Socrates believes that any person who would disobey these laws creates a deliberate attempt to weaken the laws, as well as the society that imposed them. ... In his essay "Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau writes, "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" ... The purpose of civil disobedience, in other words, is to call attention to an unjust law, and crusade until it could be amended. ... Furthermore, people who participate in acts of civil disobedience who are ...

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Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person's race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. ... While these groups of individuals may feel they are being subjected to racism, law enforcement stand to believe it is a simple act of private security. ... Law enforcement agencies have gone through time consuming and expensive litigation over civil rights concerns. ... The policies and practices that are used in racial profiling (such as those on immigrants) have caused destruction on individuals,...

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I believe that some government is needed to legislate laws protection wildlife and laws for the prevention of homicides, but who has the duty to say how right things such as gay marriages, drug use, the age at which one can drink and purchase alcohol is? ... "It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right"(CD 36). ... Thoreau's "Declaration of the Independence for the Conscious," reflects his belief in using nonviolent but complete resistance to an unjust government, influenced many people and inspires many more. One should never recognize any political i...

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"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law," (King, p 1307). A law becomes injustice when a specific group of people were denied voting rights. ... King used logo, a logical appeal, to clarify the, "unjust law codes," that people of color were forced to abide by. ... "Unjust law" indicates the outrageous regulations that many Afri...

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The first amendment states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech... Putting lives in jeopardy is indeed a serious matter and for public interest, is unjust. ... Generally, it was unjust to publish "The Pentagon Papers", and it was certainly correct to attempt and punish the publisher of these confidential articles, Daniel Ellsberg....

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Both authors also argue that everyone has an obligation to act based solely on his/her own will, without regard to societal rules and laws, even going so far as to act in opposition to those laws that are felt to be unjust. Emerson claims that "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ... Rosa Parks was arrested and jailed for violating race laws, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross and left to die. While Thoreau does offer the caveat that you should oppose only those laws that are deemed by you to be unjust, that judgement could not be consiste...

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Such concerns include exactly who should have access to these databases, unjust targeting of criminal relatives to obtain information, and innocent names on the same list as convicted criminals. ... Currently there is no similar federal law on DNA databases regarding time limits in the United States. ... Illinois state law "requires all convicted sex offenders to submit a blood sample if they are sentenced to incarceration or other institutionalized care and to provide such sample as a condition of parole or release" and the samples are kept in a database that "may not be subje...

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As a pre-law major, I am always interested in writing essays that are involved in law or any legal issues. This semester, I am taking a class about the Constitutional Law and Civil Rights. ... Many people are not familiar how Constitutions are interpreted to justify our current laws. ... Based on this definition, many people argue that capital punishment violates the Eighth amendment, because its character consists cruel and unusual in practice and law. ... Kemp, some justice think that capital punishment is unjust because its unfair in race and geography. ...

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Congress was granted limited powers, which left major decisions up in the air; laws could only be passed with the singular vote of each state, to reach the minimum of a seven-state agreement. ... The Legislative branch, or Congress, enacts laws. The Executive branch, led by the President, carries out the laws, negotiates treaties, and commands armed forces. The Judicial branch, consisting of the Supreme Court, interprets the Constitution and enforces the laws. ... This caused states to unjustly rule in their residents' favor. ...

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As illustrated by the party platforms for the election, the general public still had little say in politics, women were still battling sexual oppression, and labor laws and health and safety regulations in the workplace were still atrocious. ... Also mentioned are the issues of child labor, minimum wage , women's labor laws, and the introduction of the "eight-hour wok day." ... Based on the statements included in the Progressive party's 1912 platform regarding public involvement in politics, the oppression of women, and the unjust labor laws in the country, one is left to assume th...

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Acting in protest to what the colonies considered to be unjust laws, the colonists resisted attempts to be taxed, claiming as long as they weren't allowed fair representation in the English Parliament, they would not pay. ... England enacted laws to create trouble with trade between the colonies and other countries. In 1764, the Sugar Act was issued; this law taxed sugar, textiles, and other goods. ... The colonists became infuriated at these new laws stating they were too heavy and were levied without their direct consent. ... Numerous times Congress had tried to regulate trade, bu...

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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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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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This canon provide the guidance to which judges interpret the laws. ... Judges can use their discretion to interpret the laws that already exist, as long as the interpretation does not oppose with the language of the existing law. ... If the state or the federal administration passes a law, then it's called statutory law, which judges are compelled to follow, although when the law it's not clear they can interpret it. However they can interpret a law, judges cannot use their discretion to overruled statutory laws. ... There are other circumstances where the law is fair but the facts ...

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During the late 19th century, local governments passed segregation laws that were known as the Jim Crow laws. ... Severe and unjust laws were created to instil segregation especially within the South. These laws limited the civil liberties of the people that were affected by them mainly African-Americans, these laws also enlisted them to be inferior (Hall,2005). ... This movement practiced the laws of civil disobedience which showed how people were willing to risk any form of danger and even go to jail to overcome this chaotic period of time. ... The formal end of segregation in the USA was se...

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Last December, the U.S. government announced the official closure of the Iraq War and the withdrawal of the last soldiers of the country's imperialist coalition headed by the United States and England, ending an unjust war, illegal and coward whose seems to have other purposes than only restore the country to a fair administration and better conditions to its people. Unjust because it was an imperialist war, a war of plunders whose goal was to take possession of the resources and explore Iraqis; illegal due to the disregard of the most basic principles of international law and sovereignty...

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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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The proposed reauthorization of this act intended to not only ensure the continuation of the previous law, but proposed to expand its protection by promoting state and local efforts to combat rape and domestic violence, protecting women, gays, and Native Americans.1 With on going issues of violence and sexual abuse, Congress felt that these issues needed to be addressed immediately. ... The bill promised to bring Native American women justice in court in by giving tribal courts the authority they need to hold offenders in their community accountable. 5 The 2013 Reauthorization of Violence Aga...

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He refused to be governed by his own laws, forced extreme taxation upon the colonists, cut off their trade, and above all declared war on them. ... In the declaration of independence, the wrongs done by the king fall more into the category of lawfully unjust while those of the institute of men fall in the morally wrong division. ...

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The hardest obstacle for adoption agencies is finding potential parents who are willing and able to adopt, yet unjust legal restrictions keep many children from having two loving parents by denying gay couples the right to adopt. ... There are many gay couples who wish with all their heart to be able to adopt a child but unfortunately, are not able to due to the law prohibiting it and other impediments from cultural and religious institutions. ... Rachel Stewart Johnson states: "A 1977 law in Florida that stood for more than 30 years expressly forbade any homosexual person from adopting a chil...

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Therefore there should be no law banning the marriage of people of the same sexual orientation that love and care about one another. ... The possibility of an amendment in our laws to permit homosexual couples to wed has at times affected people to agonize and to panic the unfamiliar. The same baseless concern occurred when several people struggled to overturn the laws barring marriage among people of different ethnicities in the 1950's and in the 1960's. ... According to Drake Law Review [marriage provides economic benefits for married couples and their families in many direct and...

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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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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ... Indeed, much of the international law governing the jurisdiction of states is premised upon it. ... While classical international law restricts the rights of states to act within the territory...

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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ... Indeed, much of the international law governing the jurisdiction of states is premised upon it. ... While classical international law restricts the rights of states to act within the territory...

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