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Florida and Women in Power

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

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 ...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....

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 ...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

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...

1950s McCarthyism and 1960s' Civil Rights Movement

In four pages this essay discusses the McCarthyism period and the emergence of the civil rights movement thereafter....

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...

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 ...

'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....

The Civil Rights Act of 1991

it limited the amount of damages a jury could award to an individual (Wikipedia, 2006). It is interesting to note that...

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...

Civil Rights Act of 1991

charges of intentional discrimination.4 Furthermore, the 1991 Act broadened the language of the 1866 Civil Rights Act and extended...

Thomas Hobbes And Sigmund Freud: Man Is Born Into Specific Behaviors

Hobbes clearly addresses the notion of individualism and Social Contract Theory as they relate to the moral factor behind justice....

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

Cold War Civil Rights

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

Right to Refuse Treatment

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

The Ethnocentric Approach to Human Resource Management and its use in International Companies

level with reference to the human resource issues as many individuals at head office are assumed to have insufficient local knowle...

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...

Human Rights Organizations and Colombia

In forty five pages this research study discusses Colombia in terms of the work of human rights organizations and its negative imp...

Human Rights, Sovereignty of States, and the United Nations

1995). And now that the Cold War is over, the U.N. seems more rudderless than ever - charged with requests for peace-keeping f...

Problems and Solutions for Iraq's Human Rights Situation

In ten pages this research essay discusses Iraq's human rights problems since the war in the Gulf in a consideration of policies a...

Latin America, Human Rights, and the Catholic Church

In eleven pages this research paper discusses Latin American Human rights, and the liberation theology of the Catholic Church. Fi...

New Guinea, Nigeria, and Violations of Human Rights

won the national election (Jaffrey 36). But Muslin military forces from the North called for an annulment of the democratic proce...

China and the UN's Human Rights Policy

signed by individual nations as State parties. In order to assess their commitments under those covenants, committees meet regula...

Human Rights and Homelessness

of being deprived of what they are "owed." As a result, they demand that there elected officials take their concerns into very se...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

Article on Human Rights

rights, as such, propose an unacceptably anthropocentric view of the world, which sets human beings at the top of a pyramid wherea...

Chinas and Issues Involving Human Rights

towards the Soviet Union and its leaders. The Chinese Revolution of 1911 would set in motion a series of political and...

Human Rights Act and Parliamentary Sovereignty

light of current interpretations of the Act. The Lord Chancellor (2004), speaking in 2001, sees the Act as a highly positive addit...