Essays on Law

Traditionally, sovereignty is described state's jurisdiction to self-government that is free from external interferences (Glanville 2014, p.11). In that case, a sovereign country would be accountable to none but itself. The same state is expected to meddle in its internal affairs, politics, and decision-making process without interfering with that of...

The United States Prison System The United States has among the highest rates of imprisonment in the world. The number of inmates as at 2016 was about 8 million (Markman et al., 2016). The high prison populations have been blamed for the high expenditures of the justice system. Therefore, there has...

The Impact of Significant Events on the US Criminal Justice System The present term paper provided a timeline of five significant events that impacted the US criminal justice system. Besides, the influence that each event had on the justice system and the association between the different events was elucidated. The events...

The Idea of Equality of Opportunity The idea of equality of opportunity is coupled to the liberal political thought. The principle refers to the situation in which people’s ambitions and efforts are not disenchanted by the biased disadvantages of ethnicity, class or gender. In many cases, opposing the principle of equality...

Original Text with HTML Headings In Western doctrine interpretation of unlimited, indivisible, inalienable sovereignty from the end of the 19 century, is criticized because there is more or fewer restrictions on the power of any state, especially a democratic and legal state, in which state power is limited by human rights,...

1. The article by Zewei is all about the evolution of China as a country in terms of it's economic, political and social system, culture and structure. The article is divided into four sections that are section one is describes the world of Chinese Confucianism centered...

Like the state itself Like the state itself, the Texas judicial system is extensive and complex. It uses the common law system, which depends on written laws as well as the judges' interpretations of those laws over time. However, for decades, the Texas judicial system has been criticized for its inability...

Senator Kevin De León is renowned for engineering the authorship of Senate Bill 100 on the emission of green gases. The legislation targeted California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard Program. According to De León, this bill focused on having the standards of renewable energy improved by 2030. Moreover, De León projected that...

Guns in America There about 393, 347,000 guns in supply in the United States. It means that every 3 out of ten people own firearms. About 22% of the citizens have at least one or more guns. Americans have complex relationships and deep history with guns. It is a point of...

The Decline of Death Sentences in the United States The leveling of death sentences by American courts is not a secret. However, there has been a decline in the number of jurisdictions imposing death penalties in the recent past. Despite the decline, Texas still leads the country's executions. Texas is estimated...

The use of force to capture an offender by a law enforcement officer correlates to the offender’s willingness to surrender. There are no universally acceptable standards on the subject matter. When left uncheck, an offender’s rights are prone to abuse. The amount of force used is determined by the officers’...

Different debates have been held concerning the legality of government s decision on the detention of citizens of the United States within the United States as enemy combats and as well addressing the procedure that constitutionally allows these enemy combats an opportunity to challenge their position or classification...