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Civil rights are a class of rights that ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression...

Nonviolence, Ahimsa, and Nonviolent resistance Civil disobedience refers to the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or...

The American Civil War (ACW), also known as the War of the Rebellion, the Great Rebellion, and several other names, was a civil war that was fought in...

administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. In both common law and civil law legal systems, courts...

actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. Henry Ward Beecher, "Civil Law and the Sabbath" (sermon delivered...

International law or the law of nations refers to laws that govern the conduct of independent nations in their relationships with one another. It differs...

The legal system of India consists of Civil law, Common law, Customary law, Religious law and Corporate law within the legal framework inherited from...

religion, the more there ought to be in the civil laws. Ch. 14: In What Manner Religion has an Influence on Civil Laws The most true and holy doctrines may be...

is the pre-trial phase in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from the opposing party by means of discovery...

our nation’s most vital civil rights laws. Today is the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This landmark law made it illegal to discriminate...

Legal remedies are the means with which a court of law, usually in the exercise of civil law jurisdiction, enforces a right, imposes a penalty, or makes...

The Irish Civil War (Irish: Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied...

calculus of personal injury law, a dead child is worth the least of all. The odd's of a plaintiff's lawyer winning in civil court are two to one against...

Uniform civil code is the ongoing point of debate within Indian mandate to replace personal laws based on the scriptures and customs of each major religious...

a common law legal system that sets the maximum time after an event that legal proceedings based on that event may be initiated. In civil law systems,...

Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a Conservative British statesman and Prime Minister from 1922 to 1923. We who represent the...

Civil Disobedience (1849) is an essay by Henry David Thoreau expressing his belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their...

areas of civil litigation, intellectual property, and civil rights law at Gura & Possessky, PLLC. Gura is prominent in the field of firearms law and the...

The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) took place from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-wing Second Spanish Republic, in alliance...

matters. In civil law systems, a magistrate might be a judge in a superior court; the magistrate's court might have jurisdiction over civil and criminal...