In Plato's Five Dialogues, Socrates makes some pretty strong comments pertaining to the authority of the state government and its laws. These comments show up in both the Apology and the Crito. However, the fundamental claims Socrates makes in the Crito, are apparently contradictory with the ...

Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylonia. He became king in 1792 at a young age but was still very successful. In the early years of his reign, he mostly did traditional activities, such as repair their walls and their temples as Sargon and Ur-gur had done. He built great canals, uniting the ear...

Police Fairness Police Departments all over the country have their individual officers that abuse their power, officers on a power trip. This was just something I was thinking about recently, so I chose to make it the subject of my reflection paper. Since it's such a broad topic, I decide...

Why We Should Ban Handguns in the United States, by Nicholas Dixon is an interesting article. Dixon's thesis is that the number of handguns in the United States is directly proportional to crimes committed involving handguns here in the United States. In my opinion, the author does a good job...

During the course of a person's life it is not entirely uncommon for them to be accused of committing a crime that they are most certainly innocent of. In most cases the accusations are disregarded and the individual is largely unaffected by it. Unfortunately though, there are man...

Gideon vs. Wainright In June 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon, a fifty-year-old man, with a prior arrest record, was arrested in Panama City, Florida. He was charged with breaking into a pool hall. The things that were stolen were beer, coke, and change from a cigarette machine. Gideon claimed innocence...