Laws of war

king should only live off his own income, he should train his subjects to be obedient, not mistreat them and then punish them, he shouldn't invent or revive totally antiquated laws, and he shouldn't impose unfair fines. Instead, he should imitate the Macarians, another people who live near Utopia. The Macarians have this law saying that the treasury can only have a certain amount of gold in it at one time. That way, the king can never just spend all his time trying to gain lots of money. The…

The United States constitution divides the federal government into three branches, Legislative, Judicial and Executive. The founders of the Constitution divided the governmental power between the states, the federal government, and between the three branches at the federal level in order to prevent tranny. The authority and responsibilities of the three branches are not well defined by the constitution. The founders intended for the federal government to have limited powers and the states to…

other. Over time, the codes of law became an integral part of their society. The best preserved of these Mesopotamian collection of codes of law was the Code of Hammurabi. The Hammurabi Code reveals a Mesopotamian society that had a justice system that was strict and touched on various spheres of life and crimes such as burglary, social classes, discharge of justice by the courts, public officiating, land and commerce among others . Hammurabi’s code shaped Mesopotamian law and culture while…

severely reducing the penalties to small fines. US law is changing toward the eventual legalization of marijuana in the majority of states and on the federal level. The end on the prohibition on marijuana is a change in the right direction, despite what its opposition from an older conservative crowd may argue. This is a positive change for the nation because it would increase state tax revenue, lower federal and state government spending on the war on drugs, would hurt the drug cartels of…

This group of laws in Mississippi was clearly passed to suppress former slaves. The authors were most likely white men, whom previously had slaves. Although this document did not give much hope for former slaves at the time, some sections of the document seem to be beneficial to all. This first law in the document, the Apprentice Law, was made to apprentice orphans to masters. This gave orphans a home, but it probably wasn’t always a good home. The next law, the Vagrancy Law, made it so that…

the United States government. The Judicial branch evaluates laws with the court system under its wing. The Legislative branch makes the laws with the Congress, Senate and House of Representatives representing this branch. The Executive branch carries out the laws, this branch is controlled by the President, Vice…

Rousseau built on the idea that men are born as blank slates, and that it is the environment and society that influences our moral actions. This is clearly contradictory to Hobbes narrative that humans in their natural state experience a state of war. I feel that while Rousseau raises valid criticisms of Hobbes’ work, and indeed, the debate of whether the behaviour of man is inherited or moulded by society is a debate that is still highly prolific today. Indeed, this is known as the “Nature…

government. There is along these lines no progressively unrivaled, coercive force that can resolve the disputes, authorize law, or request the system like there is in household legislative issues. In International Relations, anarchy is generally acknowledged as the beginning stage for international relations theory. This means there are no international governing body makes laws to direct the relations between states and no supreme executive stands prepared to repress the activities of a…

approach to international law. Monism and dualism are theories describing the relationship between international law and domestic law. Monism’s doctrine of incorporation states that international law automatically becomes a part of domestic law without any express acts of adoption by the state. This is because in monism, international law and domestic law are viewed as one body.…

War and conflict have been a part of the human experience for most of recorded history, and many scholars use the concept of just war to analyse wars in their own time and in the past, and to consider how to create long lasting peace. Just war theory forms the basis of much of international law today, and still can be used to analyse modern day conflict, such as the Russian Federation’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Just war theory in its most coherent form was first discussed by Saint Thomas…