The famous excerpt from Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson sets a good direction for the standards all humans should endorse, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"(878). ... Our value doesn't serve any instrumental value to others and is completely independent of the assessment of other people. ... Some people might argue that the government cannot really devise a set of laws and rights that can serve towa...

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Bastille set the example in political protest from France and other countries to follow. ... The big change was that governments should serve the people and not the other way around. This set the example and had profound impact on other countries. ... This set an example for other countries to follow, with serfdom and slavery gradually abolished elsewhere. ... Following the revolution, the French gained religious tolerance and set up state run schools. ...

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Each document, despite their similar purpose, sets its own standard of rights and has its own distinctive features which have all emerged from their past history. ... The Atlantic Charter was a document that reiterated the four freedoms; Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear, and set the standard at which the post-World War II world would base its values. ... Along with the creation of the UN, a new objective was set, to create an international system of protection for human rights. ... These trials set the precedent for later international war crimes ...

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Laws are never set in stone and people who have helped to change these laws are the ones that served consequences for them but in the long run they were the very same people who helped to make our justice system even stronger and more reputable. ...

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Instead the framers set up a decentralized representative government that was limited by the Bill of Rights (and other amendments to follow) to protect personal liberties. ... One that protects the rights of minorities while attempting to serve the greater whole by relying on a majority vote. ...

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In his article "The Case for Torture," Michael Levin tries to show that it is morally mandatory to torture in certain extreme situations, specifically when a terrorist has information about a bomb which is set to go off soon and which, if detonated, would result in the deaths of thousands, if not millions, of innocent people. ... If we cannot be sure that we have got the right person who has the information or that there really is a bomb set to go off soon, then we cannot be sure that we are justified in torturing. ... Authorities could then decide to torture the doctor to serve as an exampl...

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When governments must create laws to cover the censorship of information, they are imposing one set of pre-determined values and beliefs on every one of the inhabitants of that country. ... These people believe in the democratic factor that the government should serve for the people's wishes. ... A true democratic government is set up to make laws and to keep the society in order. ...

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The cahiers des doleances, May 1789, served as the first opportunity for the women of France, along with the rest of the country, to share their grievances. ... Early in the morning of October 5th 7,000 women rallied outside the Hotel de Ville and set off on the fourteen kilometer march to Versailles, armed with pikes, clubs, knives, swords, muskets, and a cannon (4). ...

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It is through their dualistic system, this act served as a facilitator towards the access of the Convention rights within the UK domestic courts. ... " The domestic court had to follow the precedent set by the Strasbourg court in the case of A v UK. ...

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Of all the rights and freedoms guaranteed us in the Constitution, it is generally agreed that those set forth in the First Amendment are among the most vital and precious. ... The only kind of censorship that can ever really work and serve our own and society's interests must be the examples, guidance and leadership of parents and citizens. ...

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So, usually 2-3 million dollars and 8 years later, justice is served when the criminal is put to death. ... My feelings have stumbled now not just because it's someone I know, but also because I have a different perspective of a set of events that led up to the situation. ...

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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 wom...

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The zygote contains a full set of 46 chromosomes which is required to create a human life. ... He successfully did so and the judge believed Hollis set out intentionally to kill that fetus and that is in fact murder. ...

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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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A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty. 5. ... And thus,...

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It built on the work of activists around the world who set up shelters, counseling centers, and batterer treatment programs, often borrowing from each other and adapting ideas from one context to another. ...

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