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  • Riel And The M'eris
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    Louis Riel should not have been hung because he represented those who couldn't represent themselves. Louis Riel was disappointed with the way the M'eris were, so he took it upon himself to represent the M'eris and their rights. Even though the actions that followed, such as keeping the new governor out the colony, was illegal and very wrong. Riel risked it for the rights of the M'eris. As for Thomas Scott, Riel has absolutely no legal right to have him shot, but Riel himself never touched a gun ...
  • Majority Rules And Limited Government
    690 words
    DEFINING DEMOCRACY Democracy is defined as rule by the people. It is the form of government that our country chooses to use. There are five main parts to our democratic form of government: individual rights, freedom, equality, majority rules, and limited government. These five main parts are essential to keep our nation in balance. Each one relates to the other by making the latter possible. This essay will elaborate, illustrate and exemplify each part, it will also explain how they are interdep...
  • Political And Other Extrajudicial Killing Security Forces
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    Despite 1992 constitutional changes that permitted the creation of four political parties, President Hassan Gouled Aptidon and the People's Rally for Progress (RPP), in power since independence in 1977, continued to rule the country. Djibouti's two main ethnic groups are the politically predominant Issa (the tribe of the President, which is of Somali origin) and the Afar (who are also numerous in Ethiopia and Eritrea). The Afar comprise the largest single tribe in Djibouti but are outnumbered by...
  • Limits On The Rights Of The Citizens
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    Lina Sandoval English 1 A-Mr. VothAugust 26, 2000 RESPONSE TO TAKING RIGHTS SERIOUSLY After reading the essay "Taking Rights Seriously" by Ronald Dworkin, I realized that I don't really pay any particular attention to our rights or even the limits to them. I didn't even know there was a dispute of what particular rights we as citizens have. Dworkin says that "the Government will have the last word on what an individual's rights are, because its police will do what its officials and courts say". ...
  • Right To Petition The Government
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    In 1791, the Bill of Rights, consisting of 10 amendments, was ratified into the constitution. The document's purpose was to spell out the liberties of the people that the government could not infringe upon. Considered necessary by many at the time of its development, the Bill of Rights became the cause for a huge debate between two different factions: The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalists were those who thought that there should be a new Union created with a strong centralize...
  • Hobbes And Locke's View Of Social Obligation
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    According to the natural right theory, the state of nature is the original condition of human beings in regard to any common authority. In the state of nature, according to Thomas Hobbes, each individual has a right to everything, even the body / life of the other. The state of nature can lead to the state of moral chaos. Moral chaos produces physical chaos or war, thus the state of war, the war of all against all. The reason this is because no one has any connection to the other, everyone has t...
  • Weimar Republic
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    How Did The Weimar Republic Survived The Apparantly Insurmountable Problems That It Faced 1918-23 How did the Weimar Republic Survive the Apparently Insurmountable Problems That it Faced 1918-23 In order to answer this question we must first establish whether infact the problems that Weimar faced were insurmountable and how much of a threat they posed to the survival of the republic. The years of 1918 to 1923 are deemed by many historians as the "crisis years" as they were a period of much unres...
  • Natural Rights Of Other People
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    Government is justifiable in limiting the rights of the people it governs for the welfare of the group, and even themselves (the people). If people has use of their absolute rights, meaning they were allowed to do anything because they have the right to do anything they choose, rights of other people would be infringed on. Chaos would be the order without government. People gave the government the power to do this by creating a social contract, an agreement to be governed by a government which i...
  • Right Of The Iraqi People
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    For as long as mankind has existed, there has been a desire for a defined set of basic rights. Men are born with certain rights, which no power may take away from them. When these rights are infringed upon, action must be taken to ensure that this does not occur again. This is the basic reason the American government gives for using force to overthrow the Iraqi government. While this is a very good cause to fight for, American and British forces are also violating rights of innocent Iraqi citize...

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