Law World Versus Ordinary Citizens

Law World Versus Ordinary Citizens
Author: Ajay Srivastava
Publisher: BFC Publications
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2024-01-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9357644695

The basis of writing this book is to spread knowledge. Knowledge is unlimited and spread over several subjects. Knowledge in regular fields such as science, commerce or art is meant for career building as well as country’s growth. But this book is unique. Yes, this book is about awareness. The book consists of many questions about the law’s world of India. But an ordinary citizen is not in a position to ask questions to the law. There simple reply is that they are not answerable to ordinary citizens. When judges passes a wrong order then too the order is accepted in good faith as a right order. Now the question arises about how to fight wrong. The only answer is to spread awareness among citizens. When individual citizens in power and ego say they are not answerable. They ask questions as a citizen of India, not as power citizens or VIP citizens. In that situation, every citizen is answerable to their country in moral terms in a democracy, rest is a dictatorship. In this book, various references are given just to understand what is a land of law and what is going against the law. In these references sometimes the country’s name appears, religion, qualification or gender only to relate to law but no ill–will against anyone. It is advised not to think otherwise those are for reference only. Another point which is encouraged is ego, what type of ego do we possess in ourselves? I don’t have an ego or self-respect so I want to know which section of society has the highest ego. Picture appearing in mind are judges and lawyers and the rest of the powerful citizens like politicians come to court with folding hands sometimes. This is my debut book, in fact, I don’t want to be called an author. My only intention is that when you are actual and real, stick to your own identity. The idea of writing a book arose from various problems faced by a citizen of India but they failed to raise their voice against injustice in a strong way. What is injustice at the same time what is the law of the land? This needs a platform where they put up their voice against injustice. One of the media is books. So that well-educated people understand the problem of ordinary citizens. The book is written on facts and the best possible truth. I always want to communicate with my real reader which somewhere touches the reader's mind or heart. Writing in such a way where the reader is forced to say this is exactly what I want to say or some sort of satisfaction on the face of the reader. My book covers an entire section of society in a different manner either personally or as per the normal law of the land. First, create awareness then build an opinion on the particular issue. After that try for system modification, one person can not change the system but a group or society can do it. The author of this book is not a professional author in the field of writing books but has tried hard to put thoughts into writing.

The Legal Foundations of Inequality

The Legal Foundations of Inequality
Author: Roberto Gargarella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2010-04-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139485989

The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. They claimed that all men were created equal with similar capacities and also that the community should become self-governing. Following the first constitutional debates that took place in the region, these promising egalitarian claims, which gave legitimacy to the revolutions, soon fell out of favor. Advocates of a conservative order challenged both ideals and favored constitutions that established religion and created an exclusionary political structure. Liberals proposed constitutions that protected individual autonomy and rights but established severe restrictions on the principle of majority rule. Radicals favored an openly majoritarian constitutional organization that, according to many, directly threatened the protection of individual rights. This book examines the influence of these opposite views during the 'founding period' of constitutionalism in countries including the United States, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

The Constitution

The Constitution
Author: Michael Stokes Paulsen
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0465093299

The definitive modern primer on the US Constitution, “an eloquent testament to the Constitution as a covenant across generations” (National Review). From freedom of speech to gun ownership, religious liberty to abortion, practically every aspect of American life is shaped by the Constitution. Yet most of us know surprisingly little about the Constitution itself. In The Constitution, legal scholars Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen offer a lively introduction to the supreme law of the United States. Beginning with the Constitution’s birth in 1787, Paulsen and Paulsen offer a grand tour of its provisions, principles, and interpretation, introducing readers to the characters and controversies that have shaped the Constitution in the 200-plus years since its creation. Along the way, the authors correct popular misconceptions about the Constitution and offer powerful insights into its true meaning. This lucid guide provides readers with the tools to think critically about constitutional issues — a skill that is ever more essential to the continued flourishing of American democracy.

The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers
Author: Alexander Hamilton
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2018-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1528785878

Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.

The Rule of Law in the Real World

The Rule of Law in the Real World
Author: Paul Gowder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 131649554X

In The Rule of Law in the Real World, Paul Gowder defends a new conception of the rule of law as the coordinated control of power and demonstrates that the rule of law, thus understood, creates and preserves social equality in a state. In a highly engaging, interdisciplinary text that moves seamlessly from theory to reality, using examples ranging from Ancient Greece through the present, Gowder sheds light on how societies have achieved the rule of law, how they have sustained it in the face of political upheaval, and how it may be measured and developed in the future. The Rule of Law in the Real World is an essential work for scholars, students, policymakers, and anyone else who believes the rule of law is critical to the proper functioning of society.

Troubling Transparency

Troubling Transparency
Author: David E. Pozen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0231545800

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century’s challenges. Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad—how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate the creation of FOIA; its day-to-day uses and limitations for the news media and for corporate and citizen requesters; its impact on government agencies; its global influence; recent alternatives to the FOIA model raised by the emergence of “open data” and other approaches to transparency; and the theoretical underpinnings of FOIA and the right to know. In addition to examining the mixed legacy and effectiveness of FOIA, contributors debate how best to move forward to improve access to information and government functioning. Neither romanticizing FOIA nor downplaying its real and symbolic achievements, Troubling Transparency is a timely and comprehensive consideration of laws such as FOIA and the larger project of open government, with wide-ranging lessons for journalism, law, government, and civil society.

A People's Constitution

A People's Constitution
Author: Rohit De
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691210381

It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.

How Rights Went Wrong

How Rights Went Wrong
Author: Jamal Greene
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1328518116

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.

Worldly Ethics

Worldly Ethics
Author: Ella Myers
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0822353997

What is the spirit that animates collective action? What is the ethos of democracy? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics, in which citizens join together and struggle to shape shared conditions, requires a world-centered ethos. This distinctive ethos, Ella Myers shows, involves care for "worldly things," which are the common and contentious objects of concern around which democratic actors mobilize. In articulating the meaning of worldly ethics, she reveals the limits of previous modes of ethics, including Michel Foucault's therapeutic model, based on a "care of the self," and Emmanuel Levinas's charitable model, based on care for the Other. Myers contends that these approaches occlude the worldly character of political life and are therefore unlikely to inspire and support collective democratic activity. The alternative ethics she proposes is informed by Hannah Arendt's notion of amor mundi, or love of the world, and it focuses on the ways democratic actors align around issues, goals, or things in the world, practicing collaborative care for them. Myers sees worldly ethics as a resource that can inspire and motivate ordinary citizens to participate in democratic politics, and the book highlights civic organizations that already embody its principles.

Forgotten Americans

Forgotten Americans
Author: Isabel Sawhill
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0300241062

A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.