... brief historical insight before focusing more specifically on issues dealing with corruption, civil liberties and political freedom, as well as the lack of rule of law within Cambodian society. History Before being able to focus on the problems Cambodia has faced on its road to establishing a democratic government, one must shed light on Cambodia's rich history. The most important and influential period during Cambodia's ... ancient history was that of the Khmer Empire rule starting around 802 AD ... and lasting as long as 1431. The vast empire comprised much of present day ... ...

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... minority groups. For example, the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1942 caused evacuation of Japanese British Columbia residents to road camps and detention centres. Similar discrimination occurred with the mid-20th century head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants, and most recently, the unjustified detainment of Islamic citizens and immigrants following the attack on the World Trade Centre. It is the court's responsibility to make decisions on an individual basis, free from ... political whim, and in the interest of the public. Judicial supremacy would thereby ... ...

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... within government as a means to satisfy this before the idea emerges in Montesquieu's writings (Gough 1973). Locke believed that governmental power should be vested in more than one institution in order to safeguard against one institution having too great a degree of power. Locke's writing is a work against absolutism, which he saw as a sure road to tyranny. This is an issue which forms ... a firm basis of Locke's theory and will be discussed below. Locke has taken the two principle rights man enjoys in the State of Nature, the right to interpret the Law of Nature for ourselves and the...

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... within government as a means to satisfy this before the idea emerges in Montesquieu's writings (Gough 1973). Locke believed that governmental power should be vested in more than one institution in order to safeguard against one institution having too great a degree of power. Locke's writing is a work against absolutism, which he saw as a sure road to tyranny. This is an issue which forms ... a firm basis of Locke's theory and will be discussed below. Locke has taken the two principle rights man enjoys in the State of Nature, the right to interpret the Law of Nature for ourselves and the...

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... within government as a means to satisfy this before the idea emerges in Montesquieu's writings (Gough 1973). Locke believed that governmental power should be vested in more than one institution in order to safeguard against one institution having too great a degree of power. Locke's writing is a work against absolutism, which he saw as a sure road to tyranny. This is an issue which forms ... a firm basis of Locke's theory and will be discussed below. Locke has taken the two principle rights man enjoys in the State of Nature, the right to interpret the Law of Nature for ourselves and the...

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... trust bonds are more important than the justice and safety within the whole society. When lies are told within the judicial system, unjust decisions are made. Even privileged communication would be irrelevant if the communication was based on lies. For these reasons it is obvious that justice cannot exist without truth and truth seeking is the only road to truth when the truth is not initially obvious beyond ... any reasonable doubt. Which leads to my next contention which is that if truth seeking does not take precedence over privileged communication, then in most cases total justice i...

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