Banning gay marriage would mean stripping gay couples of their liberty, which is something the United States stands upon and feels strongly about. ... Not only is the 14th amendment being violated, but even the Declaration of Independence is violated as well. ... Despite the banning of gay marriage, violating both the 14th amendment and the Declaration of Independence, many will still claim that gay marriage is against god's will or use something within the bible. ... Even if religious values were not used to debate the legalization of gay marriage, the 14th Amendment and Declaration of...

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The Declaration itself was, of course, non-violent. The objectives specified in the Declaration were non-violent as well. The Declaration urged men to disobey the draft in order to force an end to the war. ... The Declaration stated, "The use of the military resources of the United States in Vietnam and elsewhere suppresses the aspirations of the people for political independence and economic freedom" (Dellinger et al, 840). ... Therefore it is imperative that we know the definition and purpose of civil disobedience, what constitutes civil disobedience, and the changes that it can bring about...

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In other words, if a law enforcement official felt terrorist activity was to potentially occur, he or she was permitted to do whatever possible to gather information about the potential risk. ... This is not what our Founding Fathers foresaw nor wanted when they signed the Declaration of Independence. ... To quote the Declaration of Independence: "whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it....

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During this time the Declaration of Independence followed by the U.S. ... Plato believed in Classical Conservation, that justice in our society has a "natural order" of things and in his book, The Republic, he goes into detail about how just like human organs, society has a harmony where all individuals play a key role and perform to their abilities. ... Democracy is about the people's right to representation and justice, which is key for the rights to free markets and protection of property....

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At the San Francisco Conference of 1945, Zeineddine of Syria described that the concept of sovereign equality of States include the principles that; firstly, the States are juridically equal; that each State enjoys the right inherent in full sovereignty; that the personality of the State is respected, as well as its territorial integrity; and finally that the State should, under international order, comply faithfully with its international duties and obligations.14Furthermore, the principle of sovereign equality of States has also been described as including the elements of juridical equality...

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However, in dealing with the conflicts between employers and employees at that moment, the way the American government reacted to these cases generated fierce discussion about justice and injustice. ... The issue in the Muller case is more about gender, not the workers, which makes the Muller verdict unjust. ... The Declaration of Independence that advocated liberty and fairness nearly had no influence on improving the status of women. ...

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The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". ... The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population, but they comprise about half of all prison inmates and 40% of those sentenced to death. ...

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While the judiciary does not enforce or create the laws; their declaration as constitutional or unconstitutional is important for the protection of the people. ... Hobbes understands that people will do anything that will benefit them and not think about others. ... "Periodical appointments, however regulated, or by whomsoever made, would, in some way or other, be fatal to their necessary independence. ... I think that the Supreme Court did not uphold the merits of the constitution here because they only thought about the majority of the citizens in their ruling and not the American citizens w...

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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. ... Hurston was warned about wearing religious tee-shirts in the workplace, while Judeo-Christians were permitted to express Judeo-Christian themes on their clothing"(Hurston v. ...

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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. ... The state...

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When they perceive as (if they were) isolated individuals, their actions become both selfish and cowardly, for "as soon as each man gets to thinking about his personal danger, he becomes worthless and weak, his virtu vanishes; his actions begin to undermine the community and produce his isolation" Two crucial concepts are thus drawn regarding the citizen: that individual diversity is a necessity within the state, and that there must be an interactive dynamic and collaboration between its citizens. ...

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