His land ethic has become a modern classic and may be treated as the standard example of environmental ethics. ... However, it was an essay in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, "The Land Ethic," in which Leopold explicitly claimed that the roots of the ecological crisis were philosophical (Davis 73). ... The Sierra Club defends the environment and upholds a global environmental ethic on many issues; such as global warming, air pollution, water pollution, cleaner energy, land population, and human rights. ... In July of 1970, the White House and Congress worked together to...

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The government's influence surrounded the issue of railroad land grants. ... Document D is a data presentation of the mass amounts of land granted to the railroad companies by the government, totaling 131.5 million acres. ... If you plan to lean the economy alone, you must leave both the good and bad to do what it can, as monopolies would pertain to. ...

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Firstly, the scarcity of land in Singapore makes it a very precious asset and the use of land is carefully planned by the government. This has resulted in high land prices and property prices have increased as well due to the high land prices incurred by property developers when developing a property. ...

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According to Plato's Crito, "Whatever the popular view is, and whether the alternative is pleasanter than the present one or even harder to bear, the fact remains that to do wrong is in every sense bad and dishonorable for the person who does it"(911). ... A common law can vary from state to state but one constitution rules the land, so when the case comes with the right to privacy under the common law against the freedom of speech that is protected under the First Amendment, the latter one wins. ...

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Book I terminates with a passage on property, in which Rousseau lays down rules and guidelines that label an individual as a shareholder (of some form of property, specifically, land). ... By strict enforcement of the guidelines that will allow land occupancy by an individual and/or individuals grouped together, even in cases where they divide the land amongst themselves, the sovereign holds precedence over the rights of its people. The sovereign is the real owner of the land, just as it is the equal and undivided voice of its citizens. ...

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Book I terminates with a passage on property, in which Rousseau lays down rules and guidelines that label an individual as a shareholder (of some form of property, specifically, land). ... By strict enforcement of the guidelines that will allow land occupancy by an individual and/or individuals grouped together, even in cases where they divide the land amongst themselves, the sovereign holds precedence over the rights of its people. The sovereign is the real owner of the land, just as it is the equal and undivided voice of its citizens. ...

• Word Count: 7114
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate