Civil law

Civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines as a peaceful form of political protest. Civil disobedience is used to get an unjust law to change without being violent. Protesters tend to violate the laws which they find to be unjust by breaking the law, such as people of color using white bathrooms during the time of segregation. Some who have influenced history using civil disobedience were Thoreau, Gandhi and King. Those who are against civil…

Laws have become a very indispensable component of every human society and the relevance of laws can never be undermined. Laws are made in a society for the preservation of that society by ensuring orderliness and peaceful co-existence of its members. It also guarantees the sovereignty of the state and its authority. Laws prescribe the conducts and behaviours of people within the society so as to ensure that every member of the society acts in accordance with the supreme interest of the society.…

The article “TAKEN: Under civil forfeiture, Americans who haven’t been charged with wrongdoing can be stripped of their cash, cars, and even homes. Is that all we’re losing?” written by Sarah Stillman, she teaches at yale, a writer for the New York Times, and has been awarded multiple awards for her writing. Under the civil forfeiture or civil seizure the police are allowed to seize assets from drug deals or other criminal activities and use that money to supplement their department 's budget.…

This means that the minority group’s interests are protected under civil rights, and they get to enjoy rights that the majority group enjoys (Horowitz, 2006). For instance, women who are majorly considered as minority groups have the right to abort under the civil rights provided the pregnancy has reached a particular stage. In the case Roe v. Wade where it established that women had the right to privacy that was…

behind the law being debated. The rift between adapting the Constitution in order for it to keep up with changing times and maintaining the original intentions of the framers poses many difficulties for the justices when interpreting the validity of a law in comparison to the Constitution. Because of this dilemma, various theories about how to efficiently interpret the Constitution have been created to help to the justices properly elaborate on the various…

the case study, provide one example of each of the forms that public policies can take: laws, rules or regulations, other implementation decisions, and judicial decisions. Law: Social Security Amendment of 1965 is a public law 89-96. It was created to aid senior citizens with health insurance (Medicare) and to provide health care to indigent population and disabled (Medicaid). Rules/Regulations: Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbid all racial, color, and national origin discrimination.…

13. Explain the Civil Rights Acts. United States courts and legislatures have a reciprocal reliance with each other. In order for a legislature to act, it requires constitutional authority. While courts require legislative/administrative support to utilize court orders and target political support. As Congress initialized equal protection, courts placed court orders on uncooperative schools to support legislative/administrative actions. After Brown v. Board of Education three civil rights acts…

Howard Zinn once said “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Objecting to laws has played a vital part in forming the country we live in today. An act as far back as The Boston Tea Party has been a key part to what has led to what we value here in The United States of America. Zinn, along with many other legendary social activists believe that civil disobedience is essential to bringing about social change in a democracy. A democracy…

them push against your civil duty to do the right thing? The issue in Sophocles’s Antigone is thus: a sibling choosing to follow her heart over the law and a man who chooses the law over his family. There is never a time when choosing between loved ones and the law is simple, but compared to each option, which is more essential? Sophocles uses the Chorus’ commentary, in addition to Creon and Antigone’s equally justified viewpoints, to empathize how familial love and civil duties are equally…

September 2017 Civil Liberties V Civil Rights With the creation of the constitution, checks and balances, and more importantly the initial ten amendments, came the proposal of civil liberties and civil rights. Although they may seem similar, they have been given different names for many reasons. Civil liberties are like civil rights in that they define the things people should be able to do and have and are primarily focused on the rights of the individual. However, unlike civil rights, civil…