Substantive law

Douglas N. Husak's A Moral Right to Use Drugs In Douglas N. Husak’s A Moral Right to Use Drugs he attempts to look at drug use from an impartial standpoint in order to determine what is the best legal status for currently illegal drugs. Husak first describes the current legal situation concerning drugs in America, citing figures that show how drug crimes now make up a large percentage of crimes in our country. Husak explains the disruption which this causes within the judicial system

who, for example, served in the Canadian army or gained an University education (Crey, n.p.) After the strangling claws of the Indian Act were felt, the Canadian government began to issue more laws that intruded with the aboriginals lives and took away their rights. The first of these was the “Potlatch Law” (Hanson, n.p.). It banned potlatches and other ceremonies of the aboriginals, all for the purpose of forcing the

1) What are the implications of the "Dirty Harry Problem" relative to community expectations of police officer roles and functions? How does this issue relate the role of balancing individual and societal rights? "When and to what extent does the morally good end warrant or justify an ethically, politically, or legally dangerous means for its achievement?" This is the question posed by Carl Klockars about the ever growing Dirty Harry problem in society. This has become a focus of mass media and

Marbury vs Madison As the government was newly establishing its stronghold on the nation, forging its way to a powerful republic and instituting precedents for the future, a struggle to preserve the foundations of American Society instituted by Washington and John Adams existed as Thomas Jefferson took office. In an attempt to maintain the “edifice of the National Government” believing Jefferson would topple the prestigious nation with his atheist views, Adams appointed various Federalists to

In a country where freedom is the basis of all social life one has to feel that all the laws are made up to protect them, but that is not necessarily true. When one looks at the laws prohibiting the use of marijuana it is hard to see why it is needed. There are a few basic reasons why marijuana should be legal, and although there are nay sayers , no one can deny facts. People who try to protest the use of marijuana usually have not done their research on the subject. In this essay

                                         The legalization of marijuana                      The Legalization of Marijuana      For the last fifty or so years it has been

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