The Declaration of Independence states: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all are created equal, that they are endowed..with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". ... Even these two studies bring up questions in liberty, and equality amongst citizens. Also, modern laws fail to support what the Declaration of Independence grants its citizens, which is the state of being free within a society from restrictions imposed by authority like the government. ...

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The famous excerpt from Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson sets a good direction for the standards all humans should endorse, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"(878). ... Since they are depriving others of their natural rights, they are violating the principle from the Declaration of Independence, which describes that all men should enjoy natural rights. ... The question of whether and under what circumstanc...

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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". ... "In most cities, police are breaking down doors without search warrants, stopping and searching anyone they choose on the sidewalk or street, harassing and arresting young people for wearing "gang colors" or for "drug loitering," threatening and abusing anyone who questions them, and refusing to supply their badge numbers upon request" (Dority, 178). ...

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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. ... "Periodical appointments, however regulated, or by whomsoever made, would, in some way or other, be fatal to their necessary independence. ... "The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent" (Schenck vs. ...

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This should be regarded as necessary reading for answering the Questions on Locke and Burke. ... 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...

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Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. Machiavelli argued against this Platonic philosophy. He believed in "virtu", whatever was best for the State was virtu. ...

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