The Rules

The rule of law is an idealistic concept of characteristics in a legal process, which ought to exist in a good constitutional system. There is controversy over the rule of law because there is no definite meaning of it. For example, there is one view that it should prescribe a form of law and the procedure that should be used to form it. This is supported by Lord Bingham’s sub-rule, “questions of legal right and liability should ordinarily be resolved by application of the law and not be the…

between local and state government, judges usually follow Dillon’s Rule, which states that the local government is the creation of the state. This ideology is different from Fordham’s Rule and Cooley’s rule, which give more power to the local governments. Dillon’s rule is important because of its impact on city and other local government and how they function. First of all, we need to understand Dillon’s Rule. As stated above, Dillon’s Rule maintained that because local government is the…

In class on Wednesday, we went further with our discussion on language. We talked about how different languages have different rules and what these rules mean to the language as a whole. I am currently taking Spanish for the first time ever (I took sign language in high school for my language requirement) and of course in that class we are learning about the different rules and so on. On Wednesday morning, my professor asked a student who goes to North Central who is from Nicaragua to come talk…

approved the recently proposed rules that will change the current disposal of embryonic and fetal remains. The rules will go into effect on December 19 and will require the cremation, sanitization, and interment of fetal tissues. The Texas Department of State Health Services received hefty backlash after the first public hearing and was questioned about the ambiguity of the proposed rules by the Women’s and Perinatal Health of the Texas Medical Association. The rules were edited and…

Out of all the rules of the English this is by far the most true rule there is, the denial rule. The denial rule is where, when walking on the sidewalk, you refuse to notice or acknowledge anyone around you, and you are pretty much in your own little world. There are however a couple exceptions, first being the politeness exception, where you say sorry if you bump into someone, or asking if there is an open seat next to them. The other exception is the information rule, if needing to find the…

First, if they lie to me, they automatically have to walk (or another discipline that I see fit). I do not tolerate lying and I really hope that by enforcing this rule, students will learn to tell the truth more often. Another exception to my rule is if one hits someone on purpose. I do not know what it is about some children today, but it seems as if they feel that hitting is appropriate behavior, but it is not acceptable in my class. I do understand…

The Gag Rule of 1836-1844 was a House rule that set out to table all petitions from anti slavery groups. The reason for this was the growing support of the abolitionist movement that was flooding congress with petitions and angering southerner congressman who owned slaves. In an effort to stall the anger from these petitions, Henry Laurens Pinckney decided to bring to the House a set of three resolutions. The first stated that congress had no right to interfere in a state's decision on the issue…

After reading The Rule of Four, I was highly disappointed in the later half of the book. This was because of its terrible conclusion, which left a very bitter and sad aftertaste until the point where I think the book was better without the ending. The book sets a very emotional tone from the start. We are faced with characters who have gone through so much in search for their ambitions, whether that be cracking the Hypnerotomachia or mending a loving relationship (in the case of Katie), all…

Only Act and Rule Utilitarianism apply to this “stealing to survive” scenario. Act utilitarianism states that we should judge each individual scenario and decide which action to take according to the scenario. Rule utilitarianism states that we should follow general set rules of conduct which have, in the past, produced good results. An example showing the differences between the two is if someone…

successful is Wells’ recipe? Discuss with examples of science fiction that both follow and break with this advice. The Wellsian rule states that science fiction should only contain one surprising element in order to 'domesticate the impossible hypothesis '. It would therefore be easy to assume that because some successful forms of science fiction do not adhere to 'Wellsian rule ' then Wells ' theory must be wrong. This essay will show that rather than Wells being ‘wrong’, he was trying…