wall Street" and was declared "most admired company" in 2003 by the influential financial publication...

Overview of Fetal Rights

is a fully functioning adult human being must of necessity make the decision here, and if she decides that she cannot stand the th...