Essays Tagged: "equal right"

Capital punishment

AND THE NATURE OF MORAL COMMUNITYA central principal of a just society is that every person has an equal right to'life, liberity, and happiness.' Within that, an arguement for capitalpunishment forms ... be treated wellon the basis of their own wrongdoing. An ideal community would be madeup pf free and equal citizens devoted to a balance between individual needsand the advancement of common good. Comm ...

(2 pages) 90 0 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Capital punishment

a rejection of capital punishment.A central principle of a just society is that every personhas an equal right to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' Within that framework, an argument for ... ell on the basis of their own incessant wrongdoing. An ideal community would be made up of free and equal citizens devoted to a balance between individual self-fulfillment and the advancement of the c ...

(10 pages) 235 1 4.1 Mar/1995

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Capital Punishment

AND THE NATURE OF MORAL COMMUNITYA central principle of a just society is that every person has an equal right to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' Within that framework, an argument for ... ell on the basis of their own incessant wrongdoing. An ideal community would be made up of free and equal citizens devoted to a balance between individual self-fulfillment and the advancement of the c ...

(10 pages) 182 1 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Hobbes' "Leviathan".

es out of a state of war which he entitles the state of nature. In the state of nature, all men are equal, and thus, they have equal right to liberty. This equality of liberty is without external impe ... e the Commonwealth as there are no bodies to enforce its terms..In the State of Nature, all men are equal and are equally able to threaten one another. From this equality arises an equality of hope in ...

(8 pages) 132 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Watched the movie "Romero" and wrote about the Social Justice in Romero.

an of love, dignified faith, valor, and hope; he was a man of social justice. Social Justice is the equal right for every member of society. Oscar knew he had to defend his people and if that meant dy ...

(2 pages) 67 0 3.9 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The pros and cons of capital punishment from all angles.

ejection of capital punishment. A central principle of a just society is thatevery person has an equal right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit ofhappiness." Within that framework, an argument f ...on the basis of their own incessant wrongdoing. An ideal community would be madeup of free and equal citizens devoted to a balance between individual self-fulfillment and the advancement of th ...

(10 pages) 267 2 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

"Normative ethical subjectivism" and the four arguments aganist it with examples

olerance, disagreement and atheism.The democracy argument makes the premise that if everyone has an equal right to have and voice moral opinions then everyone's moral opinions are equally plausible. T ... everyone's moral opinions are equally plausible. The next premise states that everyone does have an equal right to have and voice moral opinions. These two premises lead to the conclusion that everyon ...

(6 pages) 152 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Women in sport

Women in sportJane English has presented several arguments related to sexual equality in athletics. Crucial to these arguments is the distinction between basic and scarce athlet ... ction between basic and scarce athletic benefits. Basic benefits are those to which everyone has an equal right; scarce benefits are those to which everyone does not have an equal right. Examples of b ... port 2001, Raymond Bellioti puts across an argument regarding women in sports, and their demand for equal coverage and prize money. One of the first points that he makes is that; "Members of disadvant ...

(7 pages) 93 0 4.7 May/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

"Beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us; a radiance inside us." What is feminine?

I am a feminist, but I did not know it. I believe in women having equal right and opportunities to those of men, and I hope some time in my lifetime women will hold a ... t thought I was a minority, but I never thought twice about this. The reality is that women are not equal that is why these things are in place. A society dominated by men has created images we are al ... men has created images we are all supposed to fit into; images that hold women back in our fight to equality, and images that serve men's wants and fantasy. To not fit into these images is a crime pun ...

(4 pages) 26 0 4.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Are Rawls' arguments for the Difference Principle convincing?

two principles of justice to structure society in reality.The first principle of justice is that of equal liberty, i.e. Each person has an equal right to the most extensive liberties compatible with a ... compatible with a similar liberties for all. The second principle states that social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advant ...

(8 pages) 120 0 4.3 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Same-Sex Marriage

xperiences like getting married, living together or having children. "What we are asking for is our equal right to marry the one we love and care for, just as non-gay Americans do" (Sullivan).What is ... if you are married then if you were an individual. When you are married you have two incomes, which equals a higher standard of living. Same-sex couples do not have the opportunity to get married or s ...

(6 pages) 143 0 4.7 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Women's Rights Movement

s etc. Women have the right to hold property, right of freedom, right to vote, etc. some state have equal right amendment, which would state some thing like "no person shall be discriminated on the ba ... 31} women of generation before us had to face a lot of difficulties to achieve the independence and equal rights as men that we just take for granted. In this paper I will be discussing the historical ...

(7 pages) 150 0 4.3 Oct/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Women In Syria

d reached important achievements at many levels, the Syrian society does not yet completely support equal right laws. In addition, the fact of Syria being a Muslim country is not encouraging as most o ... nges. The GUW is a pro""government union operating all over the country and its goal is "to achieve equal opportunity for all women". It had opened nurseries and kindergartens in order to help working ...

(5 pages) 17 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Common Sense

to any other ?false gods?.As exulting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal right of nature, so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture; for the will of ...

(2 pages) 929 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Greeks Democracy and American Democracy

red to be direct democracy, nevertheless the form of government that a nation implement will be the equal right not in person except through designated representatives is known as a representative dem ... stitution. Athenians insisted that power could only remain in the middle if citizens were political equals. (McGlew, 149) The original proposal of having the society be political equals was the motiva ...

(10 pages) 45 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

CRITICAL ANALYSES OF FAT AND HAPPY, IN DEFENCE OF FAT ACCEPTANCE BY MARY R. WARLEY

ing a part of this society she believes that it is better to accept the reality that people have an equal right to live with full of pride as the thin people.The society believes that thinness gives s ...

(3 pages) 1932 0 3.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Atomic Theory

ed version of those of his teacher, Leucippus. Democritus asserted that space, or the Void), had an equal right with reality as he convinced the Void is a vacuum considering it existent Just as the at ... den Broek in a series of two papers proposed that the atomic weight of an element was approximately equal to the charge on an atom. This charge, later termed the atomic number, could be used to number ...

(5 pages) 15 0 1.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

"Sexism and Feminism in the Late 1800's" in accordance with "The White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman

g-minded minority dropped their oven mits, put their fists in the air, and called out for a change. Equal opportunity, equal right to vote, equal pay, and all around equality is what they demanded. Bu ... waist," (Hartman). This is the world that women of the 19th century lived and died in. A world of inequality, hard work, and little to no praise. This is the world that Gilman and Jewwett wrote in and ...

(6 pages) 21 1 3.0 May/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Analysis of Fahrenheit 451

nature. Not be slaves to technology.Governments should be democratic, where people have a free and equal right to participate in a system of governing . That way they all feel valued. In Fahrenheit 4 ...

(2 pages) 1717 0 0.0 Jun/2011

Subjects: Literature Research Papers