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- 1731: Efficiency and Effectiveness of our Criminal Court System
- ... the cases progress faster as an accused legal options will be already made clear to him by his/her lawyer. Lawyers are absolutely necessary for major cases, as the accused may not understand his legal rights clearly or may not know how to defend himself correctly in the correct the manner during trial in court. Court judges in Provincial Court were generally looser than those in Ontario Supreme Court as that ... accused's situation. Over all they looked like they enjoyed their jobs. All in all, the system we currently have cannot be any better as it is efficient as humanly possible without violating any individuals rights as in the Charter.
- 1732: Capital Punishment
- ... was his or her right to take vengeance on the person that had wronged them. This mentality still exists, even today, but in a lesser form because the law has now outlined a person's rights and developed punishments that conform to those rights, yet allow for the retribution for their crime. However, some feel that those laws and punishments are too lax and criminals of today take advantage of them, ie. organized crime, knowing very well that the ...
- 1733: The Potential For A U.N. Peace
- ... in the past (Cotler 8). Another reason that the war does not make sense is because the ethnic cleansing had been going on for quite some time. NATO's near-decade-long silence over human rights violations in Kosovo (8) is too much of a significant point to overlook. Why now? Some suggest that the bombing was political. Although NATO is made up of an international community, the true power is ... on Kosovo villages and refugees continue to make homes in strange lands. Works Cited Alexander, Lamar. " Clintonesque war." The Washington Times 12 May 1999A19. Borchgrave, Arnaud de "'We are willing to die to defend our rights.'" The Washington Times 1 May 1999 A8. Cobban, Helana. "Beyond the war in Kosovo." The Christian Science Monitor 13 May 1999 11. Cotler, Irwin. " Holocaust as metaphor." Jerusalem Post 12 May 1999 08. "Day-by ...
- 1734: Constitutional Law Marbury V M
- ... duties in which they have discretion." Yet Marshall insists that the Supreme Court can issue a mandamus "[where the head of a department] is directed by law to do a certain act affecting the absolute rights of individuals." This assertion does not have Constitutional basis. The Constitution does not expressly grant the Supreme Court power over either of the other branches of government. Finally Marshall gets to the question based on ... the American people. The Supreme Court is the only branch of government that could act to strengthen the national government during the early history of the Constitution. Clearly, Congress could not take on the states' rights advocates and the state legislatures. If an early Congress had passed a law which a state government objected to, the state legislature might have simply nullified the law, thus forcing the national government into a ...
- 1735: Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- ... hasty retreat back to the bandstand. Another important dimension to this Orchestra, the last Stan led before his untimely death in 1979 from an aneurysm he incurred during a fall in Philadelphia, was his and Bill Holman's implementation of their intricate 'hidden note concept.' Simply stated, he and Holman ascertained that if a given set of chord sequences was meticulously, precisely arranged a heretofore silent note would 'glide-in' and ... Kenton's dynamic musical centurions in action. It's an evening, I assure you, you'll long remember." Interestingly enough, the prodigious output of original compositions and arrangements written by Stan, Dee Barton, Hank Levy, Bill Holman, Ken Hanna, Gene Roland, Johnny Richards and numerous other arrangers, who were quite willing to help him push the creative edge as far as they dared, continue to be employed as teaching aids in ...
- 1736: The Legalization Of Marijuana: Pros And Cons
- ... up the question why not legalize marijuana as medical drug which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine. Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council committee unanimously voted to urge president Bill Clinton and congress to end federal restrictions against the use of marijuana for " legitiment medical use." City council women Christine kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego "to go on the record we ... stay in our society and is only going through the stages that alcohol had during the prohibition era. Marijuana will become legal due to the knew administration which is liberal and who's leader , president Bill Clinton who had acutely used marijuana during the nineteen sixties. Due to all these factors marijuana will become more widely accepted by the American people who will pressure congress to rewrite the laws on the ...
- 1737: A Doll House By Ibsen
- ... from a bank that his wife, Nora, gets a loan from. He finds out that the loan was acquired illegally through forgery. She uses her father s signature. Helmer immediately strips her of all her rights to him as his wife and to the children as their mother. He does not ask for divorce since this will not be a good public image for his career, instead he asks her to ... view towards her. The blow to their marriage happens when Helmer discovers that his wife forged a bank document to get a loan. He gets angry and strips her of all her motherly and wife rights. Another letter shows up and clears them form the forgary He changes immediately and reinstats Nora back to her postion in their home. This clearly shows that he loves his career more than anything else ...
- 1738: Austria Ottoman Report
- ... of disenfranchised people. The Italians in the west had become ceded after the war with Prussia and Italy. The Slavic groups in the north and south were very unorganized, and still didn't have any rights. The principle political figure in Austria was Prince Klemens von Metternich. He worked to crush all revolutionaries. He failed, and a revolution still occurs in 1848. Austria would have disappeared except for the divisions in ... as an Emperor, and he controlled Hungary as a king. This eased a lot of the troubles from the more organized Hungarians, but it still left 3/5 of the people disenfranchised, or without voting rights. Austria and Hungary would have different politics, but they would have the same military and advisors. Ottoman Empire was known as the Powder Keg in the Balkans because it was made of very different groups ...
- 1739: Assimilation Or Accommodation
- ... Since the British were the dominating culture, many English people wished to see the French over turned and eventually live their life solely under British rule. Under the British law they could not recognize the rights of Catholics. Therefore no Roman Catholics could sit on the British Council and have political representation. The governor of Britain, James Murry, although liked by the French forbid any other Roman Catholic churches to be ... competition among nations. If the roles were switched around and Britain had lost the Seven Years War, they would be sincerely grateful for being allowed to continue their own religion and have all the same rights as before. Universally people would tend to agree that peace and prosperity would rise above conflict and war. Although accommodation is a high and idealistic view point that deserves the attention of rivaling countries, it ...
- 1740: Having A Gun
- ... act by saying that it would protect the innocent citizens. But it failed to even entertain the notion that the enactment of this law would come to protect the right of those who violate the rights of others. It has never occurred to authorities that vicious criminals, in spite of this legislation, will still manage somehow to get the firearms. Innocent people, however, will suffer, because they will be less likely ... or try to burglarize somebody's home, knowing that they would not have any guns to protect themselves? The prompt and correct answer is "NO". The government was established to insure that none of our rights would be violated or taken away. It seems to me that the government, by infringing the right of people to keep and bear arms, has failed to provide its citizens with privilege of safety in ...
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