Through this court system, criminal law is interpreted by a jury who are seen as expressing the opinion and sense of the ordinary man and woman in society. ... In Australia the jury is made up of 12 people, however the amount of people in a jury can vary depending on which sate or country the trial is taking place in, eg in the United States of America criminal cases are tried by six member juries. ... The use of the jury therefore keeps the criminal justice system on level with the standards of ordinary, everyday people this also ensures that the support of the community behind the legal ju...

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People jumped to conclusions and had predetermined thoughts because the jailers involved were city employees and taxpayers paid their salaries. ... The initial conclusion to this scenario is the feelings that as a fellow employee of a law enforcement field I have seen and heard many police officers and people in authoritative positions feel that they can get away with more than the ordinary citizen. ... People and incidents like this contribute to giving the law enforcement a bad reputation....

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SEPARATION OF POWER The principle of separation of power proposes that in order to ensure good governance, executive, legislative and judicial powers should be exercised by different individuals or different groups of people. ... - He has power to summon the legislature to convene extra-ordinary sessions... Through the force of the Rule of Law, he, the President, can be summoned, like any ordinary citizen, to appear before an appropriate court of law. ...

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A lot of people object to legalizing marijuana but their reasons are not all that logical most of the time. ... Only 8 people were allowed to be prescribed marijuana medically to treat an illness, disorder, or disease. ... Over 21,006,000 used it in the last year and over 12,122,000 people used it in the last month. ... With all these people smoking marijuana, how can the government allow more and more people to get fined or go to jail for using a harmless drug. ... It doesn't change who you are or make you do drastic things out of the ordinary like some other drugs can. ...

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People are scared of change and of things that are not traditionally ordinary. People cannot help whom they fall in love with and it is not fair to deny people, who fall in love with their same sex, the choice to marry. ... This is a right given to people who marry the opposite sex and should also be given to people who marry the same sex. ... The reason people deny a marriage to people of the same sex is fear of something that is socially unacceptable to them. ... The constitution protects people's rights. ...

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The ordinary courts, on the lower level, (Small Claims Court, Magistrates Courts) deal with day-to-day disputes between citizens and between citizens and the state. ... The Constitution makes it possible for a wide range of people to raise questions in litigation before the High Court. ...

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During the history, people obey to leaders, kings, dictators. ... Civil disobedience is generally regarded as more morally acceptable than both ordinary offences and other type of protest such as militant action or coercive violence. ... When people come together to protest the group includes some provocative people. These people can provocate others to damage the environment, loot public and people' s property. ... For example, In Gezi park movement, similar problems occur between people who different idea about this protest and people were decomposed from each other. ...

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In 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act was passed, it forced law enforcement and ordinary citizens with severe fines if they failed to assist in the capture of runaway slaves when the suspicion could be based only on written claims. ... In 1857, the ruling in the Dred Scott case, the court ruled that black people could be property, not citizens. ... Police have been given the power to stop people of different ethnic groups, as long as they have a "hunch". ... Racial profiling against African Americans has been an ongoing battle for this group of people longer than most people may know. ...

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Many people are not familiar how Constitutions are interpreted to justify our current laws. Moreover, many people don't know Constitution played an important role of shaping moral values in our society. ... But not until the civil right movement era, people started raise up the question that whether death penalty is against the Eighth Amendment or not. ... The definition of "unusual is "not common or not ordinary". ... Another issue is the execution of minors and mentally retarded people. ...

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Hammurabi proposed the law so that its purpose was "to promote the welfare of the people" (Carriedo 7). ... However the code did possess ideas that would have been considered out of the ordinary at the time, to include rights for woman and the oppressed. ... People could receive compensation or have their stolen or damaged properties replaced (Halsall). ... Charlemagne would evangelize Christianity with the penalty of death for people or villages that would not convert. ... Charlemagne's Capitulary for the Saxons did not have the best interest of the Saxony people in mind, rathe...

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