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    Essay On Search Warrant

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    the search warrant must show probable cause that the items to be seized are connected with criminal activity. Second the officer must show probable cause that the items to be seized are in the location to be searcher. Also a neutral and detached magistrate must authorize the search warrant. To sum this all up, I believe that any search warrant that an officer is trying to get authorized. Must make sure that they have a liable reason to even want to do the search. Whether it is in connection to a…

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    of the nation, promote modernism and spirituality through his position of prestige amongst the elite. In this excerpt, he has encounters with Wang, an everyday businessmen, Lao Dong, the owner of the inn where he stayed, and Shen Dongzao, a local magistrate. Lao Can himself, birds and cages, and the weather all serve as symbols to promote the author’s argument of a solution to long-reigning political…

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    As a commissioner, I help lead events for my community and serve as a magistrate in Teen Court. Some events we have held include a job fair, which helped youth in Centennial find places of work for the summer, the National Alliance on Mental Illness walk, for which we raised over two hundred dollars, an Earth Day celebration…

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    Today, people punished by law get sent to jail, but imagine unique circumstances where punishments from the past were allowed to be used in present day. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an American classic. Set in New England, Hawthorne brings in the aspects of a pioneer settlement during the 1700s. Though the book was written in the 1800s, it more closely relates to life in the 1700s. Religion played a very important role in society during the 1700s. The ministers and…

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    Nevertheless, the more power the government has, the more tempted the magistrate in the government will likely to abuse their power and capitalize in their favor. Rousseau explains that there are three forms of government. When most of the people are magistrates, the government turns into a form of democracy. If less than half of the people are magistrates, aristocracy appears. The government is monarchical when there is one magistrate left. Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggests the smaller states are…

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    FUNCTIONS 1.DISTRICT COLLECTOR(SHRI RAJ KUMAR YADAV,IAS): District collector is an IAS(Indian Administrative Service) officer who has a myriad of responsibilities under his jurisdiction(district in charge).His main functions include: Etymologically, the name collector stems from the traditional role of a district “collector” whose primary responsibility is to assess and collect revenue in his/her area of jurisdiction. Also the district collector is responsible for the maintenance of law…

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    Scarlet Letter Antagonist

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    she had lost; more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom.” The magistrates let her punishment be this public shaming, that the Puritans seem to do beautifully. The older puritan woman sought to judge her saying things like, “”This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die…” The puritans even judged the magistrate's decision, those of which they think very highly of. According to a puritan woman the magistrates were,”...merciful overmuch..” and they should have, “”...aAt the…

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    Du Huailiang Case

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    Du Huailiang: Adultery That Brought Disaster At the end of the case of “Du Huailiang: Adultery That Brought Disaster,” two characters are punished. The murder Du Huailiang was beheaded even though his paramour Ms. Li was strangled. Why did Ms. Li receive this particular punishment although she did not partake in the crime itself? The answer is simple: Ms. Li committed adultery, a crime which was considered immoral during Qing Dynasty. Today, people are likely to believe that Ms. Li’s sentencing…

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    century, the republicans were controlled by aristocrats called patricians (Lendring). What this did is caused great tensions with two groups: the poor people, who had to request to a patrician judge against random decisions made by patrician magistrates, and the rich non-patricians, who were supposed to fight in battle and pay taxes, they were not allowed a vote in the decision about war and peace and not able to manage the spending of their money (Lendering). In 490 BC these two…

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    American Women Dbq

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    Women accused of witchcraft had an economic bias. One historian believes that those accused of witchcraft were the “-moderately poor” not the poorest women(Karlsen Ch. 3, Paragraph 1). Eunice Cole, for example, was not dirt poor but not middle class filed to receive poor relief yet was denied. Eunice was accused of being a witch after rebuking Hampton about how a man in the same economic status as her was receiving aid. Most women were economically dependent on the male members of their family.…

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