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US Democracy and its Legitimacy

in some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blind...

Martin Frye's Views on Sexism

"an instance of a general tendency to make sex relevant where it need not be, which she takes to be a key feature of sexism" (Saul...

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...

Employment Recruitment, Promotions, Employees' Duties and Rights

few ethnic men and women have broken through the racial barriers from a century ago is indicative of the still stringent attitude ...

Spirituality and Politics According to Tinder

on special interests; further, in Tinders words, "[G]overnment comes to the aid of only the well organized and influential ... Pol...

International Law and Privacy

real sanctions that country can suffer for breaching an international law. It can be argued that the reason for the agreement is...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Judaism and Human Rights Advocate Abraham Joshua Heschel

the value of religious discourse allowed an "intelligent passion" (Novak, 1998, pp. 63-67) where fear and trepidation once lurked....

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

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...

East Timor Dili Court and Failed Justice

the international community to see the perpetrators of the atrocity brought to justice. The trials that have taken place have re...

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 ...

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....

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...

Animal Conservation Argument

the normal way of life. While in this schizophrenic society people eat animals, they also keep animals as pets, and so there is a ...

Relationship Between Income, Gender, and Civic Activism

possessed a higher IQ and the ability to reason. With this discovery, Singer writes, the line between a divine being and the lesse...

Women's Rights Movement Pioneers

in society. Admittedly, each of these women lived during a time in which, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton so aptly observed, men sought...

Various Employee Issues in the Workplace Workplace Considerations: Entitlements, The History of Rights, Education & Training, Community Support, and Whistle-Blowing

so medical and dental coverage from an employer for the employees. Entitlements on the other hand are more so agreements which exi...

Gun Ownership and the Rights of the People

Americans are against taking away the rights of individuals to own a gun. But what theyre increasingly demanding is rational cont...

Ex Convicts and Voting in New Jersey

police arrest and charge more black people with crime. It seems that white people get away with crime, or that false allegations a...

Post 1900 International Women's Rights

own children. For example, if a woman were abused by her husband, the Catholic church wouldnt help her (since they held that women...

Railway and Airline Industry Labor Relations Laws

reach out to rank-and-file workers, who have been demoralized by their immense sacrifices" (pp. 56). The student researching airli...