... : what makes the law the law Law (is) = Rules + (issued by a) Sovereignty. Rules = General Commands A command is an expression of a wish backed by a threat to inflict an evil (=sanction, like telling the child to get the toy is not a command unless it is backed by a threat) in case the wish is not fulfilled, issued by someone who is willing and able to act ... law are laws. Positive laws are those rules which are issued by a sovereign. Sovereign = habitually obeyed by the bulk of the community + cannot habitually obey anyone else. So, if a sovereign gives a general rule backed by a sanct...

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... then, about 50,000 appeals are filed every year (Encarta). Decisions of the appeals court are final unless the Supreme Court agrees to hear further. The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the country. It consists of nine judges called justices, including a chief justice and eight associate justices. The framers of the Constitution envisioned a separate judicial branch lying between the executive and ... treaties between the United States and other countries. The Senate has 100 members, two from each state. The House of Representatives, usually just called "The House", con...

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... mental retardation. This case made it unconstitutionally to execute someone that was mentally challenged. 2004 brought a year in which New York abolished its death penalty completely. Roper v. Simmons changed the law on the execution of 18 or younger adults. It was ruled unconstitutional and cruel punishment. June 25, 2008, found that the killing of an offender convicted on child while no death was present, was ... excessive and an alternate form of punishment had to be found. In 2009, both New Mexico replaced its death penalty ... Lee. Also in 2010 lethal drug shortage delays many exe...

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... an effective solution in the criminal justice system this is not the case. Plea bargaining has not only allowed the total number of reversible errors but it has also allowed the judge to protect his reputation better than ever before. Howsoever, the defendant incentive seems to not really be ... lawyer and his mother was a high school guidance counselor [Dav07]. In Andrew's case, Andrew and two of his friends from school employed a prostitute and called her to his home [Dav07]. Instead of having sexual intercourse with the prostitute, they assaulted and robbed her. While the evidence the...

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... Not" by William Greider. The Philippines is a country housing hundreds of sweatshops. Industrialization has displaced the population from rural areas, to cities. The population of the city of Rosario has swelled to 60, 000 and it is because of the export-processing zone (EPZ) called Cavite with approximately 207 factories. Cavite is gated from the rest of Rosario. (Klein p. 202) At the gates workers must show their ... . Clearly, as one can see from the information available to consumers, sweatshops are an environment that does not insure the well being of the workers. Whether it is toxic...

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... people felt the Racial Justice Act was needed. I think that the Democratic led legislature had the best interest of all the citizens of North Carolina at heart but the way some of the legislation was worded, made it easier for Republicans to oppose it. Republicans felt like it was giving convicted individuals a free pass at trying to get their death sentence commuted to life without the ... used racial biases when selecting the jury in this case. To help refute this claim, the prosecutors called eight witnesses to testify of the state's behalf. They called six current of former judges w...

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... . On the other hand, citizens who don't have a good steady income don't see the benefits in supporting their government. Most of the time participating in the government is a luxury. No matter if it is time given, or money given, it is a luxury to be able to do either when you are lower on the SES scale. Citizens who are lower on the SES ... point is that citizens get to see the reasons why everyone does not participate. Often time politics can affect places of employment. In this case it takes those citizens who know how to get things done so that employees won't get taken advantage of....

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... The Ombudsman is an office created by statute, which aims to act as a formal external control on the actions of the state. It does this by investigating the myriad complaints made by citizens, who have appropriate standing against the government. The office of the Ombudsman can only make recommendations, and has a wide discretion not to investigate matters that may be considered frivolous ... or are not warranted in the circumstances. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is a statutory body that was created to investigate instances of alleged corruption among public servan...

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... their personal rights will be discriminated against, such as in the instances when the elites decides they are deaf to the rule of law. 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 ... government must follow the rules and laws with uniformity and certainty as the rules and laws are set out under the country's Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When the government decideds it is deaf to the rul...

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... answer to that isn't to make marijuana more available in the community." Quick has concerns that if the drug were made readily available to adults that it will naturally begin to fall into the hands of minors as well. This will result in an academic decline as well as an increase in disciplinary problems within schools. He concludes the article by providing ... most popular rock music icons today "would beg to differ." In (Bennett, 2014), she is quoted as saying, "I have been addicted to it and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping and it's a form of self-medication and I was smokin...

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... Topplan Estates v Townley, the owner does not even have to be aware that he owns the land. Cockburn CJ noted in Seddon v Smith that one very strong piece of evidence of factual possession was the enclosure by fencing as it encloses the land to exclude others. In Red House Farms Ltd v Catchpole where shooting wildfowl was held to be sufficient as an act ... with the 'general interest'. The Grand Chamber considered the operation of limitation rules to be concerned with the control of possession rather than with deprivation. In the view of dissenting judges, absence of compensation ca...

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... bureaucratization (Blank, 2011: 636 - 637). Disenchantment is a process that has resulted in the division in a world that was once unified because of the existence of religion. It is a process that has led to the fragmentation of a whole and the ability to make sense of and find meaning in the world Blank, 2011: 637). This is because key players in the sphere in the sphere find ... also be the real aspect and not just how individuals perceive or imagine life to be. Sometimes there are deep seated issues that are so entrenched in the minds of people that it becomes difficult to see or im...

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... totally separate. The organs do checks and balances between one another in order to prevent the abuse of power. Separation of Power in UK Although the UK constitution has no written constitution but it consisted of a golden principle of Separation of Power. This was further stated in the case of R v Her Majesty's Treasury, ex parte Smedley , Sir John Donaldson MR stated that: ' Although the United Kingdom ... checks that by choosing all the justices in the court. Third, the executive branch can veto a bill. The legislative branch checks that by looking at it again and possibly cance...

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... and whenever and so often as the government is satisfied that the ordinary courts are inadequate to secure the effective administration and the preservation of public peace and order and that it is therefore necessary that this part of this act should come into force, the Government may make and publish a proclamation that the government is satisfied as aforesaid and ordering that ... is deliberately designed to disturb the public order by intimidation or terror." As we will see below, the broad scope of the definition of acts of terrorism leaves considerable margin for arbitrary actio...

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... County, Illinois, set up the country's first juvenile court. Today, every state has a separate court system for juveniles. These courts generally handle two different groups of juveniles: the delinquent offender and the status offender. A delinquent child is one who has committed an act that is a crime for adults under federal, state, or local law. Status offenders, on the other hand, are youths ... County, Illinois, set up the country's first juvenile court. Today, every state has a separate court system for juveniles. These courts generally handle two different groups of juveniles: th...

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... civile. The laws of the Twelve Tables are one of the earliest extant law codes. Covering both civil and criminal matters, it is commonly believed that these laws served to codify existing custom. They provide not only a valuable insight into Roman law, but into Roman culture as well. Here are some excerpts taken from the translated version. Quickly kill ... a dreadfully deformed child. If a father ... thrice surrender a son for sale, the son shall be free from the father. A child born ten months after the father's death will not be admitted into a legal inheritance. Females shall remain...

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... self-consciousness, awareness, capacity to feel, etc." In addition, Singer infers that potential for rationality and the like is of no consequence in this view (Wennberg 83). Second, that because it contains a soul, it is a sin to destroy it. Third, that the conception of a child is contingent upon divine intervention and is therefore sacred, and humans should have no authority in the matter. Catholic priest George ... 14th amendment did not apply to the unborn (Terkel 32). All of these revolutionary decisions met with a mixture of relief from civil rights activists and shock from the ri...

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... to the rules and regulations of a state. Morgan (2012) indicated that the obligation 'duty of care' of a professional may not be upheld if it is in contradictory with the rule of Law of that state. According to the section three of 'Children Act' (1989), which is "parental responsibility", indicates that rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority of a child belongs to the parents. ... This suggests that any contract with a legal binding (example medical consent) involving a child is ... wishes known to the nurse. According to the "Children Act" 1989 (DH, 1989), it ...

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... and unjust law, as everyone recognizes that the state sometimes oversteps its bounds. However, it is the responsibility of the citizen to point out this injustice to the state, and persuade the state of their error. Socrates makes his presentation of the Social Contract in what is sometimes called "The Speech of the Laws" in the Crito, sections 50a-54d. Crito has come to persuade Socrates ... would be the first formulation of the Social Contract theory. The first aforementioned argument is that the state has raised and nurtured Socrates; therefore he owes the state a debt, which can onl...

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... every American is granted their unalienable given rights. Advantages of the jury system are suppose to be direct participation of American people, conventional judgment by people, fair stage of investigation, resistance against politics' and judicial plot, and making of democratic consciousness. This isn't the case in most trials, though, since if one jury is against the verdict, it is regarded as being room for doubt. The ... Criminal Justice System has always had discrimination in it. Discrimination can come from the ... defenders is twenty dollars an hour but can go as high as one-th...

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... hand give asylum to their parents. Since The Senate passed the Immigration Reform Bill and sent it to the House, more than 75,000 children have had one or both parents deported. According to an estimate by the article "Exploring Parent–Child Communication in the Context of Threat: Immigrant Families Facing Detention and Deportation in Post-9/11 USA," by Brinton Lykes, Kalina ... from their undocumented parents. When a U.S. born child's undocumented parents are deported, he/she is faced with many difficulties as economic hardships, and emotional and psychological traumas. But what happ...

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... in the same manner or suffer the same consequences for their behaviour as adults, young persons who commit offences should nonetheless bear responsibility for their contraventions; (b) society must, although it has the responsibility to take reasonable measures to prevent criminal conduct by young persons, be afforded the necessary protection from illegal behaviour; (c) young persons who commit offences require supervision, ... not attend at the time and place named in the order or fails to remain in attendance as required and it is proved that a copy of the order was served on the pare...

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... by the rights assigned in the other branches of the government, and by the doctrine of "stare decisis", or better describe as maintaining what has been decided (Manaugh). In other words Judges does not have the unlimited right to make and interpret laws. If the state or the federal administration passes a law, then it's called statutory law, which judges are compelled to ... follow, although when the law it's not clear they can interpret it. However they ... can interpret a law, judges cannot use their discretion to overruled statutory laws. With that been said, if a judge has already ...

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... . Another reason why inmates seem to have no legal recourse is that prosecutors seem to have no interest in prosecuting offenders from crimes committed in prison. In fact, it seems as if a number of members of the criminal justice culture feel that prison crime is simply par for the course. Justice Clarence Thomas echoed this sentiment when he stated that, "Prisons are necessarily ... in this situation are not unfounded. For instance, one testimonial that was published in the Human Rights Watch report told of a prisoner called M.R. According to his story, M.R. was raped, and when he repo...

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... are contact bail/detention and sentancing. But before I talk about these steps I am going to talk about crime, from taking this course it is said that only 50% of crimes are reported and have that is handled. This is where the initial contact step comes in play. I feel that police departments do ... unecissary roughness, but law enforcement officers carry guns and nightsticks for a reason and in present time if a officer uses one or the other it can be a huge deal and it is called police brutatlity, I feel that if a criminal (felon) is on the run police have the right to fire a weapon, ...

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