years ago during the Roman Empire‚ legal scholars labeled this the “Public Trust Doctrine.” The Public Trust Doctrine perseveres as a value system and an ethic as its expression in law mutates and evolves. More recently‚ scholars‚ activists‚ and lawyers have begun discussing the rights of people to access and enjoy various essential resources and services the Earth so generously yields. The Public Trust Doctrine primarily rests on the principle that certain resources like air‚ sea‚ waters and
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Respondeat Superior Introduction and thesis statements Respondeat superior is a common law doctrine which was established in England in the seventeenth-century which was later adopted by united states and has been an agency of a fixture of agency law. The Respondeat superior is the legal concept of vicarious liability and the Doctrine of Respondeat Superior occurs when the agent commits a tort or civil wrong within the scope of employment and the principal is held liable although the principal may
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DOCTRINE OF CREATION AND ECOLOGICAL PRAXIS IN THE THEOLOGY OF COLIN GUNTON 2.1 Introduction In the previous chapter we saw that the doctrine of creation and human responsibility for the environment are two categories that must go hand-in-hand. This chapter seeks to expound Gunton’s doctrine of creation and its implications for human responsibility towards the environment. In relation to that‚ this chapter first explains Gunton as an evangelical theologian‚ his departure from the traditional classical
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine Employment-At-Will Doctrine: three major exceptions From my research of this topic it is obvious that the United States is still the only industrialized nation that lacks a national wrongful dismissal statute. The reason for the lack of such is not of course the federal structure of the United States. In the United States‚ employees without a written employment contract generally can be fired for good cause‚ bad cause‚ or no cause at all; judicial
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To what extent is feminism a single doctrine? Until the 1960s‚ feminism was widely regarded as a sub-set of liberalism and socialism‚ rather than as an ideology in its own right. Today‚ however‚ feminism can be considered a single doctrine in that all feminists subscribe to a range of ‘common ground’ beliefs‚ such as the existence of a patriarchal society‚ and the desire to change gender inequalities. Then again‚ it can be argued that feminism is characterised more by disagreement than consensus
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overseas ventures because it allows for a clear understanding of the state’s position on specific issues. I will touch on several important political plans and doctrines that have affected the relations with rest of the world with the United States. The idea of national superiority was evident in the belief of manifest destiny. This doctrine basically stated that America was a superior nation that was designed to expand. The nationalist
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EVEN IF THIS COURT FINDS THAT THE INITIAL INVESTIGATORY QUESTION NEEDED MIRANDA WARNINGS‚ THE ATTENUATION DOCTRINE APPLIES TO THE STATEMENTS MADE BY THE DEFENDANT AT THE POLICE STATION WHERE HE WAS ADVISED OF HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS. The attenuation doctrine is an exception to the fruit of the poisonous tree‚ determine if the attenuation doctrine applies to a given case‚ evaluates the causal link between the initial illegal search and seizure and a subsequent search and seizure‚ allows the subsequent
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What is a Presidential doctrine: it indicates a program that a president uses to implement a policy towards either a country or region to attain foreign policy aspirations for the United States. The term "doctrine" denotes "A declaration of certified government policy‚ particularly in foreign affairs and military strategy" ("Doctrine‚" n.d.). Presidents like Jimmy Carter‚ James Polk‚ and George W. Bush put together their doctrines‚ but amid these the doctrine of President Ronald Reagan is most notably
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Japanese acknowledging Japanese control over Manchuria‚ while also securing America’s interest in the oceanic region. 5. What role did the U.S. play in the Caribbean after the Spanish-American War? Explain the “Roosevelt Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. Look at the map on p. 640. What were the results of the Roosevelt Corollary? In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s‚ the United States continued to maintain they had greater interest in the Latin America region than European nations. In 1900‚ the
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Doctrine of Piercing the Veil of Corporate Entity Requires the court to see through the protective shroud which exempts its stockholders from liabilities that they ordinarily would be subject to‚ or distinguishes a corporation from a seemingly separate one‚ were it not for the existing corporate fiction (Lim vs CA‚ 323 SCRA 102) Extent: The application of the doctrine to a particular case does not deny the corporation of legal personality for any and all purposes‚ but only for the particular transaction
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