After the law was passed, there began to be a rapid spread of states adopting the Three Strikes law. ... To understand the consequences of Three Strike law, it is important to know the purpose for states adopting the law and particulars about Three Strikes law. ... However, when punishments are disproportionately and unjustly severe you get the exact opposite. ... After the law was passed, there began to be a quick spread of states adopting the Three Strikes law. ... Also, the sentencing guidelines for the Three Strikes law are unjustly and disproportionately severe, which is ruining the lives...

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" there are two types of laws: just and unjust. ... Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ... Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."" ... Apathy and half-hearted support in all social cases is just as harmful as creating an unjust law because it decreases morale and adds dead weight to a society. ... An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law." ...

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The Unjust Radical Reconstruction of the South In 1868 Congress passed The Radical Reconstruction Plan. ... Some states even put specific laws in place to insure that the blacks were restricted to the same laws as before their freedom. ... These laws caused the murder of thousands of blacks between 1865 and 1866. ... In conclusion the Radical Reconstruction was an unjust punishment for almost the entire South. The Federal Government did not have the manpower to enforce its own laws. ...

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King also believed that any law that uplifts human personality was just and any law that degrades human personality was unjust. He used this argument to explain why segregation was an unjust law. He states that segregation damages the soul of that one segregated against, thus making it an unjust law. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. claims that the answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws, just and unjust. How can you classify what laws are just and which are unjust? ...

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"Sharia Law is Coming to America,"" is the headline of today's newspaper. ... As law permitted, they crushed his whole arm under a moving truck. ... In particular, the UK has embrace this practice starting this month of March 2014, which means that the demand for this insane unjust law to become authorized is growing like a virus. ... If all 50 states does not ban foreign law, one state will become like the UK. ... Don't lose your freedom; stop Sharia law from coming to America!...

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This makes that hate crime laws in the United States of America are superfluous, unjust, discriminating against victims of other crimes, and in violation of the First Amendment. At first, in the US hate crime laws are superfluous. Every crime that can be committed can already be punished under state laws and local laws. ... Next, hate crime laws are unjust. ... It is just impossible for a judge and a jury to get inside the head of the defendant and decide what his or her motives were, so these hate crime laws are unjust. ...

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Which brings us to the question, what is a just and unjust cause, or even more imperative, what is a just and unjust law? ... Luther speaks of just and unjust laws, more specifically the unjustness of segregation in Birmingham. ... Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ... Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all.""... A law that is set up that says two groups of people must be segregated is an unjust law which makes it no law at all. ...

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Every year new laws get passed that are intrusions on our daily lives. One law, which I strongly disagree with, is the smoking ban. ... A bar owner in New York City Claims that the new law "messed with her bars groove, and business is down forty percent" (Haughney, A.03). ... Not only is this law absurd, its discriminatory based on age. ... Although America is a democracy there are too many laws that restrict what we can and cannot do. ...

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King questions the differences between just and unjust laws to justify his actions in Birmingham and the charges of breaking laws willingly. ... An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ... Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.... Unjust laws are "out of harmony with the moral law. ... He must consider the law as an expression of the group, and be willing to confront that law if he deems it unjust. ...

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He believes that there are two types of laws, just and unjust. ... Augustine with, "An unjust law is no law at all." ... In addition, an unjust law is a law that degrades human personality and is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ... On the contrary, an unjust law is a law that the group that enacts it would not want required on them. Another problem with just and unjust laws would be a law that is inflicted on a group who could not vote on it. ...

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Why, we ask, might Socrates seem eager to accept his unjust punishment, accorded by unjust men, in this the most unjust of situations? ... That in fact he may be as unjust as those who condemn him. ... By relishing the hemlock and accepting his unjustly mandated fate, Socrates would be guilty of aiding and abetting those who acted unjustly, and in so doing, would seemingly be guilty of acting unjustly himself. ... However, by allowing himself to be punished unjustly, Socrates would knowingly do wrong by assisting those who have acted unjustly in his sentencing. ... Because of his unjust be...

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The solution was to undo or change the unjust laws through peaceful protests. ... A key concept King used to describe this is a "law is unjust on its face and unjust in its application." ... King says a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority, when in reality they cannot vote on the law. King says we have a moral responsibility to obey just laws, and a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ... It is not new to see the person who breaks an unjust law so openly idolized as a hero. ...

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The solution was to undo or change the unjust laws through peaceful protests. ... A key concept King used to describe this is a "law is unjust on its face and unjust in its application." ... King says a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority, when in reality they cannot vote on the law. King says we have a moral responsibility to obey just laws, and a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ... It is not new to see the person who breaks an unjust law so openly idolized as a hero. ...

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To me this social law is unjust. ... Another example of unjust laws that exist within our society today deal with minors under the age of 18. ... While everyone is told of how we should live and laws are in affect to protect us, minors have more laws that have to follow, thus making many of them unjust by King's definition and mine. ... These laws can be unjust by King's standard that says "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 was right in fighting to bridge the...

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An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. ... An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ... Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. ... An unjust law is a law that tries to degrade the human personality. ... So how is one to challenge the unjust laws? ...

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Socrates Vs King In the two reading assignments that were assigned each of the characters argue whether breaking the law is just or unjust. ... Socrates being a firm believer in what is just and unjust supports his position that escaping from prison and fleeing in exile to an adjacent city would be unjust because by him doing this would result in breaking the commitments that he has agreed upon by the courts after he was found guilty. ... Martin Luther King Jr. on the other hand, feels that the segregation laws that the black people had to abide by were unjust laws, and the blacks were discr...

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"(20) Thoreau influenced those African Americans to speak their minds about the unjust laws, gaining the governments attention. ... "(320) Thoreau addresses the idea of defying the government when the law is unjust. ... Thoreau's acts of defiance against unjust laws he didn't believe in caused Martin Luther King and his fellow Negro community to do the same. ... Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws A just law is a man-made code that is out of Harmony with the moral law."(5) Like Martin Luther King, Howard Zinn also sided with Thoreau in b...

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King describing two types of laws, just laws and unjust laws. King goes into great detail defining his versions of just and unjust laws. ... Any law that degrades human personality is unjust". ... "Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ... Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all". ...

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Socrates in his old age has been subjected to the Law of Athens. He knows for a fact that the law is unjust in its doing; but, his main quarrel against Crito is that he cannot just escape and disobey the law. ... The peculiarity about the excerpt dealing with law is that the law is personified to this humanly figure. ... Martin Luther King Jr. preached that everything must be done within the law and to the law, but nothing against the law. ... "Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. ...

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Unjust laws and unjust governmental systems are a common theme in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail. In Civil Disobedience Thoreau clarifies that following an unjust law is a violation of ones conscience. Also, if a person is faced with an unjust law they should not only disobey it but also strive to somehow change it. ... King believes, "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws... Thoreau did not believe heavily in using the governmental system to change the laws. ...

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What is Socrates' conception of the relationship between the individual and the State or Laws, as shown in the Crito? ... This brings us to the second aspect of Socrates' conception of the relationship - Athens cannot continue to function without laws, and if Socrates were to disobey the orders of these laws, then he, as a citizen, is therefore implementing the destruction of the laws themselves. ... Socrates sees the Laws and the State as parental figures to the citizens of Athens. ... In this case, Socrates saw great logic and rationalised that indeed it would be unjust for Socrat...

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He however does go on to state that he believes that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. He believes it is very obvious to distinguish the difference in a just and unjust law. ... He first states that " Any law that uplifts human personality is just and any law that degrades human personality is unjust."" He emphasizes that all segregation laws are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages personality. ... These two illustrations of the differences between just and unjust laws are very straightforward and understandable. ...

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Aristotle discussed the notions of "just" and "unjust" and how laws affected them. ... A good citizen was a citizen who was loyal to its government, willing to die for his country, and also a person who abides by the laws, even unjust laws. ... At the same time, the state must be willing to bend a little when citizens feel a law is unjust. ... So what was meant by just and unjust? ... What might have been unjust to some might not have been considered unjust to others. ...

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Socrates and MLK Jr. both dealt with the question, "Is it just to break an unjust law?" ... Neither man used violence in his means of showing his dislike for certain unjust laws and yet both were punished for their actions and beliefs. ... If people are not satisfied with the terms of the law, it is not just and should not be forced upon the public. ... Socrates does not even think he has disobeyed a law in the first place and MLK Jr. consciously disobeys those laws he thinks to be unjust. ... MLK Jr. stresses that if the minority has no part in devising the law, then it is unjust and shou...

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King uses the excuse that his actions were just since he was fighting an unjust law. He defines segregation and unjust laws like this "Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. ... It is the nature of unjust laws that make them prone to be broken. ... He believes that anything done to battle an unjust law is just and must be done. ...

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