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- 501: John F. Kennedy
- ... Do to length constraints the paper will jump ahead to focus on one example of the President's response to a domestic issue and the President's view on foreign policy. "The Fight For Equal Rights" (Sorensen 470). In 1953 John Kennedy was adamantly in favor of civil rights legislation as a political neccessity and simply recognized that this legislation was morally correct. However in 1963 Kennedy was deeply committed to human rights. His convictions on this subject were not converted, but instead reached by his characteristic gradualness, logic, and cool mentality. He immediately began to implement programs that would incorporate a stronger black prescence in the ...
- 502: Enlightenment 2
- ... but being rooted in sentiment, they lack the validity of scientific generalization. A rational religion is a contradiction in terms. Hume here comes close to demolishing the entire rationalist philosophy of the Enlightenment--its natural rights, its self-evident truths and its universal and immutable laws of morality. English deism, however, was more pervasive in the Enlightenment. It emphasized an impersonal deity, natural religion and the common morality of all human ... of scientific inquiry, rational faith in humanity, and the study of comparative religion. All religions could be reduced to worship God and a commonsense moral code. The Enlightenment and the French revolution were about the rights of the common man. The philosophers did not discover natural rights, but they made it the foundation of the ethical and social gospel. They introduced natural rights into practical politics. They gave natural rights the dynamic force which revealed its explosive energy in the French ...
- 503: Gun Control
- ... arms on the basis of vague religious tests or any other nebulous standard or artifice" ( Caplan p.39). The first infringement on the Second Amendment came on November 30, 1993 when President Clinton signed Brady Bill I. The law required that there be a five day waiting period on all hand gun purchases. The Brady Bill also banned semi-automatic rifles and other military type weapons. ( Moore 1994 p.434) The five day waiting period is suppose to stop felons from buying guns. But, Waiting periods do not stop felons from ... study by Professor James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi, showed that, fifty percent of criminals expected to get a gun illeagily the same day they get out of prison. (Blackman A ug 1985) Brady Bill talks about recording and keeping track of guns for safety reasons. When people talk about the militia many people believe that the National Guard is our guarantee for a free state.(Caplan p. 50) ...
- 504: Thomas Hobbes
- ... themselves think fit; and the like.\\" Hobbes first two laws of nature that is the basis of civil order is first \\"to seek peace and follow it\\" and second to lay down one\\'s natural rights to all things to achieve peace. That simply means that peace can only be found by giving up one\\'s natural rights and mutually concenting to give such rights to the government.(Leviathan,Ch14) Hobbes clearly believed that a sovereign with absolute power would be able to maintain peace and security in society. A clear difference between Hobbes and Locke is that the ...
- 505: Should Quebec (or other provinces) Separate From Canada In Order To Best Protect Its Constitutional Rights?
- Should Quebec (or other provinces) Separate From Canada In Order To Best Protect Its Constitutional Rights? In my opinion, all provinces in Canada, including Quebec should not separate. Quebec has been one of the provinces of Canada for a long period of time. Most people in the world view that it ...
- 506: McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt
- ... helped cause at home undermined some of those freedoms. One of the most notorious examples of this is Senator Joseph McCarthy. In his search for Communists in the U.S. government he infringed upon civil rights and freedoms, such as freedom of speech, provided to all Americans by Constitution. His actions caused a lot of innocent people, mostly government employees, to loose their jobs and reputation. In addition, in the case ... fair play or, indeed, common decency. Indeed, it was an effort not merely to establish guilt by association but guilt by accusation alone. This was something one would expect in a totalitarian nation where the rights of the individual are crushed beneath the juggernaut of oppression: it had no place in America where government exists to serve our people, not to destroy them (Kort 82). In 1947 the House Un-American ... refusal to hear their case upheld the lower court decisions and confirmed their convictions (Feis 112). In 1947, when the Ten appeared before HUAC, the Supreme Court had not yet ruled on the First Amendment rights of unfriendly witnesses and HUAC was still considered slightly disreputable. Because the justices at first refused to hear these cases, it was not clear how they would handle the substantive constitutional issues that the ...
- 507: Mohandas K. Gandhi: Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live
- ... and they had four children. Gandhi was extremely intelligent and studied law in London. In 1893 Gandhi was required to do legal work in South Africa which was under British control. Because he claimed his rights as a British subject, he was constantly discriminated against due to his Indian race. He witnessed malicious discrimination toward people of the Indian race by the British. As a result of being outraged by this hateful discrimination, Gandhi decided to stay in South Africa. His one-year term of legal work turned into twenty-one years to proclaim and work for Indian rights. He first started a newspaper called Indian Opinion, and he also led campaigns boosting Indian Rights. A note worthy fact for Gandhi was that when he felt justice was on the British side, he would work for them by being a paramedic in the Boer War (1899-1902) and the ...
- 508: Knowledge of Information
- ... In Standard V-Ethics (p15), measurement criteria #3 states that "the nurse acts as a client advocate" and #5 states the "nurse delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects client autonomy, dignity and rights". The "Patient's Bill of Rights" cites somes cases that justify overriding a patient's autonomy rights, however. Considering that Ralph has recently lost his wife and that he is still working through his own grief may present a morally ...
- 509: Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio
- ... the nation, actively spread by Communists to sap the strength of the next generation." (D'Emilio, 232) The federal and state governments enacted legislation, held hearings and prosecuted individuals on heresy, thereby trampling the constitutional rights of homosexuals and those thought to be homosexual. The FBI, policy departments and the military gathered information, harassed, and coerced people into identifying themselves as homosexuals and naming others, ruining careers and lives in the ... that about 3,500 sex perverts held federal jobs, some of them in the State Department The subcommittee intends to make 'every effort to obtain all the pertinent facts," but it will not 'transgress individual rights' or 'subject any individual to ridicule,' he asserted. Mr. Hoey further promised that he would not 'allow his investigation to become a public spectacle." (Katz, 94) "On July 13, the Times reports that the House of Representatives, by a vote of 327 to 14, had passed a bill designed to permit department and agency heads to deal 3wi3th persons who are bad security risks because they drink too much, talk too much, are perverts or have similar failings." (Katz, 95) These excerpts ...
- 510: The Green Party of Canada
- ... from reaching their full potential, as well every person has the right to lead a self-determined life of purpose and dignity. Each individual must accept responsibility for not only the earth, but also the rights of everything living on it. The relationship between the people must reflect compassion, equality, mutual respect, justice, cooperation, and non- coercion. These attitudes must not only reflect but also guide our relations with others. The ... Also, over the years the terms "Left" and "Right" have picked up additional ideological baggage to expand considerably their application in political discourse and debate. The Left is now also associated with support for minority rights, womens' rights, gay and lesbian rights, environmental protection and foreign aid, whereas the Right is now also associated with military spending, neoconservatism and liberaltarism. I feel that the Green Party of Canada is indeed towards the ...
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