Legitimacy

reliability of induction to use it? Ideally, we also need to prove the legitimacy of the deduction before using it as a reliable way. We normally don’t do that. Someone may say that deduction is true by logic. Then the same question comes again. How do we know that the logic is reliable except for we intuitively think it is? This may seem to be question begging, but that is how things naturally go if you doubt the legitimacy of the basic methodology we use. You start to doubt everything. In this…

Would you believe that the Toronto Police Service have victimized and discriminated against visible minorities as a result of their tough on crime approach. Many would disagree with such a statement, as the duty of a police officer is to put their life on the line to serve and protect. But at what cost is public safety achieved? The practice of carding is a tactic used by the Toronto Police Service to stop, question, and document personal information on hundreds of thousands of individuals…

Introduction The purpose of this essay is to discuss what the “peaceful rise” means to the Chinese, and why it is the best course of action for China. This essay begins by addressing the historical and traditional concepts that have influenced China’s “peaceful rise.” Next, the essay discusses why a “peaceful rise” is currently the most prudent path for China. Finally, this essay briefly looks at the argument of whether or not China’s rise is peaceful, and its implications. This essay will show…

triumphs and other means to provide authority and legitimacy to their actions. This is closely tied to the adaption of Roman political structures as it was important for the barbarians to remain relatively approved of by the existing Italian population, which formed a much greater percentage of the population than the Germanic tribes. Rothari, the 17th Langobard king, compared himself to Romulus, the 17th king of the Romans, providing legitimacy for his actions of improving the law, which was…

Dr. Toner and Dr. Walter lived in vastly different sociocultural climates, and analysis of the difference in their use of language to describe abortion-seeking women provides insight changes in perspective on one of the fundamental ethical arguments surrounding the abortion dilemma: a woman’s right to her body over the fetus’s right to life. The use of misogynistic language within Dr. Toner’s 1861 article condemning abortion shows his perspective on this dilemma that disregards the ethical…

Within the last 30 years, France has experienced a rapid decline in the legitimacy of asylum which has led to a “guaranteed ‘right’ of protection by their host country.” This was established at the Geneva Convention of 1951 stating that it was a “charitable ‘obligation’ only dependent on the good will of each state” (Simmel 2001)…

The state is a system of authority over a group of people, usually in the arrangement of a formal government, meant to organize the people and resolve conflicts between individuals. This paper will explore the ways the state of nature justifies the creation of the state as the state of nature is the world without a government. The state of nature is the alternative to the state since it lacks a system of authority. Specifically, the Hobbesian state of nature will be used for this argument since…

1. Police discretion when arresting youth allows for the possibility of the issue being resolved outside of the juvenile justice system and provides officers the opportunity to determine the best interests of the youths with which they interact (Class Notes 4/5/16). For example, a police officer could choose to tell youth trespassing at an abandoned building to leave instead of filing charges against them, or he could detain the two teens he found drinking and allow their parents to come pick…

In a study. the pollution rates of heavy metal in topsoil (rage of 0-20 or 0-15cm) of farmland throughout China are collected from studies of publishes papers from the years 2005 to 2014. The relevancy of these papers were described in the study done by Zhang. In total, 612 data records of heavy metal pollution rates in 456 peer-reviewed articles were collected. The result was Cd was ranked as the highest pollution heavy metal that consisted of the ratio of 7.75% Hg, Cu, Ni, and Zn. In total,…

relinquish their unlimited liberty. But this action does not signify the loss of liberty, it simply means that it is now the responsibility of the state to protect these individual liberties. By protecting these liberties the people in the contract give legitimacy to the state, which means a legitimate state can guarantee its sovereignty. If a state doesn’t protect the people’s liberty, then it is not legitimate and could be…