Legitimacy

John Winthrop, an English puritan, lives out purpose as God’s advocate for Christianity. His synopsis of his view of God is that "God Almighty in his most holy and wise providence, hath so disposed of the condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity; others mean and in subjection" (Griffith 16). Winthrop’s perception of God and God’s religious plan is that He is of most importance and the people’s Christian savior. He believes…

Argument #2 Social Contract Social contracts are an individual 's moral and ethical political obligations, which are dependent upon a contract or agreement. It addresses questions of the origin of the society, and the legitimacy of the authority the state holds over an individual. For Locke, since the state of nature is a state of liberty where people recognize the presence of the Law of Nature and, therefore, do not harm one another, the state of war differs from the state of nature. Property…

Following the second world war, the European economy and infrastructure were severely devastated. Europe had the mindset of avoiding any further damage and deaths in their land. Leading them to begin moving forward towards a more peaceful Europe. Over decades of treaty making and attempts to collaborate with one another, eventually, the Maastricht Treaty was created in 1992. This new treaty was put into effect in 1993 providing unity to twenty-seven member states. Giving the world the birth of…

In her article "To all the Girls I 've Rejected", Jenifer Delahunty Britz appeals to a broad audience primarily composed by current, future and pasted college students. Although not limited to these demographics, the article primarily aims to console people who have experienced a rejected application. In lieu of conversations about this very personal and sometimes troubling subject, Britz attempts to console and explain why these rejections happen so often to such great candidates. It 's clear…

Executive Summary Reducing Police Related Injury/Death By: Aaron Miller, Enrique Reboyras & Evan McKernan Introduction: Today, the tension between the public and law enforcement has caused controversy and the outbreak of riots. The cause of this tension stems from many sources. Law enforcement officers must use the training and tools given to them to apprehend a suspect or suppress a threat. The quality of training and the diversity of tools provided to an officer may be the difference…

(Cozby & Bates 2015). The final validity is the construct validity, which is the legitimacy of the study’s operationalizations. The study is based on previous written literature and whatever was answered on the questionnaire. Other limitations of the study were that it focused on the negative personality traits such as neuroticism, instead of others such as agreeableness. Another would be reactivity. The legitimacy of the questionnaire can be tainted by the participant’s awareness of being…

Outcomes determine that cognitive ability predicts the magnitude to which people participate in CWB. Moreover, the predictive legitimacy of the cognitive ability test was on par with that reported for integrity tests in foreseeing wide-ranging, externally reported CWB. This can be seen as another advantage to why cognitive abilities test are the best tool for selection and assessment…

focus on prevention rather than direct prevention. “In the 381,704 frisks in 2011, meanwhile, officers seized a total of only 780 guns, for a “success” rate of 1.9 percent for all frisks and a 1.1 percent for all stops.” (108) With these numbers, a legitimacy of this tactic is hard to rationalize. But like most things, there can not always be…

This article informs about the influences of state punishment and private prisons. Although state punishment is an important aspect of either prison system, this particular article opens up for more questions and ideologies of the private prison systems to occur. The main question that this article argues is why both the public and prison systems are capable of falling so far below the obligations that they must fulfill? This particular study looks into this question through inferring a deep…

Additionally, when Vargas came to power in 1930, recently appointed Minister of Education and Public Health “Campos declared the recent revolution to be an unprecedented opportunity to change fundamentally Brazilian society through the elevation of national health and educational standards,” which led to the implementation of more drastic eugenic techniques in Brazil (Williams 53). Furthermore, when Capanema was replaced Campos as minister “the [first Vargas] regime fully integrated cultural…