Jefferson justified the colony's rebellion in his Declaration of Independence by stating that "when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth... the laws of nature [that] God entitle[s] them..." . ... Ironically, at the start of the revolution Americans only desired to be goverened by traditional English law. ... The colonists exerted seditious behavior, despite protocol which stated that people should remain subservient to their leaders in spite of ...

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It would also prohibit federal civil rights enforcement agencies from seeking or agreeing to administrative or judicial orders prescribing affirmative action to remedy proven instances of discrimination that violate federal law or the constitution. ... Fairness requires ending biased practices, not perpetuating them, and that includes ending the unjust advantages traditionally enjoyed by whites and white men. ... Civil liberties are the personal rights and freedoms that the federal government cannot abridge, either by law, or judicial interpretation. During the civil rights movement, the Supre...

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In 2006, the United Nations recognized this issue by passing a resolution that aimed to "abolish by law, as soon as possible, the death penalty and life imprisonment without possibility of release for those under the age of 18 years at the time of the commission of the offence." (Lamberti, 2015) This law passed, but was ineffective in practice seeing as how the problem still continued. ... From an economic perspective, Daniel Nagin a professor of law calculated the cost of economic values of juvenile incarceration compared to rehabilitation. ... To hold them accountable as an adult w...

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Affirmative action in college admissions should be outlawed because it is an unjust process which ends up promoting further discrimination, and it does not make up for America's past injustices toward minorities. ... In the same court case, it was stated by Michigan Law School's expert that "in 2000, 35 percent of underrepresented minority applicants were admitted. ... If affirmative action is considered constitutional under strict scrutiny, these statistics should not exist in a law-abiding university. ... "Undoubtedly[,] there are other ways to better the education of law students ...

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Capital punishment is defined as the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law ("Capital"), but there is a great debate about how just it is. ... Many feel it is unjust, for three main reasons: it often punishes innocent people, convicts are often subjected to prejudice, and statistics show that the abolishment of the death penalty lowers the crime rate. ... Although the law guarantees everyone the right to an attorney, the quality of attorneys whom the court may appoint is often very poor. ...

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Although affirmative action has opened the doors for minorities in the fields of education and multiple professions, it does so at an unjust and costly price. ... The negative consequences of affirmative action outweigh the benefits it produces, therefore producing an unjust policy. ... The affirmative action policy is "'contrary to our Constitution and laws'- (qtd. in Grapes 41). ...

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Whatever the reason, slavery was now against the law. ... Affirmative Action Laws AA laws prohibit discriminatory practices and bias treatment. AA laws are composed of federal and state statutes that are based upon the Constitution of the US. ... The AA Quota system was designed to redistribute the unjust enrichment of the past. ... In addition, AA laws allowed for minority student's admission in schools that would not have been accessibl...

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Concluding, the methods used for fighting for equality only worked because there were both races involved in the movement, the majority of protests were peaceful, it was undeniable that America's procedures and laws were wrong and unjust this was notified particularly because of the world events at the time and signified the time for change. ...

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On June 8, 1847, British parliament created the Irish Poor Law Extension Act, which dumped the entire cost and responsibility of Famine Relief directly upon Ireland's property owners (LFI). ... Prime Minister Peel pushed through a repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. ... It was, however, the British and English who were at fault for this infamous genocide, due to their unjust laws and selfish acts....

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At UC Berkeley, African Americans made up 6.3% of freshmen in 1995 and 3.4% last fall. " This drop in enrollment of African Americans at California state colleges may be due in part to Proposition 209, passed as a law in 1996, which eliminates affirmative action measures in California in both the workplace and college. ... And gaining entry to America's elite universities is difficult; the perception, right or wrong, that race can in some circumstances trump merit strikes many as unjust, not least because universities play a large role in social mobility. " The main problem with affi...

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The first of several laws to achieve this was the Proclamation of 1763. ... In 1764, Britain passed a law known as the Currency Act, preventing the colonies to print and use their own money. ... This made them very unpopular towards the colonists causing many of them to defy laws. However, the one law that really exasperated the colonists was the Stamp Act of 1765, which taxed all kinds of printed-paper including wills, licenses, newspapers, diplomas and even playing cards. ... They decided that the Stamp Act and all the other taxation laws were illegal since the colonies were not represented...

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Children with disabilities deserve a fighting chance and being denied educational opportunities in a world that already discriminates against them is truly unjust, so additional educational programs and services for disabled children need to be given greater importance. ... Although no federal law was ever enacted, in both cases it was ruled that children with disabilities should have equal access to public education. ... Marcie Lipsitt, an educational advocate, speaks out about these unjust funding cuts, saying, "Sequestration is sending a powerful message to children at risk and with d...

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The initial principal that birthed Affirmative Action as a policy or law of the land, was to create a means by which America could right the wrongs of the impact of 245 years of slavery, as well as the impact that other kinds of discrimination have had on specific groups of American society. ... Throughout the life span of our young country there have been millions of unjust incidences of discrimination, wrong doings and even cases of murder, that were based on the color of one's skin, gender, religion, sexual orientation and other characteristic's of persona. ...

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The well renowned professor of law at Yale, Peter Schuck described affirmative action as "A program in which people who control access to important social resources offer preferential access to those resources for particular groups that they think need special treatment" (Schuck 5.) ... In fact, as we are experiencing today, the government also created discriminating policies in the past, including Jim Crow laws and slavery. ... For a company to be able to only hire from a certain skin color is unjust. ...

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America's view on their justice system is very unclear, "we must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. ... The use of the death penalty dates all the way back 1700 B.C. when Iraq implemented The Code of Hammurabi, which was a legal document that contained the first known death penalty laws. ... The solution to avoid unjust death penalties is the jury. ...

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It is unjust that someone in one state receives the death penalty, but someone who commits an analogous crime in another state they are given a life sentence. ... (Bedau) So ever since the death penalty was re-instated the government has been spending millions upon millions of dollars on unnecessary murders when it could be spending the taxes on improving law enforcement and trying to lower the homicide rate. ... A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ... Our laws should show a complete respect for life no matter if...

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Although discrimination in employment based on sex is prohibited by law nothing was done when it occurred. ... If after a thorough examination of the facts of the effects of an unjust or immoral law, a community failed in negotiation with the majority, King advocated mass direct action to engage public opinion, especially the opinion of the majority. ...

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We as a concerned and caring nation need to combat these unjust labels and help those who need it, not just those who qualify. ... Although Democratic and Liberal governments have been elected in the United States the ideological attraction of the New Right's emphasis on the family, traditional values, and a strong law and order state is still strong. ...

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Better Education: The Controversy Over School Vouchers Education remains America's most influential avenue of opportunity. Most Americans recognize the necessity of an elementary and secondary level of education to succeed within the highly competitive world beyond adolescence. Without a basic foundation of fundamental knowledge, an opportunity to compete against a world of advancing proficiency would leave those lacking such aptitude behind. Like the millions of Americans who recognize education as the one of the nation's priority concerns, George W. Bush, the 43rd president of...

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