The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". ... "In most cities, police are breaking down doors without search warrants, stopping and searching anyone they choose on the sidewalk or street, harassing and arresting young people for wearing "gang colors" or for "drug loitering," threatening and abusing anyone who questions them, and refusing to supply their badge numbers upon request" (Dority, 178). ...

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This should be regarded as necessary reading for answering the Questions on Locke and Burke. ... 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...

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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 a judgment which is now embarrassing, the Supreme Court of Canada discussed whether it had been adequately proven that the duck in question was a wild duck and not a tame duck, and then spent three lines on the issue of treaty rights. ... Technically the Nishga lost, but the court divided equally on the question whether the Nishga had aboriginal title to their traditional territories. ... The question was put at a Mini...

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Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. Machiavelli argued against this Platonic philosophy. He believed in "virtu", whatever was best for the State was virtu. ...

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