Parliamentary taxation, restriction of civil liberties, and British military measures were important factors in prompting Americans to rebel in 1776, as seen in the Stamp Act of 1765, the admiralty courts, and in the Quartering Act of 1765. ... The British military measures such as the Quartering Act of 1765 was an important factor that prompted the colonists to rebel in 1776. ... (p.144) Thus, British military measures including the Quartering Act of 1765 was an important factor that prompted the colonists to rebel in 1776. Parliamentary taxation, restriction of civil liberties, and Brit...

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The CRC, like International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention (No. 138), provides that sanctions should be taken up to ensure the effective enforcement of the measures it provides. ... This is why Convention No. 138 provided in Article 9 that "all necessary measures, including the provision of appropriate penalties" should be taken to ensure the effective enforcement of the Convention. Among these measures, particular mention is made of the reinforcement of labour inspection services, for example by especially training inspectors to detect and deal with abuse with regards to child labour. ...

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The new measures add legal, financial, and psychological aspects that make it even more difficult for women and doctors. ... A federal judge said those measures are "likely unconstitutional," and temporarily blocked the new law (Hanna)....

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This proves that it is indeed very difficult to measure the extent of discrimination at work places easily and directly. Fortunately, the method of field experiment give the researchers, the chance to measure the extent of discrimination through direct means. ...

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Employers, on the other hand, argue that the need to monitor employee e-mail communications is imperative in order to investigate employees work related activities and prevent theft, insider trading or other illegal conduct, as well as to measure productivity, efficiency and quality control. ... There are measures which employers should take to avoid or minimize future battles with employees regarding employer monitoring. ...

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Resources such as money and ability to enact and enforce certain public health measures, are needed in part because tobacco companies normally put the country in question through enormous legal trouble in order to protect their brand's business. ... Australia has been a major success story in being able to enact and enforce certain public health measures in order for their citizens to have the opportunity to be educated and live a life of leisure unaffected by the dangers of smoking cigarettes. ...

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The platform states that, "the supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice," then goes on to promise effective legislation looking into the prevention of industrial accidents, occupational diseases, overwork, involuntary unemployment, and other injurious effects incident to modern industry. ...

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Martin Luther King Junior's appeal to the clergymen's decisions was a concise, and effective statement, which conveys the reasons for, and the process in which civil disobedience can be put in action. In it, he directly but easily puts forth his reasons for his disappointment in rational, and under...

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The doctrine of precedent, or stare decisis, lies at the heart of the English legal system. The doctrine refers to the fact that within the hierarchical structure of the English courts, a decision of a higher court will be binding on a court lower that it in that hierarchy. In general terms this mea...

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His words are: "The like natural inducement hath brought men to know that it is no less their duty to love others than themselves, for seeing those things which are equal, must needs all have one measure; if I cannot but wish to receive good, even as much at every man's hands, as any man can wish unto his own soul, how should I look to have any part of my desire herein satisfied, unless myself be careful to satisfy the like desire, which is undoubtedly in other men weak, being of one and the same nature: to have anything offered them repugnant to this desire must needs, in all respects, ...

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"How long should juveniles remain in institutions?" If, after a disposition hearing, the juvenile court judge finds that the community is inadequate to deal with the special needs of a delinquent youth, he or she may then be referred to the state department of youth services for confinement in...

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Benito Juárez was born to an indigenous family in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, in 1806. In the city of Oaxaca, he lived with his sister who was a servant at the house of Don Antonio Maza. He studied at the Santa Cruz Seminary, the only secondary school in Oaxaca. Jua'rez later studied Law at the In...

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He counters that argument by saying that the nauseous sensations that patients feel are almost impossible to measure in experiments; that what is the far more important than mere test results is whether the patients feel relief when using the substance. ...

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Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage or Violation of Human Rights? The culturally mandated practice of cutting a girl's genitals is no longer a legal practice in Kenya, but is still permissible elsewhere. In Africa, female circumcision has been an integral part of society for centuries. It has ...

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The measure, which was signed on June 9th by Alabama Governor Robert Bentley faced great opposition from the US Justice Department, Hispanics, immigration advocacy organizations, and some churches (All Headline News). ...

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In January an Arizona Democrat lawmaker introduced a new bill to make marijuana legal for recreational use for adults. If the bill submitted December 30 is voted through by legislation, voters in Arizona will be able to vote on the recreational use of marijuana by adults. Arizona is one of twenty-th...

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In the modern Internet Era, information is free, quick and explosive. However, right now, journalism is suffering: cameras smashed; newspapers restricted; publishers closed; journalists punished, threaten, and even killed under order of the government. According to Mapping Digital Media Project's (2...

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According to Part XII of the Convention on the Law of the Sea (articles 192-234), which is entirely dedicated to environmental concerns, the counter-signers have the general responsibility of protecting and preserving the marine environment (article 192) by controlling the pollution of oceans and to accomplish that purpose these countries are required to apply the measures concordant to the convention. ...

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Some police officers have taken extreme measures in regards to implementing the law when it comes to African Americans. Law enforcement is professional, effective, efficient, and often regarded as a model to follow worldwide. Some would hold that a significant factor in the history of this professio...

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Throughout history we have witnessed how people as a community have done their best effort in order to achieve the common well. Great civilization such as the Greek or Roman Empire are an indubitable evidence of it. However, these civilization have also shown in one way or another how people have be...

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"As attention focuses on this issue, gaps are growing between the comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by a bipartisan Senate majority in 2013 and any legislative measures that could conceivably pass the Republican-held House of Representatives today or in the foreseeable future" (Scholars Strategy Network Harvard University).While more immigrants start to meet the requirements and qualify the situation becomes difficult for the government to handle as it threatens the immigration system. ...

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Another major aspect considered of law school applicants is their score on the Law School Aptitude Test - "a half-day standardized test designed to measure the ability to understand and reason with a variety of verbal and quantitative materials" (Neubauer, 125). ...

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School authorities also owe a non-delegable duty of care which is carried out to ensure that the proper measures are taken in a reasonable circumstance, in order to protect a student under their care from any risks of injury that the staff member should have reasonably foreseen. ...

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In the United States one's choice to live according to their beliefs and choices are duly recognized and embraced, but terminally ill patients who wish to choose to die with dignity instead of a painful and prolonged death, oftentimes face enormous challenges to obtain life ending drugs. The right ...

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There is also a focus on the forms of violence directed against women at the societal level and within the family, as well as a description of the laws, policies and measures related to the problem of violence, including criminal legislation, which explicitly discriminates against women (wclac.org). ...

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