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…Thoreau's Civil Disobedience emphasizes the need to prioritize one's conscience over the dictates of laws. It criticizes American social institutions and policies, mostly slavery and the Mexican American war. Thoreau begins his essay…

…. The southern states’ insurgence started as a result of disputes over states rights and representation in Congress; it was coincidence that most of the disputes in congress revolved around slavery. The Civil War actually had little to do with slavery…

…a milestone in the civil rights movements conflicts of the 1950's and 1960's. Even though her place in history will never be forgotten, the heroic Rosa Parks proceeds to lead by example and deserves a special note of thanks. Over the years, she has been honoured…

…in sentencing. At the same time prisoners throughout Australia are, to a varying degree denied their civil rights to a vote in elections. Persons convicted and serving a sentence of more than a certain period (3 years federally and 1 year in NSW) are banned from…

…of most memorable things about this book are the modernistic view of slavery, the character Huck Finn, and his depiction of Nature vs. civilization. Mark Twain’s book challenged people’s primitive view on slavery. He introduces an average slave, Jim, running…

…is a "free" country. There are certain limitations on one's rights. Civil Liberties are the "specific rights of a free society that are protected by the Bill of Rights." The Supreme Court makes decisions in the area of civil liberties and individual rights…

…, Martin Luther King Jr. The Civil Rights’ movement had already begun. The fight for equal rights among blacks and whites had already started to change the way America was thinking. It was affecting the way Congress, and politics in general were running…

…In every revolution, there seems to be a few guidelines that it must follow. It seems that almost all revolutions, in their radical phases, tend to have the characteristics of excessive cruelty, extreme violence, and denials of the rights of freedom…

…in different times and the social conditions of those times influenced the ways that the leaders of these poltical movements mobilized, but the similarities in their strategies are noticible. The slave revolt organized by Denmark Vesey and the Civil Rights…

…of law, resulting in the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Corpus Juris had no immediate effect in Western Europe, but in the second half of the 11th century it was rediscovered in Italy. The study of law based on the Corpus Juris was instituted…