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President Abraham Lincoln's Role in the US Period of Reconstruction

Eric Froner Consider Reconstruction a Failure? The reasons for the failure of reconstruction are itemized in the article....

Backlash from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

Feminism in the Nineteen-Thirties

discussed, or not discussed during the time period, abortions were available to those who knew where to look. But, it was a danger...

American Political Changes

no better illustrated than through a discussion of the particulars of our democracy itself, the particulars of who is allowed the ...

Women's Rights Movement and Contributions of the Antislavery Movement

In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...

Second Trimester of Pregnancy and Abortion Rights

some point, the fetus has a face, but perhaps cannot survive on its own. The question becomes whether or not this fetus is a human...

Civil Rights and the Government of the United States

protests, a look at what the government has done from the early 1930s through the late 1960s is in order. What did the government ...

The Fourth Amendment and Airport Security

at the store. A reasonable belief that something is awry can requisite a search. Also, in some cases, searches are allowed on a ro...

Women's Rights in On Liberty and The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

Is Govermental Power Too Great or Insufficient?

entities take liberties and make rules that do not abide by the clear-cut convictions of a democratic system of administration. ...

Affirmative Action in Academic Institutions in California

academic affirmative actions programs in allowing affirmative action to be part of the enrollment process. While there is no ques...

Bill of Rights and Individualism

collapse into condemnation happens because the vocabulary of individualism sounds harsh to ears becoming accustomed to the competi...

Social Responsibility and Individual Rights

apartments, eat out at restaurants, go to sleep any time they choose, and so forth. In other words, their rights as individuals w...

Harry T. Moore and His Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

African Americans and the Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

that because of the civil rights movement, no black woman will ever again be forced to sit in the back of the bus....

Jean Jacques Rousseau on Corrupt Society Development

and nature, man feeds his hunger and satisfies his need without the need to be vicious in the way seen today. The amorality is on...

Arguing for an Adopted Child's Right to Know Biological Parentage

is to address these two aspects of biological identity as they relate to the human right to know their biological origin. S...

Pain Management Choices and Patients Rights

quite succinctly. The Dax Cowart case, that has become rather well known, involves a seriously injured man who was left ...

Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Protective Treaties

US and Native American tribes was signed in 1778 (Capps, 1973). This treaty was with the Delawares, whose tribal land once extende...

Michael K. Honey's Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights Organizing Memphis Workers

from different classes and races integrating with the mainstream. These barriers extended into practically every aspect of Memphi...

Protected Wildlife Areas, Oil Exploration, and Ethics

of the balance to be considered to be between "pleasures" and "pains" while John Stuart Mill changed the balance to one between "h...

Case Study Analysis of Freedom of Speech

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

New York State's Surviving Spouse's Right of Election

of changes were implemented and these are worth exploring. Before progressing deeper into the intricacies of New York Estate Law,...

Case Study on Internet Marketing

it is used. II. Background to Benetton. If Benetton is considering using the Internet the company itself needs to be consid...

Women's Rights, Working Hours, and the 1908 Case of Muller v. Oregon

law passed in 1905 that prevented the women working for more than ten hours a day. Muller argued that this was unconstitutional, a...

Federalism and Rights of Native Americans

Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...

Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights

the lowest available airfare and instead fill the more expensive seats first, then the cheapest fares are released. This obviously...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Civil Rights Movement

members in the mainstream population helped them in their efforts. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was actually the third such Act to...

Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau and its Contemporary Relevance

Middle East. Ever since the 9-11 attacks on the United States, much has been made about totalitarian dictatorships, and the hatred...