Civil defense

The first section of civil liberties is freedom of expression. The Nigerian people have laws protecting freedom of speech and press. Although in reality the government tends to squash dissention and arrest people who vocally oppose the government. The government is particularly…

intelligence when he visited America. However, women were second to men in school during the time of Tocqueville. Many women could only get an education if the school had additional room after male enrollment was completed. Also, by the time of the Civil War, only five colleges accepted female applicants. Even in the early-to-mid 20th century years, men and women’s schooling was vastly different. Coeducation institutions were highly controversial and subject matters were limited for women,…

Democracy prides itself on giving people freedom. Before the 1920’s women did not have the option to vote much less any other freedoms given to white men. It’s a great controversy over where the line between women’s rights ends and cultural repression begins. Feminists will argue for and against for many different reasons why a niqab or burqa should or shouldn’t be worn. The niqab and burqa area hindrance to women and their rights in Islamic, male dominated countries like Iran and Afghanistan…

Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? Introduction According to the ruling by the Supreme Court in the case Obergefell v. Hodgesin the United States, it is noted that the prohibition of same-sex matrimony is unlawful. Innately, the jury iterated that the Fourteenth Amendment provides equal protection through a due process that should be respected the judiciary, which should protect the rule of law. The United States has long experienced a struggle between people supporting each side of the argument…

Throughout the years people have claimed and argued their position towards a big question. Although the simple truth thesis states that big questions admit simple, obvious, and undisputable answers this is not true. Big questions never admit straightforward and unquestionable answers. A big question can be anything from What is Life? to Is capital punishment wrong? yet, I will focus on Does the adversarial process harm plaintiffs and Defendants?. I will argue that the legal system does harm…

The prompt for King’s letter goal is to compare and contrast Letter from a Birmingham Jail and Handbook of Epictetus. One section of King’s letter dealt with the issue of just and unjust laws and how direct action would effect the outcome. King and Epictetus had two different ways of dealing with unjust laws and the effect of them on an individual person. Their thoughts are similar but not similar enough that one could come to the conclusion that they would both agree. Even though they would not…

Theories regarding the source and acquisition of knowledge, the needs of human life, necessity of freedom, inequality, the general will and the collective good outlined the beginning of civil society. It was from here that an understanding of the political society was built. Good government, sovereignty, and legitimate authority are the definitions upon which the modern state is built. Fundamental to our contemporary understanding of the modern government is the work of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke…

In my opinion, it is never appropriate for an interest group or social movement to engage in violent protest tactics, but, through civil disobedience, is appropriate to engage in illegal behavior to reverse a harmful policy or change public opinion about the status quo. Engaging in violent protest tactics overshadows the message that interest groups or protestors want to project. The Media will focus more on the actual violent actions of these groups, rather than the message they are attempting…

explored in order to better understand his claim. In The Leviathan, Hobbes argues that our state of nature is a state of war. The goal of this book was to prevent Civil War and to show people that any sovereign is better than none at all. What he implies by the state of nature is the state society is in when there is no government, no civil authority, and no legal system. He claims that in this state, there is a constant threat of war. There are three main premises that Hobbes ' discusses.…

Mohandas Gandhi The definition of leadership from Merriam-Webster is the power or ability to lead other people. After looking at this definition and trying to figure out if this definition fit, it didn’t quite fit who he was. Searching for the right definition of a leader, I came across moral leadership. The definition describes a moral leader is someone who aims to serve, tend to better others, a person who can be trusted, and a person who has deep morals and a sense of core ethics. There was a…