The founding Fathers of this great nation, compelled on behalf of its citizens throughout, created, drafted, and adopted the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Representing will and determination, both documents serve as a testament of freedom and the pursuit to obtain liberty and justice for all citizens. Both documents address the “people” but neither of them elaborates the meaning of the word “people” based upon gender. Men protected their freedoms with both the U.S. Constitution and The Declaration of Independence, while simultaneously using them to suppress the freedom of women, just as Judge Hunt did in the case against Susan B. Anthony. As the Judge seen fit to instruct the court, he openly acknowledges the
Lisa is Vinny’s fiance’, but also appears to play the part of Vinny’s paralegal, even though the paralegal title is never used to address her. The ethical issues involving Lisa are as follows: • According to the ABA, a paralegal is a person qualified by education, training or work experience, who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible. Nothing in this definition fits the characteristic of Lisa. She attends the trial as someone from the general public, but continued to “coach” Vinny as to the proper rules of the courtroom. Since there are no current regulations pertaining to the unauthorized practice of law by non attorneys, however Vinny (the lawyer) would have the authority to make sure that Lisa follows rules consistent of ABA model rule 5.3, the responsibilities regarding non-lawyer assistants.
Her preference for divine law is shown here as well because she’s implying that Creon has no authority to judge what the gods will end up judging. Antigone’s choice of following divine law over civil law is evident throughout the play because she believes that the gods have lasting authority while Creon has temporary authority on earth only and thus justifies her actions based upon those
| | Any society always assumes that it’s position on matters is the most sensible, most rational, and, ultimately, best. In fact, societies throughout history have had wildly differing expectations of life, depending on their religious, political and cultural environment. For example, a thousand years ago, women were considered inferior to men, and this was a viewpoint which the vast majority of women shared, as they had been brought up to believe in it. The problem occurs when one society, with its own idiosyncratic views, attempts to formulate a legal document that bill bind future generations. For example, the American Bill of Rights was considered revolutionary and foresighted in its time, but now rights such as the right to bear arms are outdated and an obstacle.
HY203-007 Will Rall Women’s Rights in 19th Century America The early 19th Century ushered in a new era of liberties and freedom. Although the United States Constitution stated that all man is created equal, it seemed to leave out women. Women were always seen as inferior to man because of their lack of education, masculinity and political knowledge. Women’s rights only seem to get worse after the Revolution, as America’s political parties started to gain national power. In Sarah Grimke’s Letters on the Equality of the Sexes we can see that she supports Rosemarie Zagarri’s Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic book, because of the views they shared about religion and women’s rights.
The chains once worn by Harrison represented the laws of equality which restrict people from performing at their fullest potential. When he tore off the handicaps thoughts of freedom flooded my mind and how desperately I yearned for it. Interrupting my train of thought Harrison spoke, “I shall now select my empress. Let the first women
She convinced herself to still rebel. She understandsthat Flint may own her body, but she cannot let him own her head.
It is no surprise that the generation’s of dispossessed groups to follow, used the same principle, ideas, and language of republicanism to secure their own rights. Working and middle class women of the nineteenth century used the republican ideology of liberty, and tyranny in many written documents and commentaries as a weapon that forced
The bills of rights affect every American life in many different ways. The first ten amendments written by our forefathers were created to set limitations on the power of the United States government protecting our rights of liberty and property. As an American citizen I am given the privilege of freedom, liberty, and equality as well as all American citizens. The bills establishes each American their rights and duties as one nation and that we are all to be treated equally. By giving you the divine rights that most people around the world lack to have you will see that we have a great advantage to express ourselves in many different ways.
Elizabeth Stanton appeals to ethos by establishing the methods that women will go through in order to become equal, and by providing the fact that it is a right for women to be equal. She states, "...in view of the unjust laws above mentioned...we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States," and this tells the reader that the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is not to be taken lightly, that is is an official request from feminists who are well-educated in the matters of the new nation. Jefferson appeals to pathos by listing the hardships that the colonists have endured. Included in the Declaration is a long list of cruelties of all sorts that justify the need for independence, and it covers injustices like the refusal to pass laws to keeping armies afoot in the colonies during times of peace. It would be difficult for any American to say no to independence if they were given a list of reasons why independence must be sought.