a) Explain the difference between Act and Rule Utilitarianism (25 marks) Throughout this essay I will be comparing the Act and Rule variations of Utilitarianism to uncover the difference between the two. Utilitarianism is teleological or consequentialist approach to ethics‚ which argues that something is good or bad according to its benefit for the majority of the people. Jeremy Bentham formalized this theory through his principle of Utility‚ “the greatest good for the greatest number”. Act Utilitarianism
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force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose‚ and is accompanied by federal law Article 42 Section 1983 which states‚ in layman’s terms‚ that a suit may be filed if a citizen is deprived of their federally protected rights by a person acting under the authority of the law (Cornell). It is also important to note that the most common violations are excessive force‚ false arrest (in correlation with the fourth amendment)‚ and failure to
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The idea of the rule of law can be traced back to at least the time of Aristotle who observed that given the choice between a king who ruled by discretion and a king who ruled by law‚ the later was clearly superior to the former. In more recent times‚ it is Albert V. Dicey who is credited with providing the logical foundation upon which the modern notion of the rule of law is based. Dicey did not invent the idea of the rule of law but he popularized it in the late nineteenth century. His book‚ Introduction
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RULES OF PROCEDURE The formal session will be declared by the Chair. ROLL CALL 1. Present- When delegate answers in a present‚ he can say Yes‚ No or abstain during voting for a resolution. 2. Present and voting- When the delegate answers the roll call in a present and voting‚ he has to vote decisively on a resolution and has the option of only saying a Yes or a No to the resolution during the voting. He cannot Abstain. QUORUM This is the minimum number of members required for the committee proceedings
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The rule of law is a legal maxim stating that no person is above the law‚ that no one can be punished by the state except for a breach of the law‚ and that no one can be convicted of breaching the law except in the manner set forth by the law itself. The rule of law stands in contrast to the idea that the leader is above the law‚ a feature of Roman law‚ Nazi law‚ and certain other legal systems. Albert Dicey British jurist A. V. Dicey popularised the phrase "rule of law" in 1885. Dicey emphasized
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Minority Authors Should be introduced in the classroom In talking about the kinds of literature students are reading in the classrooms‚ one only needs to look back on their own high school education to find the books that are considered “canonical” in Ontario classrooms. Works commonly cited will be Shakespeare‚ Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Golding’s “The Lord of the Flies”. As you can see in Table 1 (Stability and Change in the high school canon‚
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viewed equally in all societies. Sometimes‚ a minority group can be defined by constituting a smaller percentage of the population than another group. However‚ sometimes a minority constitutes the majority of the population. A minority group is a subordinate group which has significantly less control over their lives than a dominant group. As a result‚ the minority group has less opportunity afforded to them than the dominant group. Particularly‚ the majority of the population of the United States is
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Abstract Society has consistently overlooked minorities in identification of gifted and talented education over the past few decades. The purpose of this research paper is to show these consistencies do‚ in fact‚ exist and try to give some explanation as to why they exist and how we can overcome the negative tendencies of Underrepresentation of minorities in the school programs that are meant to identify gifted students regardless of the socio-economic background and race.
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college campuses” explains that strict censorship rules hurt students whose minds are still developing. Rules on censorship in a college setting are supposed to protect the rights of students. Censorship is supposed to protect them from extremely hate filled speeches‚ newspaper articles‚ and other documents. For example‚ defamation‚ lies‚ and uses of extremely hateful name calling such as the word “nigger‚” are all applicable to fair censorship rules. Today‚ the power of censorship has grown strong
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was a vital part of Italian society in the earlier 20th Century‚ Mussolini himself said that the Pope “represented 400 million people scattered (throughout) the world”. This meant that the pope and religion posed a massive influence on Mussolini’s rule and exercised a lot of power on all classes. Mussolini himself was atheist like his father and believed that science was made to prove religion wrong and that Jesus was a madman who had been mistakenly taken for a prophet‚ however publicly he relied
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