European Court of Justice

was in power and millions were victimized. Klaus Barbie has been known for his actions, Against all humanity of innocent French Jews. Even young children have been targeted by the Nazi. The Difference we can see here in our Canadian, juridical court system compared to Germany is that we have laws here in Canada that protects us from any unfair treatment which is written in the Canadian charter of freedom. Which states in section 12 “everyone has the right to not to be subjected to any cruel l…

Introduction History has been scattered with great empires that rise and fall. Modern examples such as the USSR or Hitler’s shortly realized Nazi European Empire, and ancient examples such as Alexander the Greats Greek Empire, all shared the same trait of covering vast amounts of territory whilst encompassing different minorities, majorities, religions and races. The Roman Empire is one such empire that stretched from England to Egypt and covered the entire circumference of the Mediterranean Sea…

countries that created and used the Enlightenment ideas of equality, began to mistreat and state that non-whites were unequal. “Your new-caught sullen peoples,/ Half-devil and half-child,” Rudyard Kipling says in the poem. These two lines showed how the Europeans looked down on the non-whites, describing them as “half-devil and half child”. This poem justified how it was the white man's duty to civilize and educate the “uncivilized”. A prime example of this is how imperializing countries…

that the Constitution presses against congress in order to protect the people's freedom. If the court system happens to be self-ruling and catches a person breaking the law, the protection of the person's righteousness is no longer there. The Supreme Court's job is seen to be higher up than the legislative branch due to the Supreme Court has to decide if one's actions were unconstitutional. The courts are there to clarify the laws and make sure that the other branches, legislative in particular…

steel industries reminded many of the European class warfare that lead to the communist uprising in Russia. Labor Unions were still fighting for better pay, hours, working conditions but companies were portraying them as radicals, feeding the fear. Coincidently a series of terror threats began in 1919 around the same time as the labor strikes. Mail bombs were discovered by post office officials. The intended recipients were John D. Rockefeller, Supreme Court Justice Holmes, and other powerful…

Joseph Stiglitz in his extract concurs that the environment is being stained and the people that are being effected the most are the ones who are underprivileged. He further justifies his idea by giving examples of two industrial tycoons in the world; China and the United States (US). Both, he claims, race against each other on carbon emissions but China has won, although the US contributed more to this issue by almost more than a quarter carbon emissions since 1750. He adds on a global scale…

On March 4, 1681, William Penn received a charter from King Charles II to establish the colony of Pennsylvania. He would establish a government like no other ‘experimenting’ with liberal values such as religious tolerance, self governance, and separation of church and state homogenous with those values embedded in the United States Declaration of Independence. Countless other milestones between 1607 and 1745 have influenced the development of an American, democratic society yet his majesty’s…

Native Americans have been oppressed, discriminated against, and mistreated since the Europeans first came to America. Countless Native Americans have died at the hands of white settlers. One of the worst times of their mistreatment, however, was during the removal from their homelands to the land east of the Mississippi. The “Nunna dual Tsuny,” as the Cherokee call it, refers to trails they walked during the forced mass movement of Cherokee people to Indian Territory in Arkansas and Oklahoma.…

the “Walford” case), Lord Ackner pointed out that “the concept of a duty to carry on negotiations in good faith is inherently repugnant to the adversarial position of the parties when involved in negotiations”. To analyse whether British courts and Hong Kong courts should follow the Walford position, or to follow the general principle of good faith, I believe we should first understand both principles and their intentions behind. According to Lord’s Ackner in the Walford case, negotiating with…

firing squad. At the beginning and every year since, there has been a continuing debate over capital punishment and its legality, morality, functionality, and economic practicality. While some support the death penalty, citing it as a source of justice for the families of victims and a sure way to stop murderers, others cite multiple factors…