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Issues in Australian Law

The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...

Reno V American Civil Liberties Union

both verbal and physical battle; indeed, to interfere with ones inherent constitutional rights is to intrude upon the very essence...

AIDS: Duties To Treat Infected Persons

the same decision-making abilities as the next person with respect to how they conduct their lives; how those choices are put to u...

Women's Suffrage Movement In Canada

women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...

The First Amendment and Art

This essay presents a scenario in which the writer is presumed to be the major of a city who is confronted with a problematic situ...

Article I, Protocol I of the Human Rights Convention and Property Law's Impact Upon the Human Rights Act of 1998

was an interesting case, but it is indicative of how individual human rights can be seen to cross over with property law (Reed, 20...

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Its Effect on the Third Estate

always outvote the Third Estate" (Hooker, 1996). It was, in effect, a "rubber stamp" for the nobility to pass the legislation that...

Washington & Du Bois/Who Was Right?

separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted by Du Bois 24). This "c...

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

the future for the struggles of the African Americans in the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil-Rights Leader, 2007). H...

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

free speech. Certainly, there are limits to speech, but at least the Constitution protects the rights of individuals ideologically...

Gun Control: Rights

citizen who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of society who will always have access to firearms...

Transgender Bathroom Rights

their physical gender" (Armstrong, 2006). The issues that such people face "on a daily basis are not issues people in the wider co...

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women

speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...

Executive Power: Protection Versus Personal Rights

integral role in saving society from such fatal intrusion, with proponents contending it has, indeed, become imperative for govern...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

Trans People & Bathroom Rights in Canada

meet the health needs of trans people (Sandeen). A fact cited by Davis is that only 15 to 20 percent of individuals who identify t...

Women’s Rights in the Military

cooks, laundresses and saboteurs" Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc., 2007). They clearly had no righ...

Legal Rights: Case Studies

the arrest the car was searched and weapons and magazine clips were found, all pointing to the mens involvement in a robbery. Th...

"Declaring Rights"

happened at the Constitutional Convention, and trying to reassure them that the new federal government still leaves a great deal o...

FBI Counterintelligence and the Civil Rights Movement

years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow o...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Voting Rights Laws"). Before the Civil War, "the United States Constitution did not provide specific protections for voting" ("Be...

ADA And Fourth Amendment Rights

Section 504 was enacted in 1973, its full implications are only now being realized. This is particularly true of those components...

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

Sociological Article Analysis (New Soldiers in the Fight for Human Rights)

the fact that the human rights field has grown immensely, but what it also does that is not quite as obvious is to suggest that un...

Victim’s Rights Legislation in Washington State

or when their status changes; it says in part that a new "statewide automated victim information and notification system" will be ...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Gun Control and the Right to Own a Gun

maintaining the right own guns and it is also an amendment wherein many people claim modern times no longer dictate such a need. P...

First Amendment Rights: Pornography

pose as children. Pornography is only permissible from a constitutional rights standpoint when consenting adults are involved, in...

Parental Rights in Adoption

decision based on the fact that Quilloin had "never exercised actual or legal custody over the child," nor had he been responsible...