Natural and legal rights

and property; something they are not. Humans should treat animals with more respect and realize their value as individual sentient creatures. We as humans should also speak up for those who cannot. The Animal Legal Defense has sponsored a petition that states the following: “Deprived of legal protection, animals are defenseless against exploitation and abuse by humans. Through the animal…

Tarynne Poe Mrs. Dewhirst Language Arts III February _,2016 Gay Rights--What’s wrong with Being Happy? “The only difference between my gay friends and I [sic] is who we choose to love (“Pink Quotes”).Homosexuals should be able to have the same rights as heterosexuals do. Gay marriage has been widely discussed over the years. It’s been considered taboo for centuries but is now gaining acceptance from people. As of 2014, there were currently 37 states that legalized gay…

women, especially married women, as part of the family unit and not as citizens themselves (Swidorski 103). When drafting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, many lawmakers failed to consider the implications these amendments would have for the rights of women, black or white. Women thus had to prove that they were not only individual citizens who warranted consideration under the law, but also that they were…

fairness offered to the residing population; we have been seen as the land of opportunity and liberty. The Bill of Rights and Constitution entails much of the credit for this ideal of American Democracy, but more specifically, the Due Process mentioned within the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Due Rights Clause grants protection to the people from the government within the legal system. Originally, the Due Process applied towards the federal level, but was later extended to the State…

first case study is on Karen Ann Quinlan, one of the first cases of euthanasia that had significantly impacted the legal debate in the United States on the right to die. Karen Ann Quinlan in April of 1975 slipped into a coma after she consumed diazepam, dextropropoxyphene, and alcohol while on a crash diet and became the center of a national debate on the definition of life and the right to die. On September 12th 1975 Karen’s father and guardian filled a suit when the doctors denied his request…

been and still is frowned upon from many aspects of society, and is known as a cry for help, but as of February 6, 2016, the legal ban on assisted suicide…

purity of the race and heterosexuality, were still in people’s mind and common in many societies. Many traditional norms were still spreading and part of societies. The article The Continuing Struggle against Genocide: Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Rights by D. Marie Ralstin- Lewis, written in 2005, analyzes how the weight of women’s choices over their bodies were limited in the science domain which was influenced by politics and the eugenic movement between the 1960s and the 1980s. Another…

“Two Treaties on government” Locke expressed his position about the country, government and the rights of human being. In his philosophical works he criticized the idea of absolute monarchy as the power given by God. In the “Second Treatise on Government” Locke tries to understand the essence of state and government. Since the beginning of human history, people were free and equal in their rights, although this equality was merely formal than tangible. Locke expresses the idea that people…

One of the most critical concerns of the current modern world is the topic on the rights of gays and in particular the rights of gay marriage. We see in nations such as Russia and India where sexual intercourse is punishable by imprisonment and death which completely goes against tolerant beliefs. The United States as of recently, the US Supreme Court made gay marriage legal in all fifty states as of June 26, 2015. It is not a surprise that this event occurred because there has been an expanding…

especially alarming that water privatization has sharply increased in the past decades while groundwater levels have sharply decreased in some areas. , While some see privatization as a solution to the collective action problems common to many finite natural resources, privatization poses specific issues for water due to its life-sustaining abilities. In this essay I will…