Various laws and regulations of customs authorities are being issued more and more often. Because of that sometimes certain difficulties in the tracking of all the changes in the legislation may arise. - Joint efforts of law enforcement agencies , taking into account the legal distribution of their powers have not yet fully focused on the identification, detection, investigation and prevention of crimes in the customs area; -Lack of proper interaction between law enforcement and customs authorities largely motivated by shortcomings and irregularities in the activities of law enforcement agenc...

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Official statistics are one of the many secondary sources of retrieving data and it can simply be defined as information collected from the general public by government agencies or private organizations, usually through a census or a survey- statistical data rounded in official statistics are mainly used for the study of demography, inflation, crime and deviance, unemployment, poverty and suicide. ... Using official statistics he tried to establish correlations between suicide and other "social facts", and ultimately to discover causal relationships and laws of human behavior. Similarly, m...

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The Government is very effectual in ensuring that Mauritius is a modern democracy, which protects and provides equal rights and opportunities for all its citizens. ... In October 2012, the Government of Mauritius launched the National Human Rights Action Plan for the period 2012-2020. ... The Action Plan embodies all the commitments taken by the Government of Mauritius to improve the human rights situation in line with international best practices. ... Educating the population on human rights at all levels and nurturing a culture of human rights in the island remains a priority for the Governm...

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The revolutionaries agreed that life, liberty, and property should be considered natural rights, emphasizing property as a main source of inequality among man, and constructed new governments based on popularized Enlightenment ideas. ... Rousseau argued that man and government were both good in nature, but were corrupted and made cruel by institutions, and that there would be no liberty without a good government protecting it. An ideal government in America included a bicameral legislature, a written constitution, and a chief officer who is elected, held to the same laws as citizens, and can...

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Unfortunately our governments control on this closed door system is very small as they cannot interfere as long as laws are not being broke, which is never strictly necessary for deals not to benefit the customer in every aspect. ...

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Policies were made by the government in order to minimize economic disparity in the United States after the Great Depression. ... The significant role money has in government decisions and elections pose a threat to democracy, with interest groups giving the vast majority of contributions. ... With money being the most important thing and inequality of incomes increasing among Americans, the fear of the elite running the government is present. ... For example, the National Rifle Association, which opposes gun control laws, has convinced legislators that its members will vote for or against ...

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Contrary to mercenaries, private military and security companies are transnational corporations legally registered which obtain contracts from governments, private firms, intergovernmental and non governmental organizations. ... In order to comply with its mandate, the Working Group must seek opinions and contributions from Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations on questions relating to its mandate and submit an annual report to both the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. ... Mercenary Activities in International Law - Customary Law and the United Nati...

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Affirms the primary responsibility of States hosting refugees to ensure the security and civilian and humanitarian character of refugee camps and settlements in accordance with international refugee, human rights and humanitarian law; 2. ... Encourages the Representative of the Secretary-General, through his continuous dialogue with Governments and all intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned, to continue his analysis of the causes of force migration, the needs of those refugees, measures of prevention and ways to strengthen protection, assistance and solutions for re...

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These special courts, while they remove the competence that is granted to lay juries by law, nevertheless diverge from one country to another as regards the extent to which they constitute a breach of the common law. ... Consequently, these special courts do not always appear to have a sound legal basis due to the fact that they constitute a breach of the common law. Section 1 - The Establishment of the Special Criminal Court in Ireland Article 38 of the Irish Constitution of 1937 guarantees the right for "all persons to be tried for a criminal offense according to the due process of law"...

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Canada has developed policies and laws that are based on the principles that terrorism must be prevented, perpetrators of terrorist acts must be brought to swift justice, and terrorists should be denied sanctuary and support. ... Solutions to the new challenges posed by information technology are inherently horizontal in nature and require an inclusive approach to policy development, involving a wide variety of stakeholders both inside and outside government. Within the federal government, departments dealing with law enforcement, national security, criminal justice, the private sector, fo...

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The unpopularity of the army at that time was also triggered by their refusal to surrender power to a civilian government for almost two years. ... According to Freedom House Organization, " The November 22nd declaration violates the most basic principles of the rule of law and accountable democracy". This was followed by a number of other totalitarian measures, for instance, Hisham Kandil's government drafted a protest law to limit the demonstrations and pacify the people's growing discontent, which clearly goes against the very idea of revolution and against any logic t...

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Thomas Jefferson viewed the nature of the common man as self-motivated and egocentric, having little faith in their moral conduct, honorable abilities, and reasoning skills, though politically he was a strong advocate of the rights of the states verses a sovereign central government. He believed government to be not a means of controlling and restricting the people of a nation, but instead thought it as an institution put in place by the people and for the people. Jefferson felt that both individuals and governments are subject to moral law, suggesting that morality refers to conduct that is...

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Harper got to be head administrator in 2006, shaping a minority government after the 2006 race. ... The Conservative government declared it had finished unhindered commerce arrangements with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). ... Since 2006, the Canadian Conservative Party government drove by Prime Minister Stephen Harper has embraced few and gutted numerous natural laws and arrangements managing rising nursery outflows, contamination issues and environmental changes. The Conservatives have additionally made noteworthy spending plan cuts at Environment Canada, prompting feedback that ...

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One of the opponents of liberal thinking, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, contributed significantly to liberal theory, although he favored strong and even unrestrained government. He argued that the sole test of government was its effectiveness rather than its basis in religion or tradition. Hobbes's pragmatic view of government, which stressed the equality of individuals, opened the way to free criticism of government and the right to revolution, ideas that Hobbes himself opposed. ... He insisted that the state should be supreme over the church and demanded universal religious toleration,...

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Two of the key pieces of legislation passed during the 1920's will also be considered, the Universal Suffrage Bill and the Peace Preservation Law, both of 1925, as together they illustrate the cautious balance between progress and retreat that punctuated interwar Japanese politics. ... Party politics had, after a two-decade struggle, finally become a weight in government, but not without compromise. ... Finally, the role of the emperor himself as the ultimate source of Japanese authority meant that any action on the part of government could be overruled by recourse to an imperial preroga...

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"Governments have passed consumer protection legislation because they believe that the common law of contracts cannot adequately protect the consumer in today's complex market place." Both the Commonwealth and Queensland State governments have legislated to provide greater protection to consumers in contractual situations that would otherwise not be provided by common law. Examples of the government introducing legislation as a means of providing greater protection to consumers than common law are: The Trade and Practices Act 1974(Cth); and The Sale of Goods Act 1895(Qld). ... But c...

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With Theodore Roosevelt's regulation of the trusts in the beginning of the 20-century, American society seemed quite settled down for a while, but the government's power over the industrial economy was still limited that the progressivism of country was impossible. ... Before the Great War, during Roosevelt's presidency, though, American economy was not able to achieve the progressivism despite his efforts to reform the national government. ... The prohibition of the sale and manufacture of alcohol began in 1920, but eventually it failed because this law raised too much controve...

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As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. ... Whichever way the situation is examined, it is always examined through the prism of a mind which has grown up and been socialised into thinking that their system of government is the best. ... Any governing regime must perform certain functions as a bare minimum, such as defence of the population from both external and internal threats via the military and enforcement ...

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Thereafter, Yanukovych signed a treaty and multi-billion dollar loan with Russia instead, which sparked civil unrest in Kiev that ultimately led to violent clashes as law enforcement troops cracked down on protesters. ... The interim government also adopted other changes as it was unable to fulfill several contractual agreements after the revolution but needed foreign investments in order to do so. ... Russia opposes the "annexation" label, with Putin defending the referendum saying it complied with international law. ... And the current political uprising was fueled by the government'...

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The Weimar Republic was a democratic government that came into power after the First World War. It is clear that this democratic government was destined to fail from the onset for several reasons. ... The constitution although guaranteed basic political liberities such as freedom of speech, equality before the law and gave men and women over the age of twenty the right to vote, the constitution allowed the president to have the right to close parliament and issues decrees at any moment under Article 48. A most undemocratic element, which, if misused, could undermine the democracy, Historian Ed...

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Pinochet's Case - Evolution in International Law On the fateful morning of October 16, 1998 General Augusto Pinochet was arrested by London's Metropolitan Police based on a preliminary extradition request from the Spanish government. ... Pinochet's case put to the test the stability and structure of our International Law system in many ways: it questioned the 1984 Torture convention on extradition provisions, claims to universal jurisdiction, diplomatic immunity, and the link between international humanitarian law and human rights law. ... The lords unanimously agreed t...

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The foundation of Hobbes' argument, as a result of this reasoning, is that he is able to compellingly claim that peace is unattainable on the rationale that humans are prone to this state of nature unless there is an established form of absolute government. ... Hobbes fist provides a set of laws, the laws of nature, which aim to guide human behavior towards self-preservation. Though there are many of them, we will focus mainly on the first three laws: the first being to seek peace, the second to make covenants or contracts, and the third simply to honor the covenants made. ... Therefor...

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In this paper the success of democratization will be measured by the sum of the level of inclusion and governmental accountability achieved. ... Nevertheless, the attitude of the demos towards democracy greatly depends on the quality of governmental accountability. ... Vertical without horizontal accountability only creates disaffection with the government or the regime. ... In both cases the commitment to uphold the rule of law is what creates a strong governmental accountability. ... This kind of commitment to enforce the rule of law on politicians as well as the citizenry is consistent in t...

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Wilson uses the analogy of Liberalism and the War as a train wreck, with the party at first being unable to deal with the government controls needed to fight a total war, and then being plunged into factionalism as the war lingers until 1916. ... The other main point of contention between the factions came in 1918 when Lloyd George and Conservative Leader Andrew Bonar Law called a General Election just after the end of World War I, running again as a national coalition. Lloyd George and Bonar Law ran a very nationalistic campaign and distributed a letter to specific Liberals and Conservativ...

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"We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of a human person, in the equal rights of men and women in nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom."" ... This is very different...

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