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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Post-WWII Canada/2 books

baby-boomers from their beginning, at wars end, to the end of the sixties" (Owram xii). His then states that his discussion also i...

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...

Articles VIII and X of 1998's The Human Rights Act

Court interpretation of Article 8 and Article 10 of 1998's Human Rights Act is examined in 7 pages....

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...

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 ...

'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....

LAW FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS

This 3-page paper analyzes tenant and landlord law, going into issues such as Implied Warranty of Habitability and tenant rights. ...

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...

Minority Shareholders' Rights and UK Law

This paper examines the limitations and rights of minority shareholders in the UK. This ten page paper has nine sources listed in...

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...

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...

War in Africa

starvation (Philips). While this African nation is at peace today, the causes of this conflict, that is, "ethnic rivalry and mist...

The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar. This relates the central themes a...

Civil Disobedience from the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...

Civil Disobedience, Martin Luther King, and Henry David Thoreau

gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...

Walden and Civil Disobedience Examined Critically

of submitting to such solitude seems to be particularly poignant in todays society, where we all live such hectic, fast-paced live...

The Civil War

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

Civil Law Countries and Their Criminal Justice Systems

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

The Continued Need for Civil Disobedience

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

Civil Procedure - A Summary

or a given dispute (Marcus & Rowe, 2008). Constitutional citations are usually given to grant or deny jurisdiction to a given co...