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- 16831: John Locke 2
- John Locke was the son of a country attorney and was born on August 29, 1632 . He grew up in and during the civil war, and later in 1652, entered the Christ Church, Oxford, where he remained as a student and teacher for many years. Locke taught and lectured in subjects such as Greek, rhetoric, and Moral philosophy. Lockedisagreed with ...
- 16832: Apartheid In South Africa
- ... London where he gaine dhis asters degree in 1966. He became bishop of Lesotho in 1978 and was appoited secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches in the same year. He was honoured world-wide for his determination in resisting apartheid peacefuly. He supported the Free Mandela campaign and promoted peaceful disobidience. Awarded the Nobel piec prize in 1985, he was a powerful voice amongst those calling for economic ...
- 16833: All Men Created Equal
- ... the separation of the races. Although he was not a modern day' civil right's activist, Lincoln's logic eventually led to the abolition of slavery, tragically driving the nation into a state of civil war. However, the American ideals which he embraced have made their way into our modern societies standards leading to civil right's programs which are constantly being reformed. Immigrants, of all nationalities and colors now look ...
- 16834: The Four Political Parties of Canada
- ... economic reform policies, but they do not go into nearly as much detail as the Conservatives do. Politics in Canada is an extremely volatile business. One day a party can be on top of the world, and the next day they can be the scourge of the planet. Politics in Canada has a long and interesting history, so much so that this paper has barely even scratched the surface. While the ...
- 16835: Natural Law
- ... innate principles and ideas of that time. The second deals with ideas, the third with words, and the fourth with knowledge. Locke's ideas center on traditional philosophical topics: the nature of the self, the world, God, and the grounds of our knowledge of them. He addresses these questions at the end of his Essay. The first three sections are an introduction, and Locke saw that they had an importance of ...
- 16836: Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
- ... of liberties which were, at the time ascribed, to most people belonging to the United States. The main author, James Madison, transported the previous ideas of f undamental liberties from the great libertarians around the world, such as John Lilburne, John Locke, William Walwyn and John Milton. Madison and other previous libertarians of his time were transposed into seventeen different rights which were to be secured to all those in the ...
- 16837: Brief History of the NRA
- Brief History of the NRA The National Rifle Association in its simplest form is the largest gun club in the world. The organization was founded in 1871 by former Union Army officers to encourage sport shooting in order to have a fine tuned militia in case of emergency. The Union officers believed that a well regulated ...
- 16838: The Context of The Second Amendment
- ... goverment can employ; and because it is composed of the armed [citizens], it will prevail over the mercenary professionals who man the armies of neighboring monarchs (Nesbit,318). This is how we won the Revolutionary War, by using state militias. The Second Amendment was important to the people then, but now does it really have any meaning? In modern times, we have what the founding fathers feared the most, a national ...
- 16839: Olmstead v. United States (1928)
- ... 3. There was no searching. There was no seizure. 4. No entry in the defendants' houses. 5. The wording of the 4th cannot be extended to included telegraphs and telephones that reach to the whole world from the defendant's house (or office.) "The intervening wires are not part of his house or office, any more than are the highways along which they are stretched." Dissenting opinion: Written by Justice Brandeis ...
- 16840: Mitchell v. Wisconsin: Why Mitchell v. Wisconsin Sucked
- ... which is cometimes cited as a precedent to support rulings such as Wisconsin v. Mitchell, is U.S. v. O'Brien. O'Brien had burnt his draft card to protest the draft and the Vietnam War, despite a law specifically forbidding the burning of draft cards. The Supreme Court ruled that the statute did not differentiate between public and private draft card burnings, and was therefore not a government attempt to ...
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