He believes that by living in a society and accepting its benefits (such as protection, schools, markets and roads), one must also accept the burdens, and by receiving services from the government, an individual owes service to the government in return. ... The desire to change a law is based upon moral principles, and by acting upon these principles, people can potentially affect their society positively. ... A fundamental characteristic of civil disobedience is the use of non-violent protest against the government. ... Convinced that harming another person was never appropriate, the signer...

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In a democratic society the government is not a single all- powerful authority wielding ultimate decisive power. ... The purpose of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is to guide and shape the interactions of the citizens with the government. ... An example of this was when the elites in government decided it was deaf to the rule of law, when the elites in government imposed its will on parliament through non-electoral methods during WW2 when Japanese-Canadians were put into internment camps. ... The government elites broke their own rules and laws through racially discriminating against the...

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There exist tensions between the motives and procedures of the executive, legislature and judicial bodies of a government, and this is good for the stability and working of the government. ... But still there are some political powers in the government which are exercised by more than one governmental body. ... It is based on the Rule of Law, which contemplates that the government is of law and not of men. It requires law as the basis for government action, and subject government to the constraints of law and without the separation of legislation and execution of laws, the rule of law cannot f...

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Thoreau lived a very unique life and he based his writings on many of his fufullling principles. One of his principles, on the authority of government, I strongly agree with. Thoreau's concept of "Government is best which governs the least"(CD 35). ... After all, it was the United States government that allowed slavery to exist for more than fifty years. And this same government ( our American Government ) fought wars with nations, killing their citizens, purely to gain land for its "just" purposes. ...

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Challenging state power can be done both informally, fluctuating methods of challenging government decisions by persons affected by the decisions and processes, and formally, methods that are more permanent than the informal methods of challenging government decisions. ... The power of the media is based on their ability to provide wide access to information in an extremely fast time. ... Privacy bodies, such as the Privacy Committee of New South Wales, are formed to advise the government about breaches, or potential breaches, of privacy by government bodies. ... The Courts have developed a po...

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In 1969 Pierre Elliot Trudeau's government had regulated the White Paper, a legal document that had forbid negotiations with the Natives in regards to their aspirations and rights by removing their Indian status (Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian policy, 1969, Queens Printer). ... Belief among the Canadian government was equality would be born if all citizens can be treated equally without distinctions. ... The Indian Act establishes the reserves, and the land base of the aboriginal communities, not negotiating the desired territory they would pursue. ... Legally many case...

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But Aboriginal laws and customs had lasted hundreds of years, based on traditions such as kinship ties and rituals. ... Public law is an individual versus the Australian government, for example, criminal law, constitutional law and environmental law. ...

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This was a crucial step in assuring that Americans were given the opportunity to know exactly what records government agencies had about them. ... ut that government agencies are still allowed to blank out parts of the files they send to private citizens that contain where their information came from (52). ... Most Americans are aware that the government holds records on them but few realize how many records the government has and exactly what information those records contain. ... Although some of this information may be necessary in calculating social security and other government program...

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Constitutions can either be written "formal document outlining the rules and regulations" or unwritten - based on customs and a wide range of statutes and other legal documents. ... The constitution also stresses that the Treaty of Waitangi is the founding document of New Zealand's government. The structure of New Zealand's government is fundamental in understanding the formation of the country's constitution. The Government follows a Westminster system, which means there is a constitutional monarchy and a sovereign Parliament. ... The executive branch consists of the Pr...

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It is also what prevents governments and their agents from invading citizens' privacy. ... According to John Locke, it is the government's highest responsibility to protect the rights of all its citizens. ... The original anti-sodomy statue was based on a belief that homosexuality is immoral, one of the pervasive moral precepts of the South. Moral precepts are rules of behavior based on ideas of right and wrong (Ranney, 2001). ... As gay and lesbian advocacy groups have tried to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation, the 1986 Bowers v. ...

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The Shining Path is a radical political organization that used various terrorist methods against the government. In retaliation, the Peruvian government then started committing human rights violations against innocent citizens of Peru. ... Thousands of innocent people have been tortured, imprisoned, and murdered based upon assumptions made from the government. ... They also send educational materials about their cause to judges, army and police forces, social organizations, academic audiences, and non-governmental organizations. ...

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Based on our reading and discussions, are there other features you think are more important or distinctive? ... Now a day, it has been implicit that Common law rules are based on precedent. ... Thus from foregoing statement, it cannot be said that American law is either exclusively common-law based nor entirely civil law system. ... Federalism is the splitting of powers between the regional governments and the central government. ... The constitution of the United States entrusts specific powers that are enumerated to the central government. ...

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(2) Defining Constitutionalism We will employ Fred Ridley's (1988: p. 317) broad definition of a constitution as: ...the whole system of government of a country, the collection of rules, written and unwritten, which regulate the government'. ... It has four key features: (1) It establishes, or constitutes, the system of government, hence it is prior to the system of government, rules cannot be derived from that system; (2) it involves an authority outside and above the order it establishes - the notion of constituent power' - this power in a liberal ...

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As there were no previous establishment to base their ideals on, it was understandable that there were some difficulties in their progression as a society. Although the ancient Greek and Roman governments fell, both had similar paths of creation, conquest, and destruction. ... "The city-state, based on tribal allegiances, was generally the first political association during the early stages of civilization." ( Perry, 45) This was the first step in the progression toward early self-government. ... "It is to Greece that we ultimately trace the idea of democracy and all that accompanies it: ci...

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Locke has since become a classical contribution to the theory of constitutional government. ... However, the liberal state fought back by finding their political base in John Locke's Second Treatise of Government. Therefore, Locke's political views of popular sovereignty, mixed government, separation of powers, and countervailance model became the origin of the theory of constitutional government. ... Locke reaffirmed his point by stating that with these 3 forms of government "the community may make compounded and mixed forms of government, as they think good(p.68)." ... Thus, ...

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Though the Magna Carta was based on agreement between the king and the nobles, and did not include the majority of the English people, it laid the foundation for social contract. ... The Magna Carta ensured the rule of law by binding the king and nobles in explicit written contract and became a symbol of liberty and constitution government for future generations. ... It asserted that powers of parliament are superior to those of the king and that government is based upon contract between the rulers and those ruled, which can be broken if the rulers were to violate the terms of the co...

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One of the most important changes in the French Revolution was the shift in government from absolutism to a constitutional Monarchy. ... This new shift in government limited much of the King's power and gave every citizen a voice. ... This marked the end to exemption from taxation, freedom, and equal rights for all men in access to public office based on talent, not status. ... One of the changes that this group benefited from is the shift in government to a Constitutional Monarchy, ending absolutism. ... They now had a fair chance based on talent, not rank in society. ...

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The separation based on ethnicity is ultimately a provoking factor that lead to the violence that escalated in Rwanda between the Hutus and the Tutsis, where the Tutsis were favored incredibly. ... He helped to incite and provoke the ethnicity based violence, promoting Hutu extremism until it eventually escalated into the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, where 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered between April and July that year. ... It is based on three pillars of Belgian Civil Law, Traditional Law (in the Gacaca Courts) and is attempting to move towards common law in an attempt to modernize. ... Horizo...

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Internal sovereignty is based on the principle that each state free to practice its rights without outside interference. Internal sovereignty theoretically means that the government of any state has supremacy over the people, resources and all other authorities within the territory it controls. ... External sovereignty is based on the notion that the territorial integrity of every state is inviolate. ... Church being the sovereign power used the religion as the source of the law; thus sovereignty was based on religious rules. ... There are many other examples of government actions bei...

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Any democracies are heavily based on a religious belief of treating others as if you would want to be treated. No matter what religion, if it's a democracy, it's for surely to be based on the equal rights of others. ... Therefore, one of the best things about a democracy is being able to have a freedom of speech versus other governmental systems that don't tolerate their citizens to speak on anything. ... As long as the representatives that make the nation of democracy feel as if they're heard or equal, most likely there will not be a major problem between government and pe...

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In order to develop a successful government, the Framers developed our three branch system. ... The citizens should be able to trust our government to follow the constitution. ... This holds true for our government as well. ... They based their ruling on the fact that we were at war with the Japanese and not the individuals in our own country. ... The Supreme Court's decisions are based on whether or not they will cause the citizens to panic. ...

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The government's main job is to serve and protect the people in society. Morality is based off of following natural law, which is a fundamental duty in Locke's society. ... All this put together allows for a more free society and limited government. ... In Locke's society the government has no sovereignty of it's own; therefore, if society and the members feel as if the government is impeding their individual rights and moral code, they have the ability to dissolve the government at any time. ... Locke's system is based upon individual rights, but it also relies on the...

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The government has made a statement concerning their goals for such electronic monitoring. ... One huge privacy issue is based in the tracking of cell phones. ... Right now, the government can obtain transaction logs containing a person's entire on-line profile just getting a subpoena from an investigator (Edwards and Boucher). ... New bills require the government to reimburse the phone companies for reasonable costs of the growing needs from law enforcement. Cellular companies are also being pressured by the government for the tracking of ...

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It is believed to be the first case in the nation in which the government has sought to take control of a gang's identity, via its logo, through a court order. ... Loy and Alan Mansfield, an attorney with the San Diego-based Consumer Law Group of California, successfully challenged the Justice Department's last effort to seize the Mongols' trademark through the tool of asset forfeiture. Citing the government's, "unlawful action based on an ungrounded and unsubstantiated legal theory," a federal judge also ordered the Justice Department to reimburse the attorneys ...

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In Tasmanian Dams case (1983) section 51(29) external affairs allowed the Commonwealth to stop the Tasmanian Government from building a dam inside a world heritage area. ... Hence through section 51(29) the Tasmanian Government was unable to touch the land in which they had intended on. ... The Court made it very clear that State and Territory Governments would be limited in the way that they might negotiate land claims through legislative or executive action. ... Where as the Legalist High Court view claims that, the separation of powers means that parliament makes law and that courts shoul...

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