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Essays 1891 - 1920

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

Human Rights and How They Have Evolved

may appear as a primary concept, it has been met with great hostility, with critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is...

Interrogations and Law Enforcement

long investigation by the Washington Post into allegations that homicide detectives engaged in activities that in fact coerced mur...

Environmental Compassion and Natural Rights

a simple matter of applying social responsibility, which is defined as being aware of the impacts ones actions have upon the rest ...

Privacy Rights and and Government Wiretapping

also been a significant breach in individual privacy, inasmuch as computers have been structured to extrapolate personal informati...

Brain Dominance and Various Learning Styles

dominant student (Freed and Parsons, 1997). However, this traditional way of teaching does not take into account -- at any point -...

Right to Light, Covenants, and Land Law in the United Kingdom

covenant was pout in place to bind or benefit a single party, but more usually the successive owners or users of the land. However...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Human Rights Examination

that has these things may just consider it business as usual. Universal definition of human rights The overall definition ...

Famous Speech on the Rights of Women

opinions with regard to womens rights. Indeed, she did not apologize for her forceful tone or powerful declaration; rather, that ...

'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...

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...

Striking and Teachers

scene or people could die. Similarly, hospitals need staff and emergency personnel. One can see why striking in such occupations a...

Northern Ireland's Human Rights Offenses

In twenty pages this paper considers Northern Ireland and its historical pattern of abusing human rights in a discussion of releva...

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....

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...