Search results for: “public morals”
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Education
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler See Education links History of Education In the following treatment of this subject, the theory and early history of education is […]
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Freedom of Expression
Freedom of Expression in Election Law A universal right that includes freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art or through any other media of a person's choice. This freedom […]
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Freedom of Expression
Freedom of Expression in Election Law A universal right that includes freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art or through any other media of a person's choice. This freedom […]
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Business Activity
Hierarchical Display of Business activity Business And Competition > Business organisationBusiness And Competition > Business classification > Type of businessBusiness And Competition > Management > Management > Business management Business activity Concept of Business activity See the […]
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Extenuation
Extenuations Extenuations, by Bentham Text of one of the sections, titled “Extenuations” in the “Specimen of a Penal Code”, edited from the French of Dumont, and the original MSS. and printed works of Bentham, of the “Essay on the Promulgation of Laws, and the Reasons Thereof; with Specimen of a Penal Code”, of the classical…
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Private Ethics
Private Ethics Limits between Private Ethics and the Art of Legislation Text of the Chapter XIX, § 1, titled “Limits between Private Ethics and the Art of Legislation” in the classical book “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, by Jeremy Bentham: I. So much for the division of offences in general. Now…
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Normative Jurisprudence
Normative Jurisprudence Normative jurisprudence involves normative, evaluative, and otherwise prescriptive questions about the law. Freedom and the Limits of Legitimate Law Laws limit human autonomy by restricting freedom. (…) John Stuart Mill provides the classic liberal answer in the form of the harm principle: “[T]he sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,…
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Legal Ethics
Literature Review on Legal Ethics and the Public Good In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Christina M. Bellon offers the following summary about the topic of Legal Ethics and the Public Good: Legal ethics refers to the body of codes and, in some cases, […]
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Legal Ethics
Literature Review on Legal Ethics and the Public Good In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Christina M. Bellon offers the following summary about the topic of Legal Ethics and the Public Good: Legal ethics refers to the body of codes and, in some cases, […]
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Natural Law Theory
Main source: Finnis, John, "Natural Law Theories", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Definition of Legal Law Among the theories that define legal law there are: the theory of Hans Kelsen, who argues that law is […]
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Margin of Appreciation
Margin of Appreciation and the European Convention on Human Rights Court Margin of Appreciation "means that, within reason, the Court will leave it to the individual State to decide whether the particular human right is infringed, applying its own standards. It is particularly important […]
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John Finnis
John Finnis John Finnis is an Australian legal scholar who grew up in Adelaide before getting a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. He is currently professor of law at Oxford. Finnis published Natural Law and Natural Rights in 1980, and the book is considered a seminal restatement of the natural law doctrine. Finnis is a practising…