Legitimacy

In 2008 a case was taken by the Supreme Court, that case was called Heller vs The District of Columbia. A special police officer whose name was Dick Anthony Heller had been in the service for awhile. Like all officers he was authorized to carry a handgun while on duty. Later that year he applied for a one-year license for a handgun he wished to keep at home, but his application was denied by the judge. Many cases has have to dealt with gun control, but many have not come in the favor of the…

Although Ancient China and Ancient Egypt's religious beliefs share similarities as being polytheistic and believing in after life, they have more difference than similarities such as the way the belief and the way they believed in the afterlife. The first reason ancient China and ancient Egypt have similarities is by first looking at the similarities such as being polytheistic. Ancient China and Ancient Egypt worshiped many gods. For Egypt by instance, "Egyptians do not worship same…

Political legitimacy is the right and acceptance of authority, meaning that of the government. It involves its citizens’ obedience. Obedience deals with how beneficial the government is to its citizens, like how safe they feel for example. But the question is, how far does the government have to push its citizens before they begin to dislike how they are being treated and then revolt? Furthermore, is the question of how an individual chooses to protest their government? One can make a stand for…

Following the 1967 Arab-Israeli War the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a preeminent organization advocating on behalf the Palestinian people underwent drastic changes. These changes came following the defeat of a coalition of Arab nations in war against Israel known as the June War. In the June War Israel conquered territory from both Jordan and Egypt known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip respectively in which the majority of Palestinian people lived. The PLO’s leadership,…

and rabbis exercised great power, both politically, and socially over the followers of their faith. Political authorities such as kings, feudal lords, and emperors likewise relied on religious authority much of the time in order to establish the legitimacy of their rule. In earliest of pre-industrial societies, political authority was sometimes synonymous with religious authority. The two are often fundamentally at odds, and in need of each other simultaneously…

fell, the state needed to survive and imagining Minjok made tlhis possible. The way he constructed Korean Minjok is as follows. First, he defined the main ethnic group which all Choson people belong to. With Minjok imagination, he claimed Korea’s legitimacy of Manchuria. Second, he related geographical trait to define and confine who Choson, now ‘Han(韓)people’ belong to. Shin’s construction of Korean nation(Minjok). Benedict Anderson defined nation as place which ‘is an imagined political…

Basically, chronicle in medieval Ethiopia used as the main media of information, which it is compared in modern sense with a newspaper and a chronicle with a journalist. All the chronicles produced in the period under discussion with various degree purposefully concerned to portray the ideological orientation of Royalty that means the Ethiopian kings were descendants of the lineage of Judah, Son of David and Solomon who were kings in Jerusalem. As Pankhurst and Marrassini remarked, those…

as “crime”. It is the law enforcements’ job to enforce these laws and to go out and work in the line of duty every day. In the June 2012 issue of Justice Quarterly, Tammy Rinehart Kochel speaks about her study which investigates the effect police legitimacy can have on collective efficacy in neighborhoods. She conducted her studies in the nations of Trinidad and Tobago which served as a suitable place of study away from industrialized nations such as The United States or Great Britain. Well…

The Exploration of Confucianism and Legalism in Ancient China Cultivated in a nation with a rich, five-thousand-year history, ancient Chinese philosophy has long been debated by humanity, especially with regards to the noble myth – human nature. As Chan declared in his book, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, “It can be readily seen that Legalism is entirely incompatible with other schools, especially Confucianism, which is bitterly attacked” (Chan, p.251). It is generally accepted that the…

The environment and population has been so negatively affected that if we continue to treat our planet the way we do and disregard the legitimacy of climate change, the earth will be in great trouble. Some things we can do to help slow down the increasing levels of carbon dioxide and methane is to recycle, bicycle or carpool to our destination, and speak up, as well as be informed, about…