Affirmation in law

loss of American privacy is one of the many results of the new set of revised laws that have been rewritten to give the government more freedom in observing our electronic fingerprint (“Surveillance Under the Patriot Act”). In their hurry to act on the tragedy of 9/11, Congress passed the Act a mere 45 days of the event, with little to no debate. The result of it’s ratification, was a drastic change in the surveillance laws and restrictions of the federal government (“End Mass Surveillance Under…

required for law enforcement to follow when notifying a suspect of their rights before entering custody or undergoing custodial interrogation (Rennison, C. M., & Dodge M. (2016). Introduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity and Change [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1219517/files?preview=58654921). The Miranda Warning is as follows: “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have…

The National Security Agency (NSA) is an organization that is a part of the United States government that is responsible for the collection and processing of worldwide data records as well as global monitoring. According to an article from Electronic Frontier Foundation, the NSA is “responsible for collecting, processing, and disseminating intelligence information from foreign electronic signals for national foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes and to support military…

Is it correct to argue that human rights have existed since the earliest times within human history? The belief that all human beings are entitled to certain humans rights is fairly new across the world even though it is argued that they have existed in many different traditions before this (www1.umn.edu). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been described as a succession of international breakthroughs and revolutionary declarations (www.krisis.eu). It proclaims that all human beings…

of the state on July 2, 1976. The United States Supreme Court decided to take on the case due to their beliefs and opinions on morals in society. The court wanted to clarify the issue of the death penalty to further emphasize or change the current laws that were in place as well as to terminate further discussion and finalize the court’s decision on cases that included the death penalty seeing as there were many who disagreed with the sentence as well as the sentence's relation to the…

Acacia Frempong-Manso 400013992 Philos 3N03 November 30th 2017 G.A Cohen’s criticisms of Rawls G.A. Cohen is best recognized in modern political philosophy for making the claim that the principles of justice are an essential reason behind the justification of an action-guiding principle, however, they are inappropriate to the conduct political practice. In Cohen's book, Rescuing Justice and Equality, he makes two criticisms of John Rawls. The first objection is that Rawl's is unable to…

The Constrained Court’s Role in the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights movement was a collaborative effort towards equal rights for African Americans. In 1954, the Supreme Court deemed “separate but equal” unconstitutional in the case, Brown v. Board of Education. In The Hollow Hope, Gerald N. Rosenberg analyzes the Court’s power in the Civil Rights movement, suggesting that the Court lacked the tools needed to create social reform. In From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, Michael Klarman…

In this essay, I examine arguments from Durkheimian, conflict and Foucauldian theoretical approaches to punishment, ultimately analyzing the state’s role in the punitive process. In regards to Emile Durkheim, I am analyzing David Garland’s “Punishment and Social Solidarity: the Work of Emile Durkheim”, originally published in 1991. For the conflict theorists, I am working with Meda Chesney-Lind’s “Girl’s Crime and Woman’s Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency”, originally…

“This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.” --1841 – 1935 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice Justice Holmes believed that when a man begins to talk about justice, he is shirking thinking in legal terms. Following his reasoning, thinking in ‘legal terms’ includes both state and federal rules of civil procedures, as well as court precedent, the very foundation of our legal system. Hence, as a paralegal observing applicable court and civil procedure rules…

The basic requirements for obtaining search warrants begin with probable cause. Probable Cause is the level of suspicion that must be reached under the Fourth Amendment in order to issue a search warrant (Hall, 2014). Probable cause can be based on an officers training, experience, and the totality of the circumstances. Totality of the circumstances can include statements, observations, and evidence, which can include hearsay (Hall, 2014). Probable cause is a higher suspicion than reasonable…