Civil procedure

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…

Rousseau, on the other hand, theorized that there were two types of inequality: natural and moral (1:1). Natural inequality is one which can easily be defined by age, health, strength, and the like (1:1). Moral, or political inequality, however, originates from society through the consent of man, and creates privilege or oppression of man based on possessions, money, honor and power; this idea is consistent with Smith’s observation of inequality (8/31). Before man was civilized he was in a…

Keep Your Freedom Most people assume, since they live in the United States, that they are free, and have the freedom to do as they please as long as what they are doing abides by federal and/or state law. But how free are we, really? If you look deep enough, Suzanne Collins illustrates how restricted our freedom in the United States are. Throughout the novel, The Hunger Games, Collins is telling her readers that the government will destroy most means of personal freedom of the citizens. In…

prestigious history of United States of America; it has been a battle ground and at the forefront of civil rights. Throughout history we have seen everything from slavery to women’s suffrage to African American civil rights. One such civil liberty that is being brought into question is marriage. As quoted from the Washington Post “Americans respect marriage, not only as a crucial institution of civil society but the fundamental building block of all human civilization” (Anderson, 2013). Even…

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Primary Source Analysis Martin Luther King, Jr. seldom had time to answer his critics. But on April 16, 1963, he was confined to the Birmingham jail, imprisoned for participating in civil rights demonstrations. “Alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell,” King pondered a letter titled A Call for Unity that fellow clergymen had published pressing him to drop his crusade of nonviolent resistance and to leave the battle for racial equality to the…

transcendentalism and during times of civil rights, were strongly spoken by people such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X. Self-Reliance was the idea proposed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1840’s that tried to…