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Significance of the Toleration Act Religious intolerance was normal practice throughout the Middle Ages, the Reformation bringing with it much persecution. Christian Anti-Semitism fuelled the religious insecurity prevalent in Europe but by the end of the sixteenth century Poland, the Dutch Republic and France had reached a state of ‘tolerance’, being in contrast to the religious

One of the main reasons English citizens moved to America was the prospect of freedom from from religious persecution. Many colonies were founded solely to be a safe haven for religious minorities. For instance, Massachusetts was founded by a segment of extreme Puritans called, in hopes of practice their religion without being harassed. The Separatists believed the Church of England maintained too many similarities with the Catholic Church, and it was their job, as saints, to purify it. Their religious

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report will analyse the groupthink’s concerns in the collapse of Enron. The collapse of Enron is less than three months, which Enron from a very prosperous company to a bankrupt enterprise. The collapse of Enron is one of the most grievous business failures in United States. This disastrous business failure had causes a large number of employees lost their jobs and retirement savings. Groupthink leads groups to make faulty judgments. Groupthink occurs when a group make

Civil disobedience, also known as peaceful resistance to laws, positively impacts free societies. A free society, is a society in which individuals posses autonomy. Individuals in such a society are able to make their own decisions based on pursuits they deem important. All societies, including free societies, are subject to flaws. Though the government in a free society attempts to make sure all citizens’ rights are fulfilled, unjust laws marginalizing the rights of certain groups of people sometimes

The question whether or not civil disobedience is justifiable in a democracy has been a controversial matter among thinkers and politicians. Views vary from almost absolute support to the legitimacy of civil disobedience in democratic societies to conservative support and to the rejection of the idea. Before embarking on this thorny issue, it should be noted that the legitimacy of civil disobedience in democratic states is a relative issue. It is subject to the criteria and considerations of schools

Black stated an unpopular opinion, saying that it was a "myth to say that any person has a constitutional right to say what he pleases, where he pleases, and when he pleases,” while other dissenter Justice John M. Harlan found nothing wrong with teachers regulating armbands and their suspension was for a legitimate reason. The act of the School District in suspending the students clearly showed a serious impediment of the Free Speech Clause

During swift’s time, there had been long, expensive wars between King James and who would later be referred to as king William in Ireland. After the defeat of King James laws were passed that made it so that Catholics could not hold positions of power, own land or event vote. And Presbyterians could own land but could not vote. The land that could not longer be owned by the Catholics The defeat of James ' forces by his Protestant son-in-law, William of Orange, Ireland had become a Protestant-dominated

Comparing Kant and Mill Works Cited Missing Kant and Mill both articulate thoughts that praise the use of reason as the ultimate good, that which leads to enlightenment (in Kant’s terms) and a general understanding and certainty, as Mill would put it. The two political philosophers, while both striving to reach the same goal, ultimately achieve their goals in a different sense, and even demonstrate a slight discrepancy in what they ultimately mean to attain. Mill’s path toward certainty and

In this paper I will analyze the arguments presented in Caroline West’s article, “Words That Silence? Freedom of Express and Racist Hate Speech.” Here West probes what is meant by free speech and in so doing, identifies three dimensions of speech from which the value of free speech derives. These are production and distribution, comprehension, and consideration. Her major premise is that absent requirements of comprehension or consideration, free speech lacks the value it is generally accorded

This principle does have cause for concern though, in that it limits the rights of people who wish to leave, but (more importantly) it is a means to silence critics of the government. It is understandable that to form a stable Communist state, dissenters have to be dealt with, but for fear of losing property (or possibly other repercussions), it is possible that “rebels” would