At the San Francisco Conference of 1945, Zeineddine of Syria described that the concept of sovereign equality of States include the principles that; firstly, the States are juridically equal; that each State enjoys the right inherent in full sovereignty; that the personality of the State is respected, as well as its territorial integrity; and finally that the State should, under international order, comply faithfully with its international duties and obligations.14Furthermore, the principle of sovereign equality of States has also been described as including the elements of juridical equality...

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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". ... The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population, but they comprise about half of all prison inmates and 40% of those sentenced to death. ...

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In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke speculated about how politics must confront the issue "of freedom the will of the individual"(Locke, 43) and how their freedom must be subject to "constant, certain, and known principals"(Locke, 44), so that when conflicts of justifying rights emerge the government will have a guide by which to reference their decision against. ... Hurston was warned about wearing religious tee-shirts in the workplace, while Judeo-Christians were permitted to express Judeo-Christian themes on their clothing"(Hurston v. ...

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Indian-Colonial Relations There are many myths about this early period. ... This early recognition of the independence of the tribes was gradually undermined as European colonial powers gained greater and greater control in North America. ... In the period little was written about Indian issues. ... The case became one reason for the federal decision to negotiate settlements of aboriginal title claims in parts of Canada, a policy announced about six months after the Calder decision. ... But it was clear that Indians were not talking about Canadian law, at least not the law as ...

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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 evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty. 5. ... The state...

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When they perceive as (if they were) isolated individuals, their actions become both selfish and cowardly, for "as soon as each man gets to thinking about his personal danger, he becomes worthless and weak, his virtu vanishes; his actions begin to undermine the community and produce his isolation" Two crucial concepts are thus drawn regarding the citizen: that individual diversity is a necessity within the state, and that there must be an interactive dynamic and collaboration between its citizens. ...

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