Civil law

Our civil rights and liberties are extremely important in today’s day and age. Civil liberties which are protected in the Bill of Rights are in two different category’s freedoms and rights guaranteed in the First Amendment and liberties which are rights associated with crime and due process. A well-known case which has been the front runner in civil rights cases is Miranda v.s. Arizona. Ernesto Miranda was arrested based on circumstantial…

Douglass agrees with Emerson on the premise of civil disobedience. He argues that citizens are obliged to engage in civil disobedience if a law is unjust, and good democratic citizens should seek out the freedom that was naturally endowed to them by the laws of nature. In contrast of Emerson’s view, Douglass argues that regardless if a law personally implicates an individual, a good democratic citizen must engage in civil disobedience if a law is unjust. In his speech, Douglass cites the…

trying to reach an agreement” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.) The role of being a negotiator, or trying to reach an agreement in the case, is a significant one for an attorney because it is popular to settle cases rather than go to trial in both criminal and civil proceedings. In criminal proceedings, both prosecutors and defense attorneys act as negotiators when plea bargaining. A plea bargaining is an agreement that is…

For generations, the human species has rebelled against the social norms of society. The Civil Rights Movement took place in the 1950’s, a time of reform and rebellion. The 1920’s was the era of flappers, speakeasies, and loose women. Going further back to eighteenth century America was the period of revolution that created the great nation that we live in now. Each year, our people find something else wrong in the world and do our best to change it. Without all of these rebellions, our country…

political influence on the operation of a department” (Swanson, 2016, p.134). When used positive, “the positive sense means governance of a city” (Swanson, 2016, p.134). As local police consider taking on involvement in the enforcement of immigration laws, they should consider the legal complexity of their role and legal constraints on methods of enforcement in a legal and institutional system that operates quite differently from local criminal justice systems.…

Historically, the juvenile court system was founded by a group of Progressive reformers who understood that children were less culpable than adults and more responsive to rehabilitation. Brought on by the Civil Rights era and continuing into the twenty-first century however, juvenile courts switched from treatment based and took on an approach more punishment focused. When the nation switched from a largely rural society to a now urban developed one, the media focused their attention on the…

Dual Federalism, also referred to as a commercial republic, is the system of government that shared fundamental governmental powers between the federal and state governments. It was called a commercial republic because programs were built to facilitate commerce, such as the Panama Canal and the sale of low-priced land. “It protected patents and provided for a common currency, which encouraged and facilitated enterprises and to expand (WTP 82)”. These programs that were built to facilitate…

disobedience and rejection of established set rules. In the more recent years, the Civil Rights and Women’s Suffrage movements of the 20th century are…

persuade the government to change its laws or it must obey them, even if they are unjust laws. Socrates’ argument shows that he would be an ardent opponent of Dr. Martin Luther King’s civil disobedience and subsequent defense of these actions. Yet, Socrates’s argument is flawed and cannot withstand examination, specifically regarding the prima facie duty to sometimes break just agreements. King did not act in a morally impermissible way when he broke the segregation laws of Birmingham…

The lack of action and the incompetence of the HEW was the main reason Title IX was stalled in its start. Inspired by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title IX declared that women were not allowed to be denied on the basis of gender of educational programs by government funded institutions but took years for the same women who actively fought to pass the Title to see it in action. With disgraceful lack of enforcement of both the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the narrow definition…