Human societies have always required systems to maintain balance, order, and control. The foundation of human civilization spawned from a rapid growth in population during the neolithic era, compelling communities to form hierarchical systems, and early ideas of law. While, during the millennia that followed, ideological and technological progress compelled these systems to evolve and improve, history reveals a repetitive continuity connecting the past and present. The decisions, systems, and mistakes made in the past inevitably echo into the future, our occasional capacity to learn from these mistakes notwithstanding.
In founding the United States, the pioneering leaders sought to rectify the tyrannical practices which compelled them to seek …show more content…
In that our current system continues to appeal to this document, our contemporary government remains largely unchanged since its founding. The respective branches, the court system, and the policy of free elections still derive their functionality from that document. In citing the values that make the United States uniquely remarkable, politicians and pundits often refer to this system, as it, on paper, represents a pervasive testament to equality and liberty. The judicial and electoral systems seek to ease tensions that spring from natural conflicts, and through administrative authority conclude those tensions, providing a purportedly unbiased resolution. The Constitution offers any suspect a fair trial, one conducted in accordance to public law. Civil cases, created in response to conflicts between citizens, occur similarly. The figures given authority to oversee the offices maintaining these systems are awarded their power through direct, or at least semi direct public consent: free elections held regularly. These systems, on paper, seek the best and most fair outcome for those involved, their existence derived from the founding principles which authored justice as the extension of fairness. Functioning in regards to their just cause, these systems acted as arbiters of human tension, so that the moral qualms shared by victims of a crime, or the ideological divide between …show more content…
Greeting his sister Electra, he reveals that the oracle of Apollo require that he avenge his father. He kills his mother and her lover similarly to how she killed Agamemnon, and afterwards seeks Delphic council to purify himself. Later departing to Athens, his mother Clytemnestra’s ghost spurs the Furies to seek revenge against Orestes. These Furies, as they exist in the Athenian mythological culture, represent the human urge to punish those who have done wrong. In effect, their vengeful fury acts as a personification of extralegal vengeance. Homer’s Iliad details their function as executors for dead men’s revenges:“Furies, who underground/ avenge dead men, when any man has sworn to a falsehood” (Iliad XIX, 260-1). They served as arbiters of the natural conflict between citizens, extensions of the vengeful branch of human
In founding the United States, the pioneering leaders sought to rectify the tyrannical practices which compelled them to seek …show more content…
In that our current system continues to appeal to this document, our contemporary government remains largely unchanged since its founding. The respective branches, the court system, and the policy of free elections still derive their functionality from that document. In citing the values that make the United States uniquely remarkable, politicians and pundits often refer to this system, as it, on paper, represents a pervasive testament to equality and liberty. The judicial and electoral systems seek to ease tensions that spring from natural conflicts, and through administrative authority conclude those tensions, providing a purportedly unbiased resolution. The Constitution offers any suspect a fair trial, one conducted in accordance to public law. Civil cases, created in response to conflicts between citizens, occur similarly. The figures given authority to oversee the offices maintaining these systems are awarded their power through direct, or at least semi direct public consent: free elections held regularly. These systems, on paper, seek the best and most fair outcome for those involved, their existence derived from the founding principles which authored justice as the extension of fairness. Functioning in regards to their just cause, these systems acted as arbiters of human tension, so that the moral qualms shared by victims of a crime, or the ideological divide between …show more content…
Greeting his sister Electra, he reveals that the oracle of Apollo require that he avenge his father. He kills his mother and her lover similarly to how she killed Agamemnon, and afterwards seeks Delphic council to purify himself. Later departing to Athens, his mother Clytemnestra’s ghost spurs the Furies to seek revenge against Orestes. These Furies, as they exist in the Athenian mythological culture, represent the human urge to punish those who have done wrong. In effect, their vengeful fury acts as a personification of extralegal vengeance. Homer’s Iliad details their function as executors for dead men’s revenges:“Furies, who underground/ avenge dead men, when any man has sworn to a falsehood” (Iliad XIX, 260-1). They served as arbiters of the natural conflict between citizens, extensions of the vengeful branch of human