Boyle's law

where conviction would result in imprisonment, the court must appoint a lawyer for the defense. In Gideon vs. Wainwright, the court convicted Clarence Earl Gideon of larceny without providing him with counsel. The court said that under Florida state law, the court was only required to appoint a lawyer to the defendant in capital cases. Gideon argued that the 6th Amendment guaranteed a lawyer to all defendants, no matter what crime had been committed. The Supreme Court agreed with Gideon, stating that

That is to say that the number of illegal immigrants would still remain stable. This point then is very relevant because terrorists cannot be dissuaded by being involved in extralegal affairs. (Kukhatas, 2005) Proponents of restrictive immigration laws also opine, that for a government to function properly and for its people to be compassionates to compatriots, cultural roots must not be embellished or tainted. This liberal nationalist approach therefore argues that states who limit immigration restrictively

Burgermeister's Daughter What was the predominant image of women and women’s place in medieval society? Actual historical events, such as the scandal and subsequent litigation revolving around Anna Buschler which Steven Ozment detail’s in the Burgermeisters Daughter, suggests something off a compromise between these two literary extremes. It is easy to say that life in the sixteenth century was surely no utopia for women but at least they had some rights. Anna was the daughter of Hermann

hold.   The third argument in Callahan's paper brings the consequences of legalizing euthanasia to the forefront, namely the "abuse of the law; the difficulty of precisely writing, and the enforcing, the law; and the inherent slipperiness of the moral reasons for legalizing euthanasia in the first place" (EI, 413). Any law may be abused. Any law on euthanasia, however, may be carefully crafted in such a way as to minimize these potential abuses (particularly since Holland has already legalized

During the period of 20 years between 1950 and 1970, black Americans were able to improve their level of civil rights. Therefore, it is logical to say that they were at least partly successful in achieving their civil rights. This was accomplished through a variety of ways, two commonly used techniques being legal strategies and non-violent direct action. However, because they were unable to attain complete equality, there must have been factors that worked against the civil rights movement. One

was a paraplegic had no notion of the occurrence. I assert that it would have been better for him to have been under the care of two individuals, gay, or straight, who appreciated the gift he offered them to pursue his best interests. Antiquated laws against “sex crimes,” or “crimes against nature,” wherein procreation can not naturally occur such as oral

The political concepts of justice and how a society should be governed have dominated literature through out human history. The concept of peacefully resisting laws set by a governing force can be first be depicted in the world of the Ancient Greeks in the works of Sophocles and actions of Socrates. This popular idea has developed over the centuries and is commonly known today as civil disobedience. Due to the works of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. civil disobedience is a well-known

social situation has profound impacts on the choices people make. This society's foundation is based on injustice, although in the end, justice is served through the concept of `justice of desert'. Social Justice prevails in society where legal laws are practiced and respected. It is considered unjust to:

to seek sanctuary in another country. The internally displaced, for whatever reason, remain in their own states. Newly arrived refugees normally receive food, shelter and a place of safety from the host country. A well-defined body of international laws and conventions protects them. The UN refugee agency and other humanitarian organizations work within this legal framework to

that contemporary science and technology are essentially Western products. Ferguson questions whether a non-Western state can acquire scientific knowledge without compliance to other crucial western ideals like private property, liberty, the rule of law, and a representative government (Chase, 32). In numerous ways, Ferguson is a being of his generation and the position he has selected to live. The epoch symbolized by his extreme neo-liberalism is currently not as fashionable as it used to be. As