Legal Rules - reflect the values of the majority of the community and establish rights and responsibilities. Legal rules deal with the conduct of individuals in society. ... Non legal rules are made by individuals or groups, whereas legal rules or laws are made by parliament, subordinate authorities (eg. ... Non Legal Rules - apply to a group of individuals, but not to society as a whole. The members of the group agree to be bound by the rules, which do not have the force of law. ...

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The World Trade Organization, or the WTO, is a multinational organization that controls and deals with the rules of trade between countries. Their rules and documents are signed by the majority of all major countries' parliamentary or legislative branches, and govern how trade works between these countries. ... The WTO has several dispute panels that rule on which laws and policies are barriers to trade. ... The rules are written by large scale corporations for large scale corporations. ... While it may seem like nothing unfair to the average consumer, the majority of the clothing and thi...

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Oppressive majority rule can work in many ways. The majority may bring pressure on the government to enact laws that specifically work against the minority. The majority, either through law or through other means may blank out the views of the minority, leaving only their own views to be heard. ... But what would happen if the majority held a view, such as the earth is flat, and oppressed the minority that believed it to be round. ... It must allow the society to hold together with accepted rules and regulations without infringing on personal freedoms. ...

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One that protects the rights of minorities while attempting to serve the greater whole by relying on a majority vote. It is however not a democracy in the strict sense of the word, the majority does not always rule over the minority. It is what is known as a majority rule with minority rights. The majority vote cannot take away the rights of minorities (even though we know this is not true as we have seen time and time again minorities having rights taken away, ideologically it is not suppose to happen). ...

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Analysis of the Case The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Griswold and found that Connecticut statute was invalid as an unconstitutional invasion of the right of privacy of married persons. The Supreme Court ruled that the "statute forbidding use of contraceptives violates the right of marital privacy which is within the penumbra of specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights." According to Justice Douglas, who wrote the majority opinion, the rights people have are more than what can be read in the literal language of the Constitutional text. ... The Vote Majority: Douglas Concurring: B...

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Where democracy is present, a tyranny of the majority may occur. Tyranny of the majority is the assumption made that the majority is most likely to be correct than then minority and minorities are deprived of their rights. ... In Edmonton there is an obvious group who suffers from oppression from the majority. ... When politicians aim for the majority vote, they try and focus on the average needs of the majority. ... Such minority groups that do not have a voice are subject to the rules of the country they live in. ...

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Indonesia is no exception to this rule. ... Nevertheless, even to this date there has been no legal repentance for the violence instilled by those in dedicated support of Ex-President Soeharto, in their many failed attempts to postpone his 1998 fall from power, nor has there been punishment for the majority of abominations committed during his lengthy reign as Indonesian leader. ... Habibie and Abdurrahman Wahid, did use their power to release the majority of the prisoners captured during Soeharto's time in office. Even with the releases, by 2003 at least forty-six new prisoners had been ...

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To protect our rights, Jefferson and others organized a democratic government in which there was rule by the people. ... Thus, the right can be taken away by the government for the best interest of the majority population. ...

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The complaints were originally filed to pursue reparations for crimes committed against the deaths of Spanish citizens in Chile and Argentina under Pinochet's rule, but was broadened to include all the crimes of the regime. ... According to International Human Rights and Authoritarian Rule in Chile by Darren G. ... After extensive deliberations and speculation into international law, the majority (nine of twelve) ruled that Pinochet was not protected by diplomatic immunity and could be extradited to Spain to stand trial for crimes committed against humanity. ... The wording and Chile&#x...

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Functions of the Law - Michael Jefkins In today's society it is often the long arm of the law that maintains the order needed to go about our lives. Many people often dismiss the law as unimportant as they will never have to be involved with a day in court. These people, however, are missing entire...

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He states in Letter from Birmingham Jail that: "There are just and unjust laws, a unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal, but a just law is a code that a majority compels on a minority to follow that is willingto follow itself. ... Plato states in The Myth of the Cave, "Will they rule who are truly rich, not in sliver and gold, but in virtue and wisdom, which are the true blessing of life"(pg42). ...

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The Watutsis regarded themselves as an elite minority, constantly on guard against real and imaginary plots by the Bahutu majority. ... The Germans established indirect rule over the central African territory by permitting the Watutsi aristocracy to retain its dominance over the feudal structure. ... The Allied victory in World War I led to Belgian military rule in Burundi in 1916, known then as Ruanda-Urundi. ... This change had real importance, as the U.N. trust criteria required Belgium to prepare the population for self-rule. This meant majority rule. ...

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If the myriad counsels of the United Nations would step forward and not strive to please the Christian majority, then the conflict would definitely get under control. ... India (Hindu majority) and Pakistan (Muslim majority) have been feuding ever since they gain independence during the Gandhi era. ... Under the most barbaric and crude thought processes, poverty can be ruled lower on a scale compared to preventing conflict; people can live in poverty for life spans, but conflicts endanger lives straight forwardly, without a mask of disease or malnourishment. ...

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Woman suffer ill treatment and abuse, particularly in the Middles East region in places like Pakistan, where their lives are ruled and dictated by men. ... The main aim of the Chinese government is to maintain "stability" by removing any desire for self rule and removing loyalty to the Dalai Lama. ... This causes for a high level of concern and action, however the halt of all human rights abuses does not look promising in the majority of cases. ...

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Since State of Vermont Supreme Court ruled that same sex marriages or civil unions were not protected under the current law. ... Baker v State of Vermont is what the court ruled, that under the current laws a civil union and marriage were between a man and women not two people of the same sex. ... Johnson said "My dissent form the majority's mandate is grounded on the government's limited interest in dictating public morals outside the scope of police power, and the differing roles of the judicial and legislative branches in our tripartite system of government ." ... Though the m...

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In video 8 we learned that former President Bush had declared Panama had been freed and that Democracy had been restored. Named Operation Just Cause, the United States military campaign was condemned throughout the region as a violation of Panama's sovereignty and their right as a nation to determi...

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The UN Convention applies to "every human being" below the age of eighteen years, unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier". ... If the Court ruled in favour of the applicant, this country would be obliged to amend the relevant law to bring it into the line with the Convention, to compensate the applicant if ordered to do so, and to take such other steps as were required of it. ... The decision of the Circuit Court was upheld by the High Court, but on the appeal by way of case stated the Supreme Court ruled that the wishes of the natural father should not b...

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Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not protect private homosexual relations among consenting adults. ... Supreme Court ruled that the states could not deny basic civil rights protections to homosexuals. ... Although a majority of nations have signed the covenants, the U.S. has not yet done so. ...

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Much of globalization has become an "affair of the industrial North destroying local cultures, widening world inequalities and worsening the lot of the impoverished, the majority condemned to a life of misery and despair" (Giddens, 33). ... One of the main reasons for the growing disparity is that more powerful countries already have more wealth and thus an upper hand in "free" trade and many other aspects of globalization- "Globalization might actually be good for poor countries, if only rich countries played by the rules" (Beatty, 1). ... The WTO has even ruled that it is illegal for a gover...

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It should be noted that the majority of formal laws concern exactly the rights of women, including their political rights (Ibraeva 2003:11) Inequality between the sexes is mainly based on gender stereotypes, which mean that women's rights were limited both in traditional nomadic Kazakh culture and in the soviet system before transition. ...

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The Way of Napoleon, or King Louis? Napoleon Bonaparte was the key leader to help execute the domestic reforms the revolution had come up with during their reign of revenge on the king. He did this during the time of when he ruled the french in his empire,1799-1815. Napoleon took the ideas of the...

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King understood that his Negro people needed to break the unjustified rules of society to allow all the children of God to be free and for justice to be exercised. ... King states: "But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society" (720). ...

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THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND THE `LEGAL AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE' OVER INDIGENOUS RIGHTS[*] ABSTRACT/RESUME Many Indian leaders have recognized that the Supreme Court of Canada has changed direction very significantly on issues of treaty and aboriginal rights. As a result, Indian ...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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