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The Jury System
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 710.... proofs for the defendant.
Juries who are representative of citizen make the decision value about
proof. But, Jerome Frank, one of delegates of legal realists, criticized
jury system in Law & the Modern Mind, 1930. " A lot of verdicts are
irresponsible juries' products of caprice and prejudice, for example, the
defendant is a rich corporation, the plaintiff is a poor boy and the
counsel is an eloquent speaker. Such facts often decide who wins or loses."
He characterizes that juries have tendency to like weak people and hate
strong people. Jury system seems to have many p .....
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Should Quebec (or Other Provinces) Separate From Canada In Order To Best Protect Its Constitutional Rights?
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 550.... wants to avoid any influence from other culture,
France is the greatest place for them.
Moreover, the Canada government will lose money if Quebec separates by
dealing with the separation affairs, like to help people in Quebec back to
Canada who do not want to separate. Separation also leads to the decreasing of
trade in Canada, and even the whole world. Quebec is a big trade market in
Canada. People will lose this big market if Quebec is no longer a province of
Canada. This will not only harmful to Canada, but also the separated Quebec.
Quebec separation is als .....
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Apartheid In Modern South Africa
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 637.... President F.W.
de Klerk in February of 1991 opened Parliament with a pledge to legalize the
militantly antiapartheid African National Congress and released A.N.C leader
Nelson Mandela from jail (56). De Klerk also showed his intentions to "bring a
swift end to legally sanctioned racial segregation" (56). "He called on
Parliament to repeal immediately the remaining pillars of discrimination that
dictate where blacks can work and live" (56). De Klerk also asked lawmakers to
discontinue the Group Areas Act which segregated black and white residential
areas and the Land Acts, whic .....
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Jefferson And Socrates' Idea Of Democracy
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1430.... found many enemies in his era (A&E Biography, 1995). Just as Socrates' criticism’s on politicians, poets, and artisans led to him being outcast from a large part of society and ultimately executed.(Kaplan, 1951, 13) Jefferson similarly was ostracized for his criticism's of Federalist policies, but he was embraced by those who shared his views, namely the republicans of his day. Socrates too had those who supported him, those included his pupils such as Crito, Phaedo, and most namely Plato. (Kaplan, 1951)
Even though Jefferson was in fact the founder of the Republican political .....
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Keep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1000.... have never heard of and never will.
If the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1995 are passed, all that we have
worked for since 1972 will be lost. It will take all of the advances made to
clean our water and totally reverse them. This bill will take apart the National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, leaving loopholes for businesses
desiring to pollute our waters. This bill also demonstrates a flagrant disregard
for the state of scientific and technological knowledge in the area of water
quality. It will corrupt our water in such a way as to totally abolish the Clean
W .....
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Should The Internet Be Censore
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 823.... Court decided that obscenity was “outside the protection intended for speech and press at the time during which the First Amendment was written.” (Roth v. U.S., 354 U.S., 476) Therefore, the First Amendment does not protect it. So what about the children? Should they be subject to obscenities and pornography? People opposed to Internet censorship argue that it is a parent’s job to supervise what web sites their children are going to. But parents argue that it is almost impossible to always be there to watch their children, especially for single parents and families where bo .....
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The Green Party Of Canada
Number of pages: 12 | Number of words: 3111.... scene in Canada about 15 years ago, in the
early 1980's (Darfler). The small group of individuals belonging to the Green
Party is an interesting bunch. They're all ages and come from a wide variety of
views and opinions. Even together as a party they vary in their individual
values and beliefs compared to other political parties in Canada. The party
faithful is unlike most other parties in many ways, the most noticeable
difference is having tried to invert a system which is bottom-up, meaning that
all the real power and responsibility are held at the level of the local
chapte .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 729.... if the government would be more consistent in its use. is defined as the execution by the state of those who have committed a crime. Methods of execution include the electric chair, lethal injection, and the gas chamber. Each of these methods are designed so that no pain is felt. The convict is killed almost immediately and feels nothing. However, the death penalty is still highly controversial and remains a source of argument among American's today. Some say it is cruel and inhuman, however over 60% of the American population believe in the implementation of the death pena .....
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