Essays Tagged: "individual rights"
An Argument for the Legalization of Drugs. Based on John Stuart Mills' "Revised Harm Principle"'
or this issue leads one to come down on the side of legalization. Since Mills is concerned not with individual rights, but with the consequences of one's actions on other people, the question becomes: ... actions on other people, the question becomes: Is drug use an action that, although performed by an individual, threatens the vital interests of others? Using the example of a casual, responsible drug ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
A libertarian point of view
e easy description ortheology. I definitely am libertarian most frequently, I tend to go the way of individualrights and small government. However I am not strictly libertarian. I believe that smallgo ... d fend for themselves. Government shouldn't involve themselves in that which can betaken care of by individuals or their families or communities. The most important thing thata government can do is pr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Individual Rights vs. State's Rights
97In the reviewing the case of Planck v. Indiana, many complicated issues arise. Included in those, individual rights conflicting with the public good are among the most difficult. According to Mr and ... 's religious beliefs. On the other hand, it is imperative that the state does not infringe upon the individual's beliefs by intervening for the sake of the public good. Where is the line that says the ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
The Great Emancipator? The controversy of whether or not Abraham Lincoln deserves all the credit for "freeing" the slaves.
in time, effects of slavery and segregation would vanish and the country would emerge supportive of individual rights for all. Yet, there were some difficulties with the story, (after being exposed to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Why the American Government has the authority to take away our rights during the time of War and that National Security supercedes the rights of the people.
s engaged in military conflict, do the demands of national security supercede conflicting claims of individual rights?" ...Only the greatest dangers can outweigh that of changing the public order, and ... stance in which we debate whether or not national security ought to supersede conflicting claims of individual rights. That circumstance is when the U.S. is engaged in military conflict and when natio ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
the demands of national security Vs. Individual Rights
ged in military conflict, the demands of national security ought to supersede conflicting claims of individual rights.Definitions from Encarta World English DictionaryEngaged in Military Conflict mean ... able to be followed or acted on, because each requires different and incompatible actions.Claims of individual rights are demands for entitlements, freedoms, or privileges a person has.Before I begin, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Individual Rights Vs. National Security
States is engaged in military conflict, national security ought to supercede conflicting claims of individual rights. My value for the round is Human Dignity, or what can be defined as a respect for ... zensMy sole contention proves that a government's legitimacy is contingent upon its preservation of individual rights. According to Charles Ogletree, Professor of Law at Harvard University, "The U.S. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Short essay on Affirmative Action
Affirmative ActionMajor issues surrounding affirmative action question if this policy violates individual rights or if its necessary in creating an equal society. Affirmative action is a program ... sary in creating an equal society. Affirmative action is a program that takes the sex or race of an individual into account when hiring in order to balance the number of minorities and whites. The mor ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
This essay is about Prayer in Schools. It covers the two controvercial sides of public schools vs. private schools.
nvironment that is accommodating to various religious denominations. Within the public schools, the individual rights of the students are unconstitutional after and protected more so than private scho ... lnerable class. It would attack the heart of the Bill of Rights, which safeguards the rights of the individual from the tyranny of the majority." (Chrisitan, pg. 2).In conclusion, is it right to enfor ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Gender Bias In The Workplace And Pay Inequalities
orrect discrimination in theworkplace passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Act. This actprotects individual rights and promotes employment opportunities andfairness for everyone within the workplac ... t image and notactually following it. Yes, they hire minorities and yes they hirefemales, but these individuals do not have the same advantages as men.Often times they hire just for quotes and this ca ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Compulsory Voting: Why it is a bad idea.
democracy, because democracy by definition is meant to uphold the principles of social equality and individual rights 1.Forcing someone to make a choice, even when they are uninformed or feel thereare ... make a choice, even when they are uninformed or feel thereare no suitable candidates, violates the individual democratic rights of freedom of opinion and personal expression. It also increases the nu ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Individual freedoms are under attack due to intrusion by government into our daily lives.
Today many of our individual freedoms are under attack due to intrusion by government into our daily lives. I am going ... intend to show what our theme states, that banning smoking is an immoral and impractical attack on individual freedom. I am therefore arguing even organizations such as Quit Australia and the AMA cal ... ustralia and the AMA call for other means of controlling smoking and not banning, due to erosion of individual rights.We are not just talking about banning smoking in certain areas such as aeroplanes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Anti-Discrimination measures and the EU.
fers to equality and non-discrimination, there was no legal basis for the application of such basic individual rights. As the Union progressively matured through its Treaties, Regulations, Declaration ... rate the transformation of European integration from an economic to a political phenomenon based on individual rights. It is seen as an extension of the goal of achieving a free market to a desire to ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > European Union
The Ideas of John Locke.
e were entitled to retain certain inalienable rights. Therefore, a government must respect person's individual rights thus limiting its power over the people. Locke believed that citizens had a social ... lieved that the state had a monopoly on the means of legitimate violence and therefore could coerce individuals to contribute to the public goods. In Locke's view, anything that does not involve right ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Pros and cons of the Death Penalty.
that combines frequent executions with a highly developed legal system characterized by respect for individual rights.Some of the pros and cons are as follows:Pros- Just Punishment-A punishm ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Gender Bias In The Workplace And Pay Inequalities.
orrect discrimination in theworkplace passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Act. This actprotects individual rights and promotes employment opportunities andfairness for everyone within the workplac ... t image and notactually following it. Yes, they hire minorities and yes they hirefemales, but these individuals do not have the same advantages as men.Often times they hire just for quotes and this ca ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
The glorious revolution and its importance as a precedent for the subsequent revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries and the shaping of democracy.
f the aristocracy. This created a relentless pursuit by the masses for a liberal mass democracy and individual rights. In comparison to other events, the Glorious Revolution was integral in paving the ... nal monarchy. The first 'Bill of Rights', ensured this and indirectly invested in the rights of the individual to freedom from absolute power. As a precedent, the Glorious Revolution was an integral p ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Write an essay of 1000 words stating whether Australia will become a Republic within 20 years & some of the legal issues that relate.
luding who will replace the Monarch and what their powers would be, how do the States protect their individual rights, and how to remove from a Constitution the foundation upon which it was built with ... of the States. If the role of State Governor is removed, as would seem likely, does this leave the individual states further at the mercy of the Commonwealth? As has been seen in the Tasmanian Dam ca ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Reform Movement in the United States sought to expand democratic ideals." Assess the validity of this statement with specific references to the years 1825 to 1850.
ment made reforms that greatly increased the influence of democratic ideals: universal suffrage and individual rights. Such reforms included prisons, churches, women suffrage, temperance, and educatio ... seless and therefore the reform of the prisons would fix this problem and therefore be able to save individual rights and become clean.Church reforms also expanded democratic ideals through allowing f ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Constantinoples influence in the west
t is a "developed system of belief." While in our time this refers to constitutional government and individual rights, the pre-modern equivalent took on the more recognizable form of religion.While un ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History