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Sovereignty is the country’s right of being able to run itself without any external interference (TheFreeDictionary, n.d). Many countries strive to keep their sovereignty through methods like strengthening their armed forces, advances in technology and National Service. National service, this is not a term that is known only in Singapore. In fact, most countries worldwide has either voluntary or conscript military services (CIA, n.d), to bolster the strength and size of a country’s armed forces…

Brandeis Louis and Samuel Warren in their article talked about the right to privacy, the entitlement to have full protection in person and in property is a fundamental principle for everyone. They acknowledged that the principle is unfixed, and it has been reconstructed time by time because of political, social, and economic changes. (Warren and Brandeis 193). In short, the authors illustrated the development of common law about the life and property which always meet the new standards of our…

Earth. Protecting the human rights of every individual residing in this world would take a substantial amount of time, energy, funding and laws to be achievable by all nations. “All human rights are indivisible, whether they are civil and political rights, such as the right to life, equality before the law and freedom of expression; economic, social and cultural rights, such as the rights to work, social security, and education, or collective rights, such as the rights to development and…

ideas of the “common good” and “human rights” that seem to elude societies all around the world. The common good refers to promoting a positive action that promotes society as a whole. Human rights refer to every human being, if they be wealth or poor to have the same rights as each other and that those rights can never be taken away, that every human soul is equal. In today’s world, we can see the struggles of trying to live together, that the civil rights movement is rising to the surface of…

the Equal Employment Directive begins the evaluation by examining the Directive and its 21 Articles from start to finish, starting with the 37 recitals in the preamble. The basis on Article 6 TEU and on the fundamental rights and freedoms established in the Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is specifically mentioned, preparatory acts and references to the replacements of previous directives are made, especially in Article 2, in which the replacement of the Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27…

celebrate their day of independence, when they were being robbed from natural right. Women were bond to man being the wage earners, and were not allowed to be anything but a house wife and mother. History changes everyday, but if you sit down to compare situation they are based on ignorance, and fear of the unknown. Bartolome de Las Casas excerpt from History of the Indies shows how Indians were robbed of their rights and thrown into horrible conditions without any misery. Indians were not given…

The United States 16th President Abraham Lincoln gave an exceptionally good First Inaugural Address on Monday, March 4, 1861. Lincoln’s main goal was preserving the union, and he talks a lot about this in his First Inaugural Address. What made Lincoln such a good president is that he had a personality like no other, which causes his address to be astonishing . His premeditated speech definitely persuaded minds to think in his perspective. Lincoln announces that his main focus is to keep from…

freedom to live a prosperous. Freedom allows us to live for ourselves and without it we need no longer to live. We live for ourselves, we we humans need control of our own lives, freedom has brought us reason to live. Humans fought immensely for the right to live a life as we desire. With freedom we provide ourselves a motivation to achieve personal gratitude for who we are and will become. In “I Just Wanna Be Average” freedom is represented by having the chance to be who you want to be.…

In the story “Harrison Bergeron”, handicaps are given to people who may be able to possess higher authority with their intelligence. The government assumes that handicaps will create a more equal society in which one individual does not have more power/intelligence over another individual. “The minute people start cheating on laws, what do you think happens to society?” (P.23) Once laws are broken and are no longer enforced, the result would be a chaotic society. Laws are used to form a society…

“Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.” —(“Hillary Clinton”) The fundamental point of the civil rights movement was to give everyone equal rights disregarding skin color, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, disability or age. The point of the development which advanced in the 1960's was to guarantee that the privileges fairly are preserved and are secured by the law. Social equality…