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Women's Rights According to Edmund Burke and Mary Wollenstonecraft

were discounted. It seemed to be an alien concept to the philosophical thinkers of the eighteenth century that the freedoms that ...

Natural Law and Natural Rights

In six pages this essay discusses natural law and natural rights as considered by James Hutson in 'The Bill of Rights and the Amer...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

Individual Rights v. States Rights

This research paper investigates literature that examines the inherent tension between the rights of individuals and states rights...

Womens Rights 1865 till the Present

This paper reviews the history of women's rights. Women fought diligently for the right to vote to the right to control their own...

Winning Women's Rights

The right to vote is one of the most cherished of women's rights. With it comes other rights. There are three sources in this ei...

LAW FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS

This 3-page paper analyzes tenant and landlord law, going into issues such as Implied Warranty of Habitability and tenant rights. ...

Right and Left Wing Political Dichotomy

nomenclature developed from the physical arrangement of attendees at the French Chamber of Deputies following the Revolution in 17...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

Right to Refuse Treatment

so (Forsloff). However, the state considers itself to have a vested interest in protected those who cannot protect themselves, suc...

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Maximilien Robespierre

In five pages this research paper discusses Maximilien Robespierre's political writings and the Declaration of the Rights of Man i...

Cold War Civil Rights

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

Secession as a Harbinger of Conflict

Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...

1950s McCarthyism and 1960s' Civil Rights Movement

In four pages this essay discusses the McCarthyism period and the emergence of the civil rights movement thereafter....

'The Case for H.R. 1534: Equal Access to the Courts' Critiqued

In five pages the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997 is examined in terms of implications....

Contemporary Law v. Pre 1700 Law

of settling a dispute. In fact, during King Henry IIs reign (1133-1189), "no other legal means was recognized for the settlement ...

Enlightenment Theories and Rights for Women

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Early Political Thinking

This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...

Political Controversies and the Theories of Mary Ann Glendon

In six pages Rights Talk by Mary Glendon is examined in a discussion of her controversial political beliefs. Five sources are cit...

Short Essays on American Poltics

In three pages short essays on American politics such as pros and cons of public opinion polls, political parties and their declin...

Reflections on Five Hundred Years of American History

In five pages five centuries of American history are considered in an analysis of significant quotes with political movements, civ...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....

Ambiguities Throughout the History of Politics

In six pages this paper discusses the political ambiguities represented by the Second World War, the Cold War's rise and fall, and...

American Industrialization

In two pages this paper discusses nineteenth century America and how industrialization had resulted in a turbulent political clima...

Social Responsibility and Libertarians

Libertarianism and social responsibility are two major theories of political organization in the world today. Libertarians stress ...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...