Complaints and agitation by the plebes, the common people, led to the reduction to writing of the existing legal customs and the addition of new principles unknown in the customary law. ... Through his good sense, moderation, and conscientious attention to duty, Augustus won the support of all major elements in the Mediterranean world. ...
"Machiavelli's most characteristic, central, and frequently involved concept is that of virtu, a term by no means regularly translatable by "virtue," and certainly not equivalent to virtue in the Christian sense. ... The laws, he says, "make men good"- that is compel them to serve the common good and refrain from barring their fellow citizens, as civil and political life demands. ...
As the common-law evolves and changes we gain deeper understandings of crime, the motivation of crime, and rehabilitation of criminals. ... The apparent similarity in the state of criminal law in these countries and the sharing of common problems is not to be unexpected. ... Punishment and sentencing are conceptually distinct, although punishment has been the most common element of sentencing throughout history. ... In most common-law nations sentencing is a separate process from the finding of guilt or criminal responsibility. ... A more modern approach in the common-law is a restorative j...
In its decision the court acknowledged that common law must recognise the concept of "native title" but the title could be extinguished by a valid act of either the state or federal parliaments expressing a plain and clear intention to do so. ...
In transgressing the law of Nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, which is that measure God has set to the actions of men for their mutual security, and so he becomes dangerous to mankind; the tie which is to secure them from injury and violence being slighted and broken by him, which being a trespass against the whole species, and the peace and safety of it, provided for by the law of Nature, every man upon this score, by the right he hath to preserve mankind in general, may restrain, or where it is necessary, destroy things noxio...
Citizens of good moral sense should vigorously oppose unjust government arrangements through peaceful resistance. ... The second proposal constituting the purpose of joining of natural law moral theory is the condition that principles of morality are in some sense got from, or included by, the nature of the world and the procedure for people. ...
The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". But how much of this is true? Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there has been inequality. Appearance has held such precedence...
In Sheldon v Ramsay in 1852 an Ontario Court held that the Six Nations Indians had no legal rights to their reserve lands, because the common law could not be "part savage and part civilized." In 1921 in Sero v Gault, an Ontario Court quoted the Attorney-General as saying that treaties with the Mohawk made as much sense as treaties "with the Jews in Duke street." ... The idea of Indians going to court to gain recognition of aboriginal and treaty rights obviously made no sense. ...
FACTS Mr Praveen Singh, the accused was charged with three offences. He was charged with two statutory offences and one common law offence. All these offences took place on the night of August 20, 2000. He pleaded guilty with regards to the charges of reckless or negligent driving in contra...
