Liberty
Essays

¶ … Slave is the 4th of July and David Walkers "Appeal"

When a person commits a murder, they not only have completed the act but also have engaged in intent, planning and implementation of the planned murder. Accordingly the crime of murder not only consists of the actual killing, but also the steps leading up to the crime. But when the crime of murder goes awry and a person's attempt to kill another fails, that person is treated differently than an actual murderer; they are accused of attempted murder. Because the intended murder is disrupted by unforeseen factors, and not by any change in the person's conscience, anyone who is charged with attempted murder should be treated by the legal system no different than someone who actually commits a murder.

As pro-democracy movements spread across a huge segment of the Muslim world in the spring and early summer of 2011, there was a tremendous amount of speculation that Iran would be the next totalitarian regime to join…

This paper is about the philosophy of providing basic health care for Americans. The prompt is "If social obligations to provide appropriate health care are not met, then individuals are definitely wronged. Injustice is done to them." This is discussed, drawing on Mills, Rawls and the libertarian objections to the author's proposition.

There is a current trend to support the right to suicide or to die with dignity. This trend does not reflect popular view and I do not support the view that one has the right to commit suicide or in other words the…

There are nearly as many ways to walk the path of virtue as there are historical figures who have written accounts on how to do so. One of the foremost authorities on the subject, Aristotle, provided several detailed…

This paper examines the suspension of habeas corpus in the context of the so-called war on terror. It examines the history of habeas corpus as a legal concept from the Magna Carta onward, and more specifically examines its prior history in America: its mention in the suspension clause of the US Constitution, its actual suspension by President Lincoln during the US Civil War, and its role in war-on-terror jurisprudence in the Supreme Court's Boumediene decision. The essay ends up taking the stance that habeas suspension and the war on terror both entail a dangerous and unwarranted expansion of powers for the executive branch of the federal government.

Like all other religious groups, the history of Rastafarian religion also commences before the group itself. Marcus Garvey, an influential black spokesman, born in 1887, had directed the philosophical ideologies that…

This paper presents a review in the ideas on stakeholders and the social benefits that come from corporations. A brief history of how corporations came to be is given. Further, discussions on the philosophies underlying the review of stakeholders, the interests held by the various stakeholders and how these interests have come to be safeguarded.

Slavery was inconsistent with the ideals incorporated in the Constitution and yet it was allowed by the founding fathers because they wanted to preserve the Union at all costs. We must here understand that it is…