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Biography of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

other first ladies of this or any other time. The concept of first lady leadership is easy to define, but it is not as easy to ex...

Taiwan and the Campaign for the Rights of Women

movement toward womens rights. One of the most important changes with regard to the changing role of women in Taiwan is tha...

Civil Rights and Law Enforcement

loopholes that allowed law enforcement officials to turn the other way during a white-on-black lynching), stories such as Janes we...

Concept of the Divine Right Of Kings

to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...

Companies, Shareholders, and 'Rights' Issues

increase the number of shares due to high share prices on individual shares the a share split may be used. However, if the share i...

Civil Rights Movement and the Involvement of Martin Luther King Jr.

possessed. But, these opportunities and these rights were more difficult for them to obtain than the average white person. They co...

Critique of the United Kingdom's 1999 Rights of 3rd Parties Act

injured party, other than common law resorts such as tort. However this could not enforce a contract or seek remedy for breach of ...

Active Political Actor of the Canadian Supreme Court

consider how the separation of the powers may be seen as developing in Canada as the system under which the Supreme court operates...

Criminal Justice and the Feminist Movement

However, women continue to be restrained by social expectation by being routinely invalidated in popular culture. The road to gen...

First Amendment Interpretation and Theory

the First Amendment and the right to free speech did not come before the Supreme Court until 1919 with the case of Shenck v. the U...

5th and 14th Amendment Applicability of Palko vs. the State of Connecticut

In five pages this paper examines this case in terms of the rights guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitut...

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...

Elite Theory and Understanding Public Policy by Thomas Dye

and without duress, and is competent. At least two physicians must agree that the patient is likely to die within six months. Th...

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 ...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

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...

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...

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....

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...

'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...

Women's Rights and W.E.B. Du Bois

noble nature against the blighting American cast prejudice". (Ferris, 1913, pg. 599). DuBois recognized...

The Origins of Western Law

But surprisingly, even after the Protestant Reformation and native languages began supplanting Latin in speech and literature, "a ...

Case Study on Problems Associated with School Busing

middle school that is just 4.5 miles away from home. A mother takes the position that the change is not right and that her son or ...

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...