Laws of war

rights. The government of our country makes it their obligation to keep the people living in their country safe. America also makes sure other countries are safe as well. Whenever they hear or see a country is going through a tough time, whether it be war, famine, or dictatorship, they are almost always the first ones on the scene to restore that country to the peaceful place it once…

Individual privacy and national security are both important to citizens. Citizens have rights that back up their privacy called the Bill of Rights. The national security has its place in the law to protect the United States and its citizen from dangerous threats. The primary conflict between individual privacy and national protection is that the safety of the citizens is what bears upon whether their privacy is private or compromised. As an individual, citizens have the ability to enforce their…

Landmark Decisions of the Supreme Court Since the late 1700s, the Supreme Court has been operating as the highest federal court in the United States of America. “Defined by Article III, Section I of the Constitution, the Supreme Court operates under nine Justices, who are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Each Justice holds office for life as long as they are well behaved,” (“Supreme Court Procedures”) The Supreme Court functions by deciding what case to choose,…

Effect of the Women’s Right Movement "Men their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less." (Anthony, 1868). After the Civil War that was an uncompromising differences between the freedom, race, and slave over the power of the government to forbid slavery in the territories that had not yet become states, there are many movements had stated. For example, fighting about the passage of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and nineteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, struggles to…

I would say a peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. I say this because if you're being peaceful what is there to be negative about? There would be no reason for a negative impact on society if it is a peaceful resistance to laws. For example in the Muhammad Ali's Anti-War Stand Was Civil Disobedience, Not Draft Dodging article Ali is nonaggressive and is peaceful about the situation, doesn't have an uproar. Although people disagree about the situation there was nothing…

officials and we the people of the United States are embedded in the failing cycle of migrants entering our country illegally. Reformed immigration laws have been passed but stand ineffective since international immigrants continue to pass our borders without being held accountable for breaking our laws. Unlike the United States, Canada’s strict immigration laws are enforced and citizenships are still easily obtained. I am disgusted with the number of illegal immigrants that have crossed our…

In International law there is a huge role of Actors which are held responsible and are bound by the law but these actors that bear the responsibility are different in IHL and IHRL. Both laws have slightly different rules of determining the actors who are responsible. Both laws have differences which are in terms of provision alteration for protection of people and groups, tools to determine group or individuals more bare to the violations, especially in war or conflict zones. Minor differences…

the present democracy in Athenian society, the previous democrats of Athens had been put to exile by the oligarchs and they became infamously known as the ‘Thirty tyrants’. They were aristocrats who ruled Greece after the loss of the Peloponnesian war and were unpopular with the polis. Socrates introduces Chaerophon, a democrat who had asked the oracle if one was smarter than Socrates, and states that he aided in the exile of the Thirty tyrants: “Chaerophon… a good democrat who played his part…

paragraph will aid in discussing the agencies’ importance, interest in the policy, and possible views of the proposal: The Department of Justice is an agency of the United States that is focused on imposing the law and safeguarding the nation and its interest according to the American law system. In essence, the department wants to: 1) make sure the public is safe from foreign and domestic threats 2) provide states with federal powers in helping to stop and regulate crime 3) provide just and…

conflict-of-laws rule specifying that certain national acts take priority over any state acts that conflict with national law” (Ill, 2012, p. 1). This clause takes the lead of Article XII of the Articles of Confederation which stated: [E]very state shall abide by the determinations of the united states in congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. The Supremacy Clause basically says that the Supreme Court defines the constitution and creates the laws…