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Criminal Law Considered in 4 Questions

fair and sensible legal procedure based primarily upon morality and justice. Alexander the Great was the instrumental force behin...

French Public Schools and Veil Wearing Muslim Women

complete and unrelenting distinction between church and state. There would be no religious exceptions, whatsoever, and this inclu...

Citizenship, Rights, Identities, and Gender

ideal women are inferior. Based upon a conviction of inferiority, male authorities were then able to design lifestyles for women,...

John Locke and the Right to Revolt Against Government Authority

"Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes w...

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...

Karl Marx, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...

1960s and 1970s' Women's Rights Movement

a kind of focus for the Feminist Movement that rejected the concept of femininity and the separation of men and women in the famil...

Constitutional Rights, Early Arrest Phase, and Mandatory DNA Testing

To tackle the question of the rights or wrongs of DNA testing at the point of arrest, it must be acknowledged up front that DNA ev...

Do Global Issues Include Gender Discrimination and Gender Rights?

in turn participation in collective action" (p. 242). Allowing societies to deal with gender issues as they see fit enforces isol...

U.S. Constitution and Classical Liberalism

for all citizens of a nation. Then we have Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher whose focus was on morals. He was, interestingly ...

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...

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...

Case Law and Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

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...

New Nation of America and its Founding Documents

official title of the document was unanimously passed on July 2, 1776, signed on July 4, 1776 with an official proclamation made i...

Rights and Wisconsin v. Yoder

both the Amish religion and the Amish way of life (University of Missouri/Kansas City, 2003). The parents felt that by sending the...

Women's Perspectives on Africa's Postcolonial State and Nationalism

efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

Exploring Transsexuality and its Modern World Implications

issues involve health and human welfare, paternity and maternity claims, and military and personal-identification regulations amon...

Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Communications Technology

means they will be safer. Such paradigms have been used to control crime, but there are a myriad of legal issues when it comes to ...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Pride and Prejudice and Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century

There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...

Property Rights and the Political Philosophy of John Locke

In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...

Oregon's Death with Dignity Act and the American Government

request, but may not require, the patient to notify their next-of-kin of the prescription request. A patient can rescind a request...

Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy and the Concept of Rights

the issue of rights we may start with the theoretical foundation of the role that rights and the way these are seen in terms of e...

Workplace, Employees, and Physical Fitness

stay fit through many incentives. And in going in this direction, the employer can end up saving many health care and other types ...

The California Family Rights Act and Economic Issues

places a greater burden on businesses in todays environment than it did in years past before the great downsizing waves that swept...

Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, and Early Feminism

(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...

English Aristocratic Class in The Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham Smith

than the military ineptitude without. In fact, the author makes clear that had it not been for aristocratic pride and arrogance, ...