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Essays 1801 - 1830

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Religious Freedom Protection

such cases must go. The political legal system of this nation is where all such matters are ultimately decided. It is also the pla...

Unborn Babies, Genetic Defects, and Parents' Right to Know

with it a great deal of uncertainty and guilt. Needless to say, most men and women who undertake abortions do not do so lightly o...

The Legal Issues Involved in Animal Rights

groups, such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), have won some legal battles. Germany has changed its constitut...

Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title VII

cropped up as a result of Title VII. People with religious beliefs sometimes refuse to wear hats or certain clothing that is a req...

Brown v. Board of Education Case Decision and its Effects

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

1964 Civil Rights Act

(1957), for example, argued that the basis for separation and discrimination was linked to the fact that employees did not want to...

Rights, Empowerment, and Social Work Legislation

Rights The concept of human rights have been a part of discussions on ethics and the ethical treatment of many different populati...

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Hoffa v. the United States

on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349 F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a...

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...

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...

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...

Issues of First Amendment Law

In the first of these cases, Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr, a trash hauler in Kansas had his contract terminated because...

Community Notification on Reported Sex Offenders

is a great deal of difficulty resuming normal life. This is true for any convict, but it is especially difficult for the sex offen...

United States After the Civil War and Considerations of Economics, Workers' Rights, and Ethnicity

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

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...

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...

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...

Overview of Government Surveillance

this legislation, although it increasing the ability of surveillance in some situation, such as when the Office of Fair Trading (O...

Book Review of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights

the Asian culture itself. Other than that, some of the authors point out that on the one hand, many times, Asian governmen...

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...

Civil Rights Movement and the Impact of the Cold War

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

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 ...