The Right to Keep and Bear Arms: A Right to Self-Defense Against Criminals and Despots by Robert Dowlut[*] If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. -- James Madison[1] INTRODUCTION A written constitution is a reminder that governments can be unreasonable and unjust. By guaranteeing that "[a] well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the
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The Cosmological argument argues for the existence of God a posteriori based on the apparent order in the universe. For Aristotle, the existence of the universe needs an explanation, a cause, as it could not have come from nothing. Nothing comes from nothing so since there is something, there must have been some other thing that is its cause. Aristotle rules out an infinite progression of causes, so, that led to the conclusion that there must be a First Cause. Likewise with motion, there must have
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Bailley Schneider Dr. Moss PHIL 364: Biomedical Ethics 28 September 2016 DEATH DEFINED AS PUBLIC POLICY RECONSTRUCTION James L. Bernat argues that the whole-brain criterion of death, opposed to the higher-brain and the cardiopulmonary criteria of death, are optimum public policy (130). In order to argue this, Bernat outlines the relevant steps that help form his argument. First, “death” is a common word that one uses when talking about the ending of a human’s life; it has been made ambiguous by
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cultural studies. Cultural war has, as its main dimension, the social class structure and how it appears to take shape in public opinion through the media. Media space seems to be the stage for world-scale reconstruction of class structure. This essay will present Meaghan Morris biograph, trace hers arguments related to cultural war and the importance of media, and the construction of class, as one aspect of
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Pulitzer Prize winning writer Nicholas Kristof stated in his article “War and Wisdom” that argue the option of going to war should only be a last resort. Since there was a more realistic options available, Kristof denounces the decisions of Former President Bush who stated there was no real need to go to war. Kristof’s overall message and intent was to show how oppositions are not always the wiser decision. Kristof has a persuasive tone and insight, but later shifts to a more, authoritative tone
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Which forces, structures or actors have been identified by historians as most decisive in the crystallisation of Cold War tensions in the years 1945-51? * Define what the cold war tensions were/overview of why they came about after ww2 – wartime alliance had broken down due to ideological clashes of how the post-war world would look, an inherent distrust on both sides of the others true intentions and territorial clashes The Cold War – Edited by Klaus Larres and Ann Lane (short loan D843
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My first argument is that monuments can never be neutral, they always mean or represent something. The word monument itself derives from the Latin word monere, meaning to remind and instruct. In terms of the Confederate monuments, they are making a political statement about the Confederacy in Civil War. Even though it was the side that lost, the ideologies that the Confederacy stood for have been carried through into modern day southern America, and this has been represented in the monuments that
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Americans. The essay focuses on the various struggles and the arguments presented in order to diminish the African American slavery and to provide them equal rights focusing on the reconstruction period. Body: Analysis and Evaluation Considering the Era of African American Slavery, Ida B Wells was born during civil war in this era. She gave her arguments for highlighting the African American issue and how the slavery can be
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hundred thousand lives were lost. In an attempt to recover from the damage of the war the Unites States entered The Reconstruction Era. The Reconstruction Era was the period after the Civil War when Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to reenter the Union. As the United States recovered, the Reconstruction Era faded away and industrialization took hold in the healing nation. Industrialization brought about the Gilded Age
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how the church and state should be separated. This essay will give a background of Locke’s world when he published the letter, what religion is, a reconstruction of his argument on why there should be religious toleration and a separation of Church and State as well as critique the definitions, assumptions, benefits and limitations of Locke’s argument. Brief Historical and Political Climate of Locke’s Time Church and State were intertwined in a
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