Dissent

disadvantages of one-party government are internal dissent and disenfranchisement of citizens. Just because a particular party may be the majority does not mean that all of its members are in complete harmony concerning their ideologies or policies they want to see implemented. Often times there are defectors within the camp due to the emergence of a particular candidate up for leadership or a particular policy of which there is disagreement. This internal dissent is evidenced by the recent…

Senior military leaders should not publically criticize under any circumstances. There are opportunities for military leaders to disagree with civilian leaders and resign if they feel compelled to do so. Military leaders have an obligation to provide sound military advice to civilian leaders. Military leaders should disagree if they believe a policy is flawed but must carry out that policy without engaging the public if it is not changed (Owens, 79). Officers that opt to engage the public…

The court case, “District of Columbia vs. Heller” was a lawsuit filed against the District of Columbia for supposedly, infringing upon the rights protected by the second amendment. The suit was filed by Dick Heller, a police officer in Washington, DC. In an attempt to lower the crime rates, DC placed a ban on all handguns. The chief of police was allowed to give licenses to own handguns for a year, but denied most applicants. After heller and several others were denied, they brought the issue up…

Oceania, the nation featured in Nineteen Eighty Four, is an authoritarian state which constantly monitors its people and immediately suppresses any dissent through the use of Thought Police and its “Ministry of Love”. However, despite the use of these institutions to directly oppress the people, the language of Oceania itself is used in suppressing dissent, with concepts newspeak and doublethink passively controlling the people with little effort on the side of the ruling party. Many critics…

it must be protected. This includes the origins of the need for privacy protection, his interpretation of it and its limitations. While nearly 40 years passed between his seminal article and Olmstead, Brandeis echoed these themes in his vehement dissent against Justice Taft’s majority opinion. Taft’s decision goes to the core of Brandeis’s Right of Privacy argument when he rejects common-law privacy protection for telephone messages, noting the need for “direct legislation” by Congress. (Solove…

The complexity of the human psyche fascinates many psychoanalysts, including Sigmund Freud. He developed one theory about the human psyche and divided it into three parts: the id, superego, and ego. "According to Freud's model of the psyche, the id is the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories, the super-ego operates as a moral conscience, and the ego is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the…

Justice Stephen Breyer Justice Stephen Breyer has been on the Supreme Court for almost 22 years. He was confirmed to the court by the Senate on June 29, 1994. Justice Breyer’s confirmation was not a surprise considering how highly qualified he was, as well as, how highly others thought of him. For most of Breyer’s adult life he has had an influential role in the legal field. This paper will summarize Justice Stephen Breyer’s early life through today. We will also analyze his jurisprudence in…

These normative structures are social or cultural norms that contribute to structural active ignorance those that strive for and value agreement and consensus rather than remaining open to dissent and resistance. Medina further expands on this by requiring epistemic friction for epistemic resistance and notes that it’s especially effective when it is aimed at particulars rather than generalizations. Medina explains that insensitivity to the…

The Court “granted certiorari to determine whether a city’s decision to take property for the purpose of economic development satisfies the ‘public use’ requirement of the Fifth Amendment.” The United States Supreme Court agreed with the result in the lower courts. The Supreme Court held that economic development can constitute “public use” within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause to justify a local government’s exercise of its power of eminent domain to take private property.…

After burning down Anne’s house, she convinces herself everything is okay because God will let her into heaven, “Thou hast a house on high erect / Fram'd by that mighty Architect…” (43-44). As previously asserted, Bradstreet is also a subtle voice of dissent because she shows God’s immorality with her phrases of plea to a deity that won’t respond nor help.…