Austin: Positivist Identity of law: what makes the law the law Law (is) = Rules + (issued by a) Sovereignty. ... Only rules of positive law are laws. ... Natural law provides a criteria for deriving and evaluating laws in a legal system. ... Laws may be unjust also. But, he says that the circumstance may demand that an unjust law be follwed as disobedience leads to weakening the legal system. ...
He was charged with two statutory offences and one common law offence. ... THE HEARSAY ISSUE ISSUE Should the hearsay evidence be admitted in terms of s 3 (c) of the Law of Amendment Act RULE OF LAW Under the rule of law section, statutes that are appropriate and that apply to this case would be discussed and listed as well as other cases that have some relevance to this case. ... STATUTE This rule of law points out to the court the conditions under which it can give discretion to admit hearsay evidence. Section 3 of the Law of Evidence Amendment Act , 3. Hearsay Evidence. ...
The death penalty has also been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robbery, kidnapping, rape [or] treason. ( Zimring, 1994, P.1 )But who is really being unjust in this situation? ... Even though almost everything and everybody speaks against capital punishment, people still believe, those who commit violent crimes should be punished to the fullest extend of law, which capital punishment basically is. ... (C) The Catholic religion believes that it unjust to solve a crime of violence with violence. ... support the death penalty laws. ...
The issues surrounding abortion strike questions based on ethics, morals, emotions, and law. ... People who are pro-choice believe that women hold the right to abort a pregnancy, but people who are pro-life believe that abortion is wrong and unjust to the fetus. ... The amendment states that, "No person or state may deprive a person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law" (475 US Constitution). ... Although the law has set boundaries on when a fetus should be considered a citizen, there are people who believe that life starts before birth no matter wh...
Using this outline of love and non-violence, which is a modification and combination of Jesus and Gandhi's beliefs, King assembled a group to contest the laws in Birmingham, Alabama. ... "Eight local clergy published a letter referring to King and his fellow civil rights activists as outsiders, calling the protests unwise and untimely' and praising law enforcement, in particular, on the calm manner in which these demonstrations have been handled."" ... "A just law is a ...
Also, for these few who are not Christian or those who merely choose to ignore God's will, is secular law the best solution? According to Luther, "By such externally imposed law [non-Christians] would be compelled to desist from evil, and would be hedged about by outward law and government, and subjected to authority" (Luther 9). In essence, the secular Sword and laws are set forth for the unjust not the just. ... He needs no law of man, only the law of love and nature, to set his path aright and to live in the service of God. ... Peace cannot exist in the state of war born out of th...
Corruption angered the people of those days, it is stated that, "Christian thought had penetrated deep and irradiated government, law, education, the structure of society, even trade and war. " (Brewer 262) In the medieval time period there were not only corruptions in the church but in the government's legal system as well. This frustrated the people because it made everything unjust whether it was through the church, government, or society. ...
(Latin: Legum Baccalaureus which is an undergraduate degree in law.) ... It was the campaign's goal to be civically disobedient against six of the unjust laws. ... It was a two-year diploma in law that allowed Mandela to open the first South African black law firm. ... They needed something more, something new, something that would end the unjust laws of apartheid. ...
Racial Profiling: "Its Time to Put an End to this Unjust Practice" It has happened to actors such as Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, Blair Underwood and LeVar Burton. ... It would seem that skin color alone may very well make you a suspect in America, and more likely to be stopped by our law enforcement personnel. ... But law enforcement tactics remain concentrated in the inner city, continuing to feed the perception that drug dealers and users are black. ... The practice of profiling has "helped breed a deeply corrosive mistrust of law enforcement (Shipler...
I must resist those who punish me unjustly." ... When they were about to get married, Maison, Rochester's brother-in-law announced that Mr. ... Jane's high demand for equality is just to fight with the social unjust treatment and traditional marriage system. ...
She was educated at the State University of Alabama, where she studied law. ... This reflects Harper Lee because her father was a lawyer and she studied law at university. ... Whilst in the red room, she feels that it is "unjust" (P.10) that no one said anything to John for irresponsibly striking her. ...
Stephen Blackpool: The Pathetic Figure Charles Dickens's Hard Times is one of the most important novels in the Victorian Age. He presents an industrial society in nineteenth century in England. In this age, England prospers in manufacture and trade because of high technologies. It is also a time of trouble. Industrial development causes terrible conditions of a working class. ...
This means passing HR3214 into law and putting resources and technology in place to unmistakably determine the guilt of those on death row. ... We believe the death penalty should be used if it is the only possible way of defending human lives against the unjust aggressor. ... How ironic it is that in such a climate, our nation's top law enforcement official, Attorney General John Ashcroft, keeps pushing for the death penalty in federal cases, often overriding the recommendations of his local federal prosecutors - despite the fact that, as of this writing, jurors in 20 of the last 2...
The Ayatollah went ahead with his plan of instituting Islamic law as Iran's statutes. ... This brings us to the first major conflict in the memoir: Marina Nemat's belief that her incarceration at Evin prison by the Iranian government was unjust and inhumane. ... Conversely, the Iranian government feels that it is their duty to enforce Islamic law. ... We have to protect Islam, God's law, and God's people from the evil forces that are at work against them.... They view the actions taken as a direct violation of Islamic law without room for debate. ...
Nomos is loosely translated as LAW; while PHYSIS is loosely translated as nature. ... Believers in PHYSIS argued that there was an external reality, that there were universal truths and universal laws that human involvement was not necessary for reality to exist. ... The Platonic writing, the Crito, explores the issue of whether individuals have a moral obligation to obey the laws of the state in which they live. ... The Contract Argument consists of the major premise: Anyone who lives in a city, state, etc. where he is free to leave makes a just agreement to obey its laws. ... From these tw...
This happened because Colonel John Graves Simcoe was Upper Canada's first lieutenant governor and he wanted to pass a law to ban slavery. On August 28th 1833 Britain passed a law freeing and ending slavery in all of its thirteen colonies freeing over 300 slaves. This law came into effect August 1st 1834. ...
For instance, in 1640, the governor of CT passed a law requiring all colonists to grow hemp or face heavy fines (Roulac 32). ... The U.S legislators who drafted the first laws against marijuana, made a great effort in distinguishing it from hemp, ruling that they were not the same and that the laws against marijuana did not apply to hemp. ...
Having read King Lear, one is left with shock, disappointment, and sadness realizing that the world can be so cruel and unjust. King Lear is a reality made fiction. It reflects an image of our modern world in which most people are not human beings anymore. Everyone seeks for his/her own interests wi...
David Leeb wrote a very compelling, unpublished paper titled "Shades of Goodman Brown". In this paper, Leeb discussed a common "yarn" that presented itself in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. He writes that "It is truly curious that ...
Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality educat...
Many people fled their countries to escape harsh living conditions (poverty), the treat of war, and unfair and unjust treatment. ... There were also laws restricting immigration that were passed during 1882 - 1924. ... There was also the quota laws which limited the number of immigrants coming into the country and discriminated against southern and eastern European immigrants. ... The immigration laws have been made very strict now a days due to the terrorism attacks on September 11, 2001, and the current ongoing war in Iraq. ...
Their monopolization by any country, nation or group of persons would be unjust. ... I venture to suggest that it is the fundamental law of nature, without exception, that nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only everybody took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. ...
At that time, thee were few laws governing healthy living and working conditions. ... Man to man is very unjust, who can you trust. ... It aided the momentum which resulted ultimately in the passage of Pure Food Laws.(Americana, ) American readers were shocked by the details of the dirty and brutal conditions in the plants where meat was packed, and as a direct result of The Jungle these laws were passed to make sure that sanitary c conditions and Federal Inspection took place in the slaughterhouses and packing plants. ...
This is in stark contrast to the idea that there must be some sort of natural law which governs all human beings. According to the theory of natural law, our laws are merely a reflection of this foggy, grander conceptual law which exists somewhere in the minds of all people. In our society, we make the best laws that we can in accordance with the general idea of morality most people have. ... The problem is that there is no great consensus on what this ideal law is, and until we reach that point, we must fall back on trusting that other people's ethics and morality are just as valid as...
