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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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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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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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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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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One is when he says that even though the laws are unjust, you must follow them. ... He should have still kept trying to show that the ruling was unjust and that he was right. It has been proven in the United States that one can fight against an unjust ruling or an unjust law; like the Black Civil Rights Movement, and Women's Rights. By allowing the unjust ruling to go through, Socrates allowed the city to be able to wrong another person when the situation rises again. ... Socrates sentence to death was unjust. ...

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Sometimes breaking unjust laws to be treated equally isn't wrong to do. ... Through his reading he shows that the government is very unjust with its laws and people. He says "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" ... It's true there are laws that are just un-understandable for the government to have. ... King also saw unjust laws that the government wanted to strongly enforce on its decisions to granting equal civil justice to everyone in Birmingham. ...

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For this reason, Emerson and Thoreau argue that solitude and society are the most focused topic in their works because of Solitude's ability to give you more freedom instead of living under the rights of unjust laws and Society exploiting you to opportunities with education and grammar. Thoreau argues that living in solitude gives you more freedom instead of living under rights of unjust laws. ... So why live according to laws set by the government. Thoreau says, "Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have suc...

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In 1903, Joseph Lochner, the owner of a bakery, was accused of violating this law and then he appealed to the Supreme Court. Finally, the Supreme Court invalidated the law because it was unconstitutional. ... The issue in the Muller case is more about gender, not the workers, which makes the Muller verdict unjust. ... The law deprived women of their natural rights that everyone has unalienable rights of Life, Liberty and Property. ... Preventing women from participating in the political stage causes the process of making the decision in the Muller case unjust and unfair. ...

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Socrates believes that any person who would disobey these laws creates a deliberate attempt to weaken the laws, as well as the society that imposed them. ... In his essay "Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau writes, "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" ... The purpose of civil disobedience, in other words, is to call attention to an unjust law, and crusade until it could be amended. ... Furthermore, people who participate in acts of civil disobedience who are ...

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During that time he wrote a letter justifying the breaking of some laws. Martian Luther felt there were two types of laws, the just and the unjust. A just law is a man-made code that agrees with morality or God's law and uplifts human personality, an unjust law is out of harmony with moral law and degrades human personality. ...

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If people obeyed all laws, they would tend to do unjust things. ... Politicians are supposed to act according to just laws, but more often than not, they tend to take the law in their own hands. ... Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience also accuses the government of being unjust. ... The tax collector needs to stop serving the unjust government. ... Socrates is clearly criticizing politicians of being unjust. ...

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He contends that people's first obligation is to do what they believe is right and not to follow the law given by the majority. When a government is unfair, people should refuse to follow the law and put themselves away from the government. ... Thoreau further argued that the United States fits his criteria for an unjust government, given its support of slavery and its practice of aggressive war. ... He presented his own experiences as a model for how to relate to an unjust government. ...

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I believe that some government is needed to legislate laws protection wildlife and laws for the prevention of homicides, but who has the duty to say how right things such as gay marriages, drug use, the age at which one can drink and purchase alcohol is? ... "It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right"(CD 36). ... Thoreau's "Declaration of the Independence for the Conscious," reflects his belief in using nonviolent but complete resistance to an unjust government, influenced many people and inspires many more. One should never recognize any political i...

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Socially Constituted and Socially Defined Law An argument against the idea of Natural Law The idea of natural law has been long debated in the subject of jurisprudence. ... The sovereign is that person who decides right from wrong, and just from unjust. ... There is no such thing as natural law because the sovereign makes the laws. ... If it is this kind of procedure that makes a law, then natural law is not law at all. Natural law theorists will argue that God enforces the natural law. ...

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Book VI: how democracies and oligarchies are to be established ". . . we will perhaps grasp better . . . how each political system should be organized so as to be best; and what habits and laws it should follow." ... Third argument: (1) Nature does nothing pointlessly. (2) A human being is the only animal with rational discourse, logon. (3) Rational discourse is for making clear what is expedient or harmful, and hence what is just or unjust. (4) It is community in good and evil, and just and unjust, that produces a household and a city. (5) Therefore, a human being is by nature a political a...

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The first amendment states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech... Putting lives in jeopardy is indeed a serious matter and for public interest, is unjust. ... Generally, it was unjust to publish "The Pentagon Papers", and it was certainly correct to attempt and punish the publisher of these confidential articles, Daniel Ellsberg....

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Glaucon's brother, Adeimantus, backs up his brother's speech by stating that an unjust man with a deceivably just reputation(which is almost always the trait of the perfectly unjust man) is also better than the just man. ... Therefore, if the following is considered true, then unjust men leads to more unjust men, and then what would happen if unjust men ruled the world. ... So therefore in the end, unjust men would lose. ... Unjust men, on the other hand, appreciate neither just men nor other unjust men. ... Real philosophers, however, find that it is in their best interest to gove...

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States and common laws exist due to an agreement among those who are relatively weak. ... For him, the strong individual has no obligation to uphold the law of the community, and he will grant that if justice is good at all, it is only good instrumentally, as a means to something else. ... In direct contrast, we have an unjust man who appears just. ... Socrates must show that the second man (the unjust man who appears just) does not live well and that the first man (the just man who appears unjust) does live well. ... Socrates himself is exactly such a man: one who is just, but appears unjust....

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The law of nature thus ties into the property premise and leads to an ultimate conclusion that slavery should not exist. ... This basically sums up Locke's law of nature. ... There must be promotion of the common good, secure property, establishment of a standing law, indifferent judges, and an impartial execution of the law. ... Locke believes that monarchy is a type of slavery and violates the law of nature that then makes it totally illegitimate. ... They rebel when there are many wrongs and many unjust laws. ...

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Mr. Mill is probably the most influential liberal writer and speaker of the 19th century. Throughout his life, he tried to persuade the British public of the necessity of a scientific approach to understanding social, political and economic change. In his book On Liberty, he tacked the opinion pre...

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The primary concern of the crime control perspective is to protect the society and maintain law and order. It enforces the laws as outlined in the constitution. In exercising the various crime control procedures, the law enforcers are also expected to obey the rule of law. ... If he is found guilty, the law allows the law enforcers to issue the convict a penalty as stated by the law depending on the magnitude and nature of the crime committed. ... This therefore means that something is just or unjust depends on whether advantages and disadvantages are distributed appropriately in society well...

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Thrasymachus tries to find the definition of justice by the laws of the city. ... Obviously the many attempts of humans to make laws that somehow embody justice may not always hit the mark. Justice should be ideally guiding the city laws, but the notion of justice sought out by Socrates is prior to any city laws. ... City laws were what invented the term justice. ... Socrates makes the point that just people can live happy lives while the unjust cannot. ...

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Man is both a social and political animal in that we are inclined to live in society as well as attempt to perceive what is just and unjust and, act accordingly as "men do in fact aim at what they think good." The base level activity that, perhaps best shows man to be a political animal is moral consideration; "humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust" . ... The gift of speech enabling men to indicate "what is just and what is unjust" coupled with the inclination towards dialogue of such a nature is, perhaps the basis of the state. ... Social collaboration is a precondi...

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