Within the first section of the 14th amendment, it states "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" Marriage being a privilege in itself applies to this. ... Following the first line, of the first section of the 14th amendment, it states, "; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" Liberty meaning freedom from society's oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. ... Lastly...

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Second, a person's normative values include "the sense of what is right or appropriate (475)" to that individual. ... Internalized obligations are two-fold; first is personal morality and second is legitimacy. Personal morality has to do with a person's compliance to laws due to the knowledge of right and wrong. ... First of all, it found that legitimacy does influence compliance to laws. ...

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Second, a person's normative values include "the sense of what is right or appropriate (475)" to that individual. ... Internalized obligations are two-fold; first is personal morality and second is legitimacy. Personal morality has to do with a person's compliance to laws due to the knowledge of right and wrong. ... First of all, it found that legitimacy does influence compliance to laws. ...

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Through the colonial experience, the first house of the burgesses was founded in VA because like the English, colonist also wants a leader that would guide them over time. The May Flower Compact was first signed by the Pilgrim when they came to America for their own religious freedom. Later the May Flower Compact was believed to be the first article of self-government. ... John Locke was the person who made it happen when he said that every person has rights before they were given birth and those are called the natural rights which separate in to three categories of life; liberty; and property...

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The question of whether or not any one person has the capacity, legally or otherwise to take one's own life is one of the most debated and fundamentally thought provoking in society's history. ... Is physician-assisted suicide a legal and moral act in which any given person, in any specific situation should be able to partake in? ... The first argument for those in favor of phyisican-assisted suicide is that of equal protection. ... Person's who wish to kill themselves will take any and all steps necessary to do so, stopping them is difficult if not impossible. A suicid...

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Judges jobs are to make decisions based on what they hear in court, but just like all people judges also have bad days meaning that one day one person may receive 15 years with the possibility of parole for armed robbery and the next day another person may receive 25 years without the possibility of parole. ... For instance, a woman could have killed a man in self-defense but was unable to prove that in court and was found guilty of murder in the first degree even though it wasn't or better yet she could not prove it wasn't and another woman could have planned to kill her boyfriend...

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Under the rights for United States citizens stated in the First Amendment of the Constitution, Americans are guaranteed the right to free speech. ... If the free speech threatened to physically kill a specific person, that person would be in danger, and therefore the rights and liberty of that individual are at risk due to the speech of another person. Simply put, individual's free speech should not interfere with another person's free speech, rights or life in general, because that would be deeming one person's free speech more important than another's. ... Mill also w...

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In lay terms it states that any person in this country who is accused of a crime, due process guarantees them the right to a fair trial where the accused can meet his/her accusers in a court of law where the accused will receive an unbiased trial by their peers in order to prove their innocence. A summons or complaint, which begins a civil lawsuit, or other means by which a court exercises jurisdiction over a person or thing or compels a person to appear and respond to a pleading. ... The first is Substantive Due Process. Substantive Due Process is concerned with limitations on the power or a...

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That very fact made him known as the smartest man alive as stated by the oracle at Delphi was that because Socrates knew that he knew nothing, and other people knew nothing and thought they knew everything; this made Socrates the smartest person alive because in fact he was correct about not knowing anything. ... Socrates would ask a question to a person, and he would appear to get excited when the person thought they knew the answer, but when the person would state the answer Socrates would point out the flaws in the person's arguments and make the person appear to be ignorant so theref...

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Sterba goes on to discuss how the Hopwood court was right in arguing that we shouldn't think that a person's race, or sex, controls his or her points of view. ... In support of the first injustice Christopher Morris argues that affirmative action is not required by the existence of unjust institutions in the distant past, such as slavery, because compensation is dude only to those who suffered the injustice. ... Carl Cohen says that, "compensatory affirmative action, if undertaken at all, must be undertaken for every person who qualifies on some reasonably objective standard, a st...

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Moreover nicotine presents a high degree of toxicity and was first used as an insecticide in the 18th century. ... This occurred in normal persons as well as in those with glaucoma, a disease of the eye in which increased intraocular pressure may cause blindness. ... It is a lot easier to tell a curious person to wait until they are 18 to smoke marijuana then it is to tell them that they can never do it because it is against the law, because a curious person is going to want to do it anyways. ...

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The novel 'Wild Cat Falling' deals with journey because throughout the novel the first person or narrator experiences and deals many issues in his life, which is the journey. ... Religion is first mentioned in prison, where Jeff, full of guilt and remorse, tries to convert other prisoners to Catholicism. ... In the first chapter we see the boy going out hunting with aboriginal children, forbidden to identify his heritage. ...

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This was my first introduction to marijuana. ... Dating back to the 1600's, colonists in Virginia planted the first hemp crop and were subsequently ordered by the King of England to engage in wide scale farming of the plant. ... Marijuana first became used as a drug in the 20's & 30's mainly by Mexican-American immigrant workers and African-American jazz musicians. ... The person who will sell you marijuana in a dark alleyway usually is the same person that could introduce you to harder and more dangerous drugs such as cocaine, extacy or heroin. ... Nicotine is a...

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It was first introduced into England to replace the old system of trial by physical ordeal. ... The jury system is moreover very disruptive socially and economically because it requires a person to put their personal and working lives on hold to serve as a juror. ... The range of alternatives which have been presented include trial by judge alone; trial by a panel of judges; trial by a judge and lay assessors or trial by a judge and a panel of laypeople assisted by people who are qualified as experts in a field which is at issue in the trial In Europe defendants are tried by a judge and as...

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His study concluded that depending upon the person and situation most people will inflict pain on others when they know they will not be held morally or legally accountable, especially if they have something to gain or lose. ... States in her thesis, that Americans particularly living in western societies tend to claim their individuality vigorously, yet often are the first group of people to follow a common crowd. ...

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Democrats The first two political parties in America are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Several political parties were formed under these two first political parties. ... The republicans believe that the money a person earns is for him or her to keep. ... Democrats established the belief that a government has a right to use the citizens' money as it sees fit, to redistribute wealth, and to give back to the citizens only the portion of a person's money that is politically expedient. ...

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First and foremost let me say this: they are a few web sites that help paralegals in their everyday operations. ... A paralegal shall notify the proper authorities of any non confidential knowledge of any dishonest or fraudulent act (s) that is in direct violation of the Model Code / Model Rules and/or laws governing the jurisdiction in which the paralegal practices not limited to by any person pertaining to the mishandling of funds, securities or other assests of a client (customer). ... A paralegal shall support efforts to improve the legal system, assist in making changes, be sensiti...

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All citizens who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote and stand for election, regardless of ethnic status, race, sex, occupation, family background, religious belief, education, property status or length of residence, except persons deprived of political rights according to law. ... The Higher People's Courts: A higher people's court deals with cases of the first instance assigned by laws and decrees, cases of the first instance transferred from people's courts at the next lower level, cases of appeals and of protests lodged against judgments and orders of people&...

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According to Plato's Crito, "Whatever the popular view is, and whether the alternative is pleasanter than the present one or even harder to bear, the fact remains that to do wrong is in every sense bad and dishonorable for the person who does it"(911). ... A common law can vary from state to state but one constitution rules the land, so when the case comes with the right to privacy under the common law against the freedom of speech that is protected under the First Amendment, the latter one wins. ...

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