Almost all law schools in the United States require a four-year college degree. Ivy League schools especially prefer college graduates from prestigious universities. ... The class that entered in 1999 numbered 93 women and 85 men, over half of whom had been out of college for two or more years." ... The bar examination is composed of multiple choice questions and essays, covering basic legal material, specific knowledge about the law of that specific state, and legal ethics. ... From application to law school to passage of the bar examination, law school carries students a long way in their pu...

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The third branch, the judicial power, the application of law to particular situations exercised by independent judges. ... The federalists, a group of men writing newspaper essays to answer the anti-federalists attacks on the Constitution, gave notice that the best way to stop tyranny is by creating a system of check and balances. ... The people can vote for whom they chose in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, and all those representatives can vote for the President in the Electoral College. ...

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In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke speculated about how politics must confront the issue "of freedom the will of the individual"(Locke, 43) and how their freedom must be subject to "constant, certain, and known principals"(Locke, 44), so that when conflicts of justifying rights emerge the government will have a guide by which to reference their decision against. ... Vriend was fired from King's College for being homosexual. "Vriend's application for a ...

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