Subject-matter jurisdiction

fair and effective rule, while not neglecting the one (the fall of the state’s system) or the other (the citizenry). Foucault emphasises that the art of governing, is one which most prominently entails the states control over the behaviour of the subjects it governs. What is modernity? Modernity, in accordance with the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics (2009), is stated as the “view of historical progression as a series of stages, reflecting intellectual, technological, economic, and…

Freedom isn’t free. It’s an ideal that has to be fought for. Freedom is won with determination, hard work, and tears. The framers of the constitution understood this and created the United States Constitution to protect the people’s freedom. In this document, the founders agreed that the new, American government would stand to protect the rights of all United States citizens. The Constitution begins with the Preamble. In the beginning, some people were wary of the preamble. These wary people…

The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution gives a clear guideline of the citizenship, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” This definition of citizenship makes corporation personhood incompatible, therefore, invalidating the notation that corporations’ speech is protected by the…

However, the problems do not reside with the people who persist on trying to come in to America but the process of doing so. The policies to obtain a visa should be changed because the process last too long. Trying to receive U.S. citizenship holds in a matter of who gets lucky. The immigration policies need to be changed due to very strict policies for becoming a citizen in the United States, and many parents come illegally with children causing fear of deportation and other complications for…

treatment orders in legal, ethical and NSW Health Policy contexts to show the rationale of a cto and the powers behind this treatment order. Involuntary Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) are sectioned under the mental health legislation of each jurisdiction in Australia. CTOs are a legal document which gives authority to a mental health team to give coercive treatment to consumers with a mental illness while still living at home in the community. The consumers with persistent or severe mental…

University authorities have introduced the new instructional policy, the so-called “English as a medium of instruction” or EMI. In this study, the general working definition of EMI is “the use of the English language to tech academic subjects in countries or jurisdictions where the first language (L1) of the majority of the population is not English (Dearden, 2014, p. 2).” Additionally, EMI has two basic constituents of its own, which are contents…

Freedom of speech is an issue that transcends time. In a recent and controversial case, Maclean’s magazine was accused of publishing hateful and Islamophobic content that, (from the complainant’s point of view) allowed for no opportunity to be countered. There are parallels between John Stuart Mill’s work On liberty and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms enacted by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on what boundaries to place on such a precious liberty. Both generally conclude that a…

their worldwide income. iii. Reduces regulatory and administrative burdens for both the government and the tax payer. Disadvantages of a Territorial Tax System i. Kenyan firms could be compelled to shift greater profits offshore to lower-taxing jurisdictions ii. Would result to erosion of the Kenyan tax base if corporations consider the Kenyan tax rates as high. iii. It creates an opportunity for the abuse of transfer pricing practices between corporations. 4. What are tax treaties? Examine…

The congressional Republicans took the jump to achieve the Defense of Marriage Act, that of which affirms the right to states and federal government not to make same sex marriages licensed in other jurisdictions. Republicans acknowledge their support for the constitutional amendment that defines marriage as one women and one man. Republicans amend all the citizens in the majority of the states that reconcile with the views of the Republicans and the traditional…

common law jurisdictions. The country faces gender and ethnicity diversity as the major dimension of inclusiveness in the judicial system. Critics have raised general arguments in rationalizing judicial diversity as well as the essence of having judicial appointments and procedures adhering to the requirements of equal opportunity laws and equality. Diverse compunctions of the judiciary have higher capacitates of responsiveness to experiences and needs of different legal system subjects. On the…