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    Breaking The Law

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    Breaking The Law Nowadays people think rules is not something important in their life and they are not following the rules even they break the rules. For them‚ they can do whatever they wanted in this world because they think this world is belong to them. Their bad behaviors distract people from having a peaceful life. Addition‚ violence in this world getting increases and because of that‚ they cause a lot of trouble in mean time. There three main causes of breaking the rules and law.

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    Breaking the Law Throughout history many situations have called for noble individuals to break the law to stand up for a particular belief or idea. Two Individuals from the text that have done this successfully are Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Jefferson. Today in our society there are hardly any forms of acceptable disobedience to the law without large support groups that can make a change. Choosing to overthrow the government such as Jefferson and the continental congress did or choosing

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    Excuses, Excuses

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    ExcusesExcuses Even though some excuses for turning in work late as seen in “The Dog Ate My Disk‚ and Other Tales of Woe” by Carolyn Foster Segal‚ some excuses given are legitimate for turning in late work. Some unforeseeable events‚ such as traffic accidents‚ death in the family‚ weather that causes an evacuation‚ and a fire are just a few are all events that students can not control‚ which result in turning in late work. It is Monday morning‚ students are on their way to the first class period

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    TOPIC: THE MAXIM IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO DEFENCE‚ SHOULD NOT BE PART OF THE GHANA LEGAL SYSTEM SINCE MANY OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE RURAL AREAS ARE ILLETREATES. IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO DEFENSE This maxim can also be translated as ignorance of the law is no excuse. When one is found guilty of a crime the accused tends to hold unto the saying that he did not know that what he did is unlawful thereby ignoring that fact that ignorance of the law is no excuse or defense. This maxim

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    Essay On Law Breaking

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    Are all of our laws here in the United States concrete or are there some circumstances where laws can be broken? Should we say that all of our laws should never be broken or are there areas that are gray? I would think that Martin Luther King and many other African Americans would say that if they had not broken the law they may not have the freedom they do today. John Rawls‚ a famous political philosopher of the twentieth century also believed that there were and still are certain circumstances

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    Breaking Unjust Laws

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    democracy we have a moral duty in general to obey the laws or to attempt altering laws we don’t like through the electoral process. In America civil disobedience cannot be justified since it goes against the ideals of democracy. Living in a country where there are legal solutions to a problem that can take months or years to solve‚ people must voice their concerns and rebel against the government through grassroots movements and protests. Breaking laws that were created to protect the government and its

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    about laws. However‚ if a law is written in a way such that it would be illegal to protest it‚ in those times‚ breaking the law might be the only option. For example‚ during the 1960s‚ civil rights leaders had to break the law to get attention from the media and rally for change to show how wrong segregation was. Breaking the law peacefully positively affects a free society if the laws restrict the freedom of the country. In the 1960s‚ many people such as Martin Luther King Jr. broke the law to show

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    When are we justified in breaking the law? In the case of Socrates I believe him breaking the law was justifiable‚ although I don’t believe what he did was really breaking the law especially today in modern government. Today we are free with our speech‚ press and free to do what we want within limitations of laws. According to Mill “The only freedom which deserves the name‚ is that of pursuing our own good in our own way‚ so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs‚ or impede

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    Crime and Breaking Law

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    Crime is the breaking of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction. I believe that every country has some problems with crime‚ Lithuania isn’t an exception too. It’s not a secret that crime rate in Lithuania is rather high. According to the statistics the crime rate is about 50 % higher than it was 20 years ago‚ so a growth of crime is uncontrolled. Most often committed crime in Lithuania is probably thievery. For some people in Lithuania it’s the

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    you think that is okay for a political leader to bend or break the law for the good of the country? No it may not be right to harm someone or allow something bad or harmful to happen just because you are following the law. If you break the law with any type of good intentions of not hurting anything or anybody‚ it should be okay. Breaking this law Julius was helping the huge population of their people. At the same time breaking a law isn’t okay! If you expect someone to follow the rules‚ everybody

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