... tend to alter the essential guarantees that all individuals have the right to expect from an equitable process, and from the respect of their fundamental rights. Hence, despite the legislative framework which supports them, the special courts are often perceived as a manifestation of the arbitrary action of the public ... the right to equality before the law? Article 40-1 of the Irish Constitution nevertheless guarantees that: "All citizens shall, as human persons, be held equal before the law. This shall not be held to mean that the State shall not in its enactments, have due regard to...

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... Madison further supported his argument by pointing out that just as there was a need to prevent against the corruption of public officials, as the Anti-Federalists acknowledged, there was an equal need to recognize the possibility that the people will be corrupted by self-interest, and therefore the government must be distant from the people so as not to be corrupted ... use its power unjustly. In response, the Federalists argued quite the contrary and advocated that a strong national government was the absolute best way to protect the people and their natural rights by preventing oppres...

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... creates distributed declarations and power throughout special interest groups, but the pluralist theory does not accommodate "We the People" in terms of all the people in the United States having equal influence because minority groups are constantly fighting against the will of the majority. Within every branch of the government coercion groups and factions representing minority interests compete for power amongst ... and in every division of the government. The best way in which the Constitution shapes the material ingredients of public policy is to proscribe the government from cur...

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