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Women's Rights, Working Hours, and the 1908 Case of Muller v. Oregon

law passed in 1905 that prevented the women working for more than ten hours a day. Muller argued that this was unconstitutional, a...

Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights

the lowest available airfare and instead fill the more expensive seats first, then the cheapest fares are released. This obviously...

Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau and its Contemporary Relevance

Middle East. Ever since the 9-11 attacks on the United States, much has been made about totalitarian dictatorships, and the hatred...

Global Property Rights and Power Shifts

be seen as a bundle of rights which may be separable, for example the sub soil rights may be the property of the state, but others...

Policies of President Jimmy Carter and the Relations Between the United States and the Soviet Union

he wanted the American people to believe how the United States Government "can be both competent and more humane" (Carter, 1979, p...

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 ...

Assisted Suicide and Quality of Life

merely deny treatment. This is a commonly understood doctrine and one upheld by most medical professionals. However, many argue...

Rights of Smokers

their hands on half-a-trillion dollars in new cigarette taxes" ("Politicians" PG). The new taxes gives the Democrats who like to t...

Criticism of the Individual Regarding Democracy

In five pages Ayn Rand and Alexis de Tocqueville's perspectives are applied to the problems of the individual as the result of dem...

Chinese Women's Rights and the Impact of Christianity

In 5 pages this paper examines rights for Chinese women in a consideration of the impact and influence of Christianity on them. F...

Government Involvement and Laws of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Rights

In twenty five pages this report discusses the government's invovlement in protecting intellectual property in a consideration of ...

A Human Rights Examination

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

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...

Issues Regarding Brokers

If we wish to consider new issues and the way that there is a need for a broker, then we need to consider the role of the broker....

The Dax Cowart Case Examined Philosophically

due to the fact that she was in so much pain. However, in the case at hand, the situation was far more serious. If one accepts th...

On Liberty by J.S. Mill

by the first amendment is that one cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Why? While people have freedom to say what they like, ...

The Lack of Rights of Children due to Globalization

to be sold for the greatest amount of profit in the "First" world. According to Clifford (1994), in Pakistan, girls as young as t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

U.S. Federalism and the Rights of States

Federalism is also a method of protecting the people from the excesses of government and provides a check and balance against the ...

Biography of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

other first ladies of this or any other time. The concept of first lady leadership is easy to define, but it is not as easy to ex...