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    Racial profiling is a common law enforcement practice that happens in many different places in American society. It often focuses and singles out different races, religions, ethnicities, or skin color of people. Many professionals question whether it can be justiciable under certain circumstance where it could prevent a massive amount of people from being harm or to apprehend criminals before they commit crimes. Others protest that the practice is unnecessary and causes more harm than good. This…

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    in many forms. In England members of other religions, such as Quakers, were often arrested on various charges and received unjust punishment. Although attempting to flee the often heavy handed laws and unjustified punishments, for the most part settlers brought the same practices of English common law to the new land. Around the 1670s, William Penn organized the first reform of these early criminal justice practices when he wrote a charter of liberties for the settlements of West New Jersey…

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    in order to correct grievances they had against the Roman consuls. Striving to promote rights in the workplace, the plebeians successfully pushed through their desired reforms. Since this unprecedented resistance to laws, there have been thousands of instances of citizens resisting laws in order to promote reform. Martin Luther King Junior, who participated in one of the greatest acts of peaceful resistance, said, “I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as…

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    Branch, I will show you that the Executive Branch has more control in the government. The Executive Branch is the branch of government that enforces the law. The Executive Branch, however, does not make or interpret laws as those are jobs of other branches of government. Despite this, the Executive Branch can sometimes be the source of some types of laws including decrees and executive orders. This branch of government includes the…

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    being of universal concern, such as genocide and war crimes. However, international law is difficult to enforce due to state sovereignty preventing the legal system to effectively deal with international crime. International measures implemented to combat crime include the international…

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    making the law enforcement officers take responsibility for their actions. Oversight agencies observe a certain police department and hold the officers accountable for their actions. At the moment, police agencies are often resistant to taking responsibility for wrongdoings. Police oversight would restore trust in a law enforcement structure. Fixing faulty laws is the third major reform option. Although corrupt officers play a role in this epidemic, so do faulty laws. Drug laws have the…

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    Whereas the federal government itself takes care of other issues such as printing money, taxes, post offices, declaring wars etc. Before the federal system the country was at a very weak point. An example is that, after the war ended in 1783, problems in the union came back, and the country was in danger of falling apart. The states could not agree on how to pay Revolutionary War soldiers, and many veterans returned home to farms saddled with debt and taxes. To Conclude, the separation of…

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    get anything done. If the consul wanted to go to war he needed the support of the senate and the people because the senate controlled the gold for weapons and food and such and the people needed to fight in the army. If the consul didn’t win both groups he wouldn’t be able to go to war very easily. And if the senate wants to pass a law they must have the people and the consul agree if they can’t get both of groups to accept then they can’t pass the law. In a way each group holds power over…

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    Canada needed a Bill of Rights. In World War II,…

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    is missing. Furthermore, Bentham addresses the ideas of collective security and disarmament; where the arms will be held aside and not used unless there is a need to deal with pirates ( Doyle 227). Bentham argues that ending wars will help individuals save money as with war there are larger amounts paid by taxpayers. Bentham also discusses the emancipation of colonies when discussing international institutions and states that “colonies are seldom, if ever, sources of profit of the mother…

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