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    with whatever it is that the western person wants, even when they do not comprehend what it is that they are agreeing with, in order for them to leave and continue on with their own business. Thus, a false confession could be made. Lester (1973) states that Aboriginal people will often plead guilty, even when they are innocent, as they are frightened of the Australian legal system and want to get out of court quicker. Justice Forster drew attention to the phenomenon known as gratuitous…

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    is spread over various resources ranging from hospitals to aged care facilities, rural health care and ongoing research, a large percentage of the economic stimulus and growth within the health care system still comes from the Commonwealth Government, followed by the State and then privatized providers. Tabbners (2016) Although, Australians are mainly still using hospital based care and care delivered by other professionals, new developments in the models of care are emerging ranging from…

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    Civil Disobedience Mahatma Gandhi states, “Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless or, which is the same thing, corrupt” (Gandhi). Furthermore, within the dystopian world that Aldous Huxley proposes in “Brave New World,” the government is diminishing due to corruption. The society full of enslaved people are forced into conformity and dehumanization. These schemes that are conducted are pioneered by Ford, the Controller, and enforced by the Director. It is until…

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    Court. As it is the final court of appeal therefore reintegrates the point that the power of appointment is held within the body of the High Court. As the Australian Federal system consists of national court and a court system for each individual state and the two territories. It will highlight the power comparison between the two government bodies. The High Court’s decision is the final say; therefore the examination of what would occur if the High Court found reasoning for a statute to be…

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    Canada has grown as a nation and has become very independent starting from July 1st, 1867 when they were just a small British Colony, to today where they are their own developed and independent nation. In the past Canada would fight in wars and battles because the British were involved, for example in WWI Canada was expected to take part in the war because the British were involved. Canada was just seen as a small part of an enormous empire. Although this carried on for sometime, Canada matured…

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    this influenced his political and social thesis. Hobbes believed man was selfish and self-serving, and that its natural state was war. People will fight each other for three reasons: in defense of themselves, family, and livestock, to make themselves masters of others and their belongings, and in response to the status or slight of themselves, their family, clan, or nation. This state of nature would produce a world in which there was no security. Thus there are three laws of nature, or lex…

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    They finally became an independent nation on January 1, 1901. Australia became apart of the Commonwealth and a constitutional monarchy. A constitutional monarchy because it was established on a written constitution and because Queen Victoria was head of state at the time. One very important document is the Australian Constitution because of the fact that it states the rights and roles of states that are connected to the Commonwealth. Without Parliament the Australian Constitution…

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    other brothers and sisters were isolated from other children and instead he was instilled with personal responsibility. Then at age 14 Samuel Adam’s entered into Harvard University where when he graduated 1740 at Harvard University would publicly state the thesis that “lawful to resist…

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    Growing up a Caucasian, upper middle-class child in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I remember experiencing a sense of perplexity every time I visited my neighborhood grocery store. While one side of the store served a demographic population similar to my own, the other side catered to the low-income, predominately African American population located in the adjacent neighborhood. My grocery store represented the diversity of my city, causing me to question why such diversity did not exist in my…

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    4. Should actors other than states have full sovereignty? Why? Sovereignty of the state is a property of the state independently of the power of other states to exercise their functions on its territory and abroad, in international communication. The sovereignty of the state is manifested in the supremacy of state power, in its unity and independence. In the literal sense, the word "sovereignty", derived from the Latin word supraneitas (from supra - above), means that property of power, by…

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