He however does go on to state that he believes that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. He believes it is very obvious to distinguish the difference in a just and unjust law. ... He first states that " Any law that uplifts human personality is just and any law that degrades human personality is unjust."" He emphasizes that all segregation laws are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages personality. ... These two illustrations of the differences between just and unjust laws are very straightforward and understandable. ...

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King was fighting for that, he thought there were creative injustice laws. 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. ... King goes on give more examples of just and unjust laws. ... There are some instances when a law is just on it's face, but unjust in it's application; in other words, the law is right but done in the wrong way. ... Martin Luther King talks so much about unjust and just laws in Letter from Birmingham Jail, it is just so amazing ...

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Sometimes breaking unjust laws to be treated equally isn't wrong to do. ... Through his reading he shows that the government is very unjust with its laws and people. He says "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" ... It's true there are laws that are just un-understandable for the government to have. ... King also saw unjust laws that the government wanted to strongly enforce on its decisions to granting equal civil justice to everyone in Birmingham. ...

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Where some people consider justice is the punishment of a criminal for specific violations of the law of the land, rarely is the punishment satisfactory for a victim to feel recompensed. ... Would it be unjust for the shop owner to refuse to give the child food? ... Is the law just? ... Rights under the law, and even those rights outside of the law. Where the law restricts a person's freedom to make choices concerning themselves, justice is diminished. ...

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The example he gives I that the government makes up laws to help itself and declares just for their people. ... The invisible ring is one way that living just is better then living unjust can be proven. ... Is this unjust? ... With all the money I have I can buy a house, cars, get married and have a happy life, as an unjust man. Unjust people have themselves in mind, but on the way they can help the pour or the sick. ...

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The example he gives I that the government makes up laws to help itself and declares just for their people. ... The invisible ring is one way that living just is better then living unjust can be proven. ... Is this unjust? ... With all the money I have I can buy a house, cars, get married and have a happy life, as an unjust man. Unjust people have themselves in mind, but on the way they can help the pour or the sick. ...

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Socially Constituted and Socially Defined Law An argument against the idea of Natural Law The idea of natural law has been long debated in the subject of jurisprudence. ... The sovereign is that person who decides right from wrong, and just from unjust. ... There is no such thing as natural law because the sovereign makes the laws. ... If it is this kind of procedure that makes a law, then natural law is not law at all. Natural law theorists will argue that God enforces the natural law. ...

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Glaucon's brother, Adeimantus, backs up his brother's speech by stating that an unjust man with a deceivably just reputation(which is almost always the trait of the perfectly unjust man) is also better than the just man. ... Therefore, if the following is considered true, then unjust men leads to more unjust men, and then what would happen if unjust men ruled the world. ... So therefore in the end, unjust men would lose. ... Unjust men, on the other hand, appreciate neither just men nor other unjust men. ... Real philosophers, however, find that it is in their best interest to gove...

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States and common laws exist due to an agreement among those who are relatively weak. ... For him, the strong individual has no obligation to uphold the law of the community, and he will grant that if justice is good at all, it is only good instrumentally, as a means to something else. ... In direct contrast, we have an unjust man who appears just. ... Socrates must show that the second man (the unjust man who appears just) does not live well and that the first man (the just man who appears unjust) does live well. ... Socrates himself is exactly such a man: one who is just, but appears unjust....

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People in power make laws and the weaker party is supposed to follow those laws... ""(339D) Thus, according to Thrasymachus, justice is "obediance to the laws made by the rulers in the interest of the rulers... In time, people agreed to a sort of crude system of laws that established a system of right and wrong. The laws were, however, self serving to the more powerful. ... If two men, one just and the other unjust, possess a ring that would make them invisible when warn and allow them to do as they please without detection, the two men, both the just and unjust alike, will seize the opport...

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Thrasymachus tries to find the definition of justice by the laws of the city. ... Obviously the many attempts of humans to make laws that somehow embody justice may not always hit the mark. Justice should be ideally guiding the city laws, but the notion of justice sought out by Socrates is prior to any city laws. ... City laws were what invented the term justice. ... Socrates makes the point that just people can live happy lives while the unjust cannot. ...

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As illustrated by the party platforms for the election, the general public still had little say in politics, women were still battling sexual oppression, and labor laws and health and safety regulations in the workplace were still atrocious. ... Also mentioned are the issues of child labor, minimum wage , women's labor laws, and the introduction of the "eight-hour wok day." ... Based on the statements included in the Progressive party's 1912 platform regarding public involvement in politics, the oppression of women, and the unjust labor laws in the country, one is left to assume th...

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The ancient Greek philosopher was determined to accept his unjust fate with dignity. ... "We would catch the just man red-handed going the same way as the unjust man out of a desire to get the better; this is what any nature naturally pursues as good, while it is law which by force perverts it to honor equality." He believes that anyone will be unjust, given the opportunity. ...

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Valid conduct, therefore, can only apply where there is law (89). ... In essence, the content of the law as well as the definition of acting justly or unjustly is arbitrary. ... However, the sharpest difference between the two exists in their creation of the law: why the law exists, what the law entails, and who makes the law. ... This is the reason the law exists. ... This higher power is the highest good, and it defines not only what the law will be, but also who gets to make the laws. ...

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Socrates was seemingly convinced that life a life without meaning, a life that leaves behind no legacy, or a life devoid of focus, is a life unjust and of no honor or purpose. ... Thus the law is the truth; and the truth the law both declaring, in Socrates" mind, that to live, one must live justly, honorably, and well - or not live at all. Because Socrates has not lived his life according to the law, or these truths, he shall be at the free will of the court, and will not attempt to escape. ... Likely, Socrates would argue that the law is the judge and that determining whether or not one is tr...

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Formalities of law and practice would amount to the formation of an ethical standard which Machiavelli strives to meet by actively encouraging the condemnation of those who have broken the public trust (D I.45.93). ... From Machiavelli's perspective, the citizens in a republic must overcome the notion that ingratitude is always unjust and begin seeing justice of the ingratitude as that which will help maintain freedom. ...

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