A close examination of Canadian law suggests that there are some laws which are in sync with social customs and other laws which are not and are apart from the social consensus. ... The Government had banned many customs of the Aboriginals because they where not congruent with the Canadian societies customs. Some things banned where Potlatches and marijuana due to the fact that the Canadian Government wanted to spread their values and assimilate the Native people. ... Pornography has many who appose it and what it stands for, yet it is deemed legal by our Government. It is viewed by many, ...

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There are even laws in place that help stave off the opportunity of fraud, however, only the individual can control their integrity and ethics. ... To help combat armed robbery crimes, the community leaders, along with local government agencies should partner together and provide more funding than what is already being provided. ... A suggestion to aid in this area would be to employ sociologists and psychologists alongside criminologists and law enforcement. Many law enforcement agencies rely on "old school" detective work to try to solve these types of cases. ... These should all c...

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Finally they would find out how much it is costing government to enforce Canada's pot laws is estimated at 300 million dollars, with only 20,000 people arrested on marijuana possession charges each year. ... Taxes from the legalized selling of marijuana could be used to help those who have problems with more seriously harmful drugs also the money that the government spends on enforcing the marijuana laws could be used in the same way. ... Governments fund would no longer be spent on anti-marijuana ad campaigns and testing programs. ... (www.drug-statistics.com) the government has alr...

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The challenge facing the government which assumed power in October 1999 as to put the economy back to its pre 1990 track. ... Accordingly, at the request of the Caretaker Government, the SBP prepared in August 1993 a confidential paper containing proposals to give autonomy to it and to separate monetary policy from fiscal policy of the government. ... Notwithstanding the bureaucratic inertia, it was decided by the Caretaker Government to go ahead with the proposed reforms. ... The SBP was aware that the Caretaker Government was there only for three months, that there was a reluctance on the p...

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(Beneria 12) This includes what Beneria calls the Washington Consensus or the idea held by the American and British government that free trade is the single solution for all economic issues. ... However, these women took up leadership within the soup kitchens and learned new skills in regards to management, working with government officials, and Non Government Organizations (NGOs). ... In my own experience in the Philippines I found that the government was run by those who were also in control of the local economy and thus the government will make ridiculous rules against foreign multi-nati...

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Georges Lefebvre who was a professor whose prime interest was in the social history, stated: "the Revolution of 1789 restored the harmony between fact and law.""... The abolishment of the feudal governmental system was the acknowledgement of the need to conciliate the peasantry. ... The laws are the same for all French people as legislated by a freely elected assembly and enforced by an independent court system. ... Many of the middle class were jealous of the privileges of the aristocrats, also about the fact that they had no say in the government. ... The French Revolution produced a soci...

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Although public policies are based on the law, these groups (not legislators), are charged with the responsibility of creating them and propelling them into action. ... Public policy follows a series of steps before the government addresses it. ... After the problem is recognized, the government sets an agenda on how to solve it. ... Adoption of a policy occurs when Congress passes it into law. ... Democratic Party is more liberal and it believes that the government should make laws that represent interests of the people. ...

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Of his most famous writings, Locke's Two Treatises of Civil Government gives us a theory of natural law and natural rights which he used to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate civil governments, and to argue for the legitimacy of revolt against tyrannical governments. Locke equated "the law of nature" with "the rule of morals." ... In so-called civil societies consisting of natural laws, however, we can easily forget that democratic principles are often embraced to effectively function as a community. ... The answer, he concluded, was in the commitment of Americans to the i...

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This strength held over to include community laws and customs. Puritans believed that the Bible was God's true law, and that it provided a plan for living, he was to motivate all of their actions Politically, they sought to create their own governmental system, puritans wanted government power. ... Gradually these small town communities joined together to form a larger governmental unit for the colony as a whole. ...

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Comte believed a positivist society with a religion of humanity led my high priest was the only way to achieve both order and progress whereas Spencer believed in a liberal political system where there was a limited role played by the government and maximums liberties for the people so long as those liberties did not infringe on anothers liberties (which is where the government would come into play). ... Comte's Law of Three Stages is his most important law and it suggests that society goes through three stages, the Theological Stage, the Metaphysical Stage, and the Positivist Stage. ... ...

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"Civil Disobedience" argues against the legitimacy of government and laws, and is Thoreau's most famous (and radical) essay. ... In "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau lashes out against the existence of government. "That government is best which governs not at all," he says (Thoreau, qtd. in Parker and Krupat 1792). ... He denounces the laws which governments impose, questioning their legitimacy. ... Thoreau also emphasizes the right of revolution against inefficient or tyrannical government, further explaining how the government itself, in all cases, makes matters worse. ...

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Yet since computer technology is so new it has really no laws to govern it. A law is formal norms that are enforced, norms being established rules of behavior. ... So as a hacker destroys either government files or the files on your personal computer, the other institutions are affected. ... The other institutions are effected also but not as drastically as the economy and the government. ... Luckily, the government is making an effort to control the Internet. ...

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This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. ... Along with advances in science and technology, philosophers began to see the world as governed by natural laws such as gravity and motion. ... I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. ... Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? ... Legitimate rule was stressed in the principal that once a governm...

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The Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts immediately set up a government and society where discipline, respect, community, and God were the way of society. The Puritans loved tranquility and modesty, and the only way to have this stability in their society was to have laws. The Puritans created laws of every kind but all of the laws had a common parent, the Bible. Every law and restriction of Salem was the offspring of the Bible because the Puritans believed that God should rule the community and if everyone followed God's rules the community would be stable. ...

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Let's face it in theory all laws work it is the practical application that is difficult. There is no protection against another's personal belief, and people manage the medical and government communities. ... I am suspect of anyone who desires to be a single parent, couple with the extra pressures that the religious communities, government and the general populace -- you have a recipe for disaster. ... Yes, there are laws to ensure against premeditative violence against homosexuals, but that has not deterred the violence nor the fear of reporting such violence. ... The Vatican&#x...

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A certain amount of crime is in fact good for society, reinforcing the bonds between the general law abiding public. ... He recognizes crime as being important to the well-being of society and proposes that challenges to established moral and legal laws (deviance and crime, respectively) act to bring together those that were not in opposition to the laws. ... The existence of laws and the strength of the laws are upheld by members of a society when violations are recognized, discussed, and dealt with either by legal punishment (jail, fines, execution) or by social punishment (shame, exile). ...

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Many of the decisions that a government makes involve money. ... A nation's economic philosophy influences many aspects of national life, including the form of government. ... Government kept a strict "hands-off" attitude. ... Except for restrictions on free enterprise and property rights, socialist governments also safeguard personal freedoms. ... A state whose government devotes a very large proportion of its activities and expenditures to the direct provision of personal benefits to be consumed by qualifying individuals or families (as contrasted with such more traditional and le...

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However, the total amount disbursed to the government of Pakistan was 1257 million dollars2. ... To deal with these problems efficient enforcement of law and order is required, however, due to the lack of legislative and executive activity law and order situation is not improved. ... The non-governmental organization by their very nature sometimes operate in a manner which is not contrary to the policies of the government; this creates more problems because now the authorities have to deal with another problem relying on the limited funds. ... However, only time can cure such problems ...

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Recently newspaper reports indicate that gender violence in Bangladesh is on the increase.1 a phenomena which has brought forth preventive legislative measures from the government, as well as growing concern from the general public. ... The problem of overpopulation, and hence the necessity to control it, has been given top consideration by the government of Bangladesh, as an issue which is integrally related to the development-process. ... Compliance to such strategies thus received top consideration in the second Five Year Plan of the Bangladesh government which favoured greater participatio...

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Because of the lack of government control, the capitalist upper class ran the government, pursuing their interests while hardly being taxed. ... The government did not intervene within society's role to manage itself, especially economically. This changed after the Great Depression, as the people looked to the government for new ways to stimulate the economy. ... Such legislation allowed unions to exist, provided fair labor laws for working-class Americans, and provided financial assistance to unemployed. ... These laws allowed the American working class to bridge the ...

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Thoughts of social equity joined with government by accord and pride in flexibility frame the European Idea. ... It is contradicted to the thought of government by one man or as today in the USA of government by a world class. ... Europeans have known degenerate and tyrannical government however they have a place somewhere else. ... After World War II, the needle of time moved westbound, to the USA, the considerable vote based system, one once accepted, in light of the standard of law. ... Today Europeans are cutting social projects as no tyrant, conservative Mexican government could ever do. ...

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Theory is a systematic explanation for the observed facts and laws that are related to particular aspects of life. ... Therefore one who violates law deserves to be punished. ... In a complex society where rules and laws become increasingly abundant, behaving appropriately, become difficult. ... Thus individuals violate law resulting from their contact with other criminals during their interaction with each other. ... But no authentic and comprehensive research has so far been made about the problem at the government and non-government level. ...

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To him, the individual was the most important element of society, even coming before government. In his "Two Treatises of Government," Locke argued that an individual, with the assistance of other individuals, chose for themselves the government that they felt best suited, and that government ironically instead of accepting allegiance from the people, owed it to them instead. Government was a tool designed by individuals to protect the natural rights of an individual. ... First of all, he attacked the government too, just as Locke, but he attacked it from an economic perspective. ... Smith dev...

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Desjardins and McCall also point out the political implications of a society in which government does not interfere except to prevent fraud, coercion, or deception. ... Even government agencies involved in promoting economic growth would be rejected if we accept Friedman's arguments. ... Would a company manager who subscribed to Friedman's extreme libertarian views assume the responsibility to stop the discharge if no laws were being broken? ... Desjardins and McCall make a further, important point: [16] Thus managers, even in Friedman's view, must involve their personal m...

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However, he does believe that if humans become aware of his own social action and become face to face with man as laws of nature foreign to and domination him, will then he gain a full understanding, and master his own nature. Engels believes the role of the government, like Marx is the vehicle that will drive a society into Socialism. However, once the government plays its role, and then it will eventually disappear, because there will be no need for a state anymore. Unlike anarchism who believes there should be no government ever, Marx and Engels believes that it will be what guides us ...

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