Broadly defined, laws are codified rules regulating behavior that are put in place by legislators, and morality is series of behavioral imperatives shaped by religion, culture, and society. Violating laws usually results in punishment inflicted by the state, while violating a moral code results in social disapproval and rejection. The...
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Gideon v Wainwright (1963) was a landmark case, in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states must provide legal counsel in criminal cases in which the defendants cannot afford to hire counsel for themselves. It was maintained that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that the right to counsel must be...
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Is the United States systematically violating human rights? Despite longstanding national (Declaration of Independence 1776) and international (United Nations 1948) declarations of relatively universal and inalienable/unalienable rights, disturbing videos have recently captured widespread attention as time after time, we watch American citizens brutalized by the American police (Eric Garner video...
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It seems that a bit of an uproar has occurred recently in upstate Michigan. Timothy Boomer’s arrest for public obscenity has been reported on all new media outlets including radio, newspapers, and the internet. According to Michigan state law, “…a person can be arrested and fined for using public profanity...
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In the United States, criminal justice is administered through a series of stages ranging from arrest as the first step to liberation as the final stage. Initially, the right to an attorney meant that individuals had the right to pay an attorney leaving out the poor from enjoying the privilege....
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The Supreme Court’s function is to act as a check on the powers of the legislature, the president, and the state governments of the U.S. The role of the judiciary in general is to ensure that laws being passed are in full compliance with the Constitution or whatever other governing...
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The role and function of law are varied and contingent on many factors depending on an individual enterprise, the citizen and the setting. Generally law exists to provide a foundation for society and to provide temperance, boundaries and governing principles. In this particular case Cipollone was pursuing a lawsuit against...
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Passed in 1996, Megan’s Law was put into place to help protect the public from sex offenders and related crimes. This law requires convicted sex offenders to notify the public if they’re visiting, working in, or living within a community. This law gives law enforcement rights they wouldn’t have otherwise...
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Any reasonable approach to analyzing the role of the law in American society must address the real fact that there demonstrably exists more than one sort of law in America and that these laws function in different ways and to different ends. While the overall goal of the Constitution and...
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The word “law” translates to the set or system of rules a society has in place, to regulate the behaviors of all. It is the entire framework of order, and the means by which a society operates in ways it considers correct for the well-being of all. This is then...
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Max Weber and Emile Durkheim are both theorists for whom the changing nature of legal strictures and modes of organization are fundamental to understanding the nature of social development. While the two thinkers both understand legal structures to be in communication with both the form of social production and the...
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The First Amendment protects speech on matters of public interest quite heavily. The case, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan established that a public figure could hold a speaker liable for damage to public image caused by a published parody only if the statement was made with false knowledge. However,...
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The Old Testament covenants highlight God relationship with Israelites. They are found within the Decalogue, Law of Holiness, and Book of Law. Specifically they are found within the ordinance and statute ceremony at Shechem. The covenants are similar to the ancient Near Eastern treaties. This since the covenant between the...
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Loving v. Virginia was an extremely important case. This video shows that not only did it transform the law in terms of interracial marriage, but it impacted the civil rights movement as a whole, by introducing racial equality to the realm of marriage. From my own research on recent Supreme...
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After reading the biographies of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, it is clear that most of them have gained experiences in both private and public arena. A significant number of judges engaged in private practices before entering the civil service career. Many Justices have also served as special assistant to former...
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The Office of Justice Programs launched the reentry court initiative in February 2000. The Reentry Court Initiative was launched to discover a new approach to humanizing offender reintegration into the neighborhood. The reentry court idea was drawn from the drug court model that uses judicial power to apply graduated permits...
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Introduction The issue of racial disparity via the overrepresentation of minorities in the criminal justice system is not an issue that is new. For decades it has been widely known that although minorities represent a small percentage of the general population of the nation. They are the majority percentage of...
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On June 19, 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were electrocuted on their fourteenth wedding anniversary. The couple from New York City’s Lower East Side and the progeny of immigrants, were found guilty of conspiracy by the United States government. The specific charge was they ran a spy ring. The case...
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The legal process of the US is systematic, specific, and particular. A certain action or word can change the entire outcome of a case. Plaintiffs can become defendants and vice versa because of certain utterances or actions. An innocent suspect can incriminate themselves during a legal process as well. To...
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After reviewing the State of California Law Enforcement and Anaheim Police Department websites, there are a number of commonalities and distinct characteristics that define the approach of state and local departments towards fighting crime and providing up to date information. Each site was accessible and included as their main streams,...
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When a patient comes to a hospital for care, he entrusts his life and health into the hands of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, hoping to receive respectful and adequate treatment. Medical workers are responsible for promoting wellness of their patients in a number of ways, including both provision...
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It is well-known that the founders of the United States’ government envisioned a tripartite federal system of government including an executive branch (the President), a legislative one (Congress and the Senate), and a judicial branch (the Supreme Court). Part of the idea was that each branch could ‘check’ the others,...
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The scope of human rights, as stated in the constitution, is that all people are entitled to the fundamental rights. The rights are extended to criminals serving jail sentence in prison. Although the inmates are imprisoned for the crimes they have committed against the society and breaking the law, they...
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Why do you think some states have more codified rights / liberties contained within their constitutions than other states? One of the strengths of the US system of government is that it allows individual state governments to have extensive choice and freedom with regard to the rights, liberties and laws...
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Juvenile delinquency basically follows a similar trend exhibited by normal adolescent development. Children and youth follow a trajectory toward criminal behavior rather than participating randomly. The two types of delinquents as identified by researchers include those whose onset of antisocial behavior start in early childhood and those whom this inception...
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