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    Explain the purpose of employment law and how it is enforced. Choose an area of employment you are familiar with and state whether or not you believe the objectives of this law are met in practice and whether or not its enforcement is effective. 1.1 Explain the aims and objectives of employment regulation The role of employment law is to achieve social justice and protect employees. There are two distinct branches of law‚ which include criminal and civil law. Criminal law in concerned with

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    I think the purpose of the earlier vagrancy law (1274) was to help the sick and homeless‚ and give help to the churches for the food they gave to them. When it was revised in (1349) it made it a crime to help anyone that was able to work‚ so I think they were trying even back then to get people to work and help themselves instead of relying on someone else to do it. Today we try to get people off welfare and get them to work‚ but it is still a work in progress I think. They soon started putting people

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    conclusion based on personal observation- C.S. Lewis’s excerpt on the law of human nature does demonstrate inductive reasoning through his argument; I say this because of my own observations and inductive analysis. Lewis first states that there are laws of different manners that subject all things in the world. Organisms‚ specifically humans‚ are subjected to a biological set of laws that cannot be disobeyed. The majority of these types of laws are not subject to choice for one to obey or disobey‚ simply

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    Law enforcement agencies nationwide must constantly adapt to the changing nature of crime and the ways criminals must be prosecuted. New dangers like terrorism‚ as well as old ones‚ such as public corruption‚ threaten the public and force police agencies to acclimate themselves to this new environment. President Clinton explained the need for the development of the federal and local law enforcement agencies. "We have begun to find a way to reduce crime‚ forming community partnerships with local

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    “Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” The above quote is an often heard line regarding an individual’s response to the demands of nature. It can be said that self-preservation and security outweigh the need to act independently and freely of the constraints of others. This is but one of the ways one can attempt to balance out the desire to act independently but also with the need for security. The idea of resolving these seemingly irreconcilable needs is brought up in Shakespeare’s

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    Transcript of the audio tape Intro uction To the a ure 0 a ure By Afroo Oonoo ‚ ‚ ‚ TRANSCRIPT ONE OF THE AUDIO TAPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE NATURE OF NATURE THIS TRANSCRIPT IS DEDICATED TO: ALL PEOPLES IN GENERAL AND THE ETHIOPIAN RACE IN PARTICULAR COPYRIGHT © 1996 BY AFROO OONOO THE PUBLISHERS OF THIS TRANSCRIPT IN INDIVIDUALITY ARE: THE STARS REPRESENTATIVE ALSO CALLED REPOO THE SUN THE PLANETS REPRESENTATIVE ALSO CALLED GEPOO THE EARTH THE SATELLITES REPRESENTATIVE ALSO CALLED SIPOO

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    and Hume; it is a theory suggesting that without state there is the state of nature‚ which is essentially the state of anarchy and consent is made by individuals to create a state as a ‘necessary evil’ as Tomas Paine describes the state. There are two points of disagreement in relation to the state. One is the nature of the state- whether it should be coercive or not‚ whether it is necessary; the other is the state’s purpose - whether the state should just provide negative freedoms‚ or whether it should

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    how law is made and examine the purpose behind criminal law and civil law. Goodey and Silver (2012) define law as a set of rules created by the state which forms a framework to ensure a peaceful society. This essay will aim to describe how laws are made using parliament‚ common law and European law. It will also examine the purpose behind criminal lawlaws created to protect society and to enforce punishment to those that don’t follow them. It will also examine the purpose behind Civil law‚ law

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    differences and purpose behind criminal and civil law. First it is useful to define what is meant by the term law. Law could be defined as “a set of rules to encourage a more peaceful society”. In other words‚ law regulates and protects society by defining undesirable behaviour and providing a framework of punishment. As a society we accept some acts are undesirable and the state enforces a system of laws to identify and punish these. This is the system of criminal law. In this way laws define our

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    THE NATURE‚ HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW 1. Introduction International law is divided into: a) Private International Law (or the conflict of laws) and b) Public International Law. The former deals with those cases‚ within particular legal systems‚ in which foreign elements obtrude‚ raising issues as to the application of foreign law or the role of foreign courts. Public International Law is not simply an adjunct of a legal order‚ but a separate system

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