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Multiple European countries insisted that their citizens belong to a state funded and run church, but not here in America. The Founding Fathers wrote that essentially the Government cannot establish (create) a national religion. America’s Founding Fathers did not…

use of the death penalty lead to the first suspension of the death penalty in June 1972, but that did not last long. In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled that if a state followed guideline…

Weber specifies formal and substantive rationality in terms of law making (legislation) and law finding (adjudication) as the two central aspects of law. Weber categorizes law making and law finding processes based on their rationality and formality. This leads to a classification of law as rational or irrational according to either their formal or substantive aspects. As a result, a fourfold ideal-typical types of law emerges; formally rational, formally irrational, substantively rational and…

Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware they never decided to leave the union. On May 1861, Lincoln announced Martial Law and had the entire board of police including the Baltimore mayor. Lincoln was imprisoned many Congressmen including the Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney for questioning his judgements. Lincoln was having all the publishers of his memoirs arrested in 1863. The Confederacy proclaimed the first president, Jefferson Davis. He was a US senator from the state of Mississippi. Davis…

spread to others, and in God creating the world and all life forms (the Creation), since it is a part of the Bible. Charles Darwin's belief of evolution clashes with the Creation, a belief of Fundamental Evangelical Protestants. This clash was taken to court on July 10, 1925, because in March 1925, Tennessee made teaching evolution…

“The mansa reserved the exclusive right to dispense justice and to tax both local and international trade … Mali prospered from taxes collected from its citizens, and all goods brought in and out of the Empire were heavily taxed while all gold nuggets belonged to the King.” (David) The mansa was a very clear dictatorial figure as he expended justice through his own martial law system, and he held higher authority than any judicial court. The mansa also decided on tax policies and how the…

For example, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been Justice of Supreme Court of the United States since 1993. Today, more women grow and learn, encouraged and empowered to do all and to be all they can be in this society. Furthermore, it is argued that women are making decisions more effectively than men. In America…

Emphasis on Human Trafficking in the US Human trafficking is often the term used when talking about modern day slavery, the third largest global criminal enterprise (Tully,1). Around the word there are over 20 million people being trafficked, with the average age being 13. Slavery was made illegal during the civil war era, when the emancipation proclamation was signed in 1863, and America has been working it’s way to a better future by putting this time in the past. The fact is, although slavery…

This reliance on a slave based economy stunted efforts in favour of freedom for African Americans. It wasn’t until 1808 that the importing of slaves was banned (Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), 2015), which served only to drive up the market for those already in America. By 1860 and the onset of the Civil War there were an estimated four million black slaves in the country. Resulting from the Civil War it was appealed that…

together for just reconciliation with Indigenous people. The Week of Prayer has been held annually since 1991, spanning a week from 27 May, the date of the 1967 Referendum and ends on 3 June, the anniversary of the historic Mabo decision of the High Court of Australia. Henceforth, The Council encourages all to make sincere commitments for reconciliation of Indigenous Australians, by including Indigenous Australians for religious service, establishing charity programs to combat inequalities…