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Definitions for various terms related to law, philosophy, and ethics, including concepts such as unjust and just laws, ubuntu, community, policy, executive branch, judicial branch, legislative branch, transcendence, apartheid, restorative justice, retributive justice, arbitration, capriciousness, utilitarianism, biosphere, stewardship, mirror neurons, civil disobedience, diy, monomyth, aggravating and mitigating circumstances, voting rights act, archbishop desmond tutu, harrisburg young professionals, death penalty, dr. King, j.l. Chestnut, jfk, and john lewis. This glossary is useful for students and lifelong learners seeking to deepen their understanding of these concepts.
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Any law that degrades human personality TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Any law that uplift human personality TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 a person is a person through another person TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 group of people who think the same way TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 a set of rules or course of action for society
The executive is the organ exercising authority in and holding responsibility for the governance of a state.Administrative law + executive order TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 The judiciary is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state.writes "case law"- precedent" TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.enact "statutory law" TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 visious people deserve pain? TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 a policy or system or segregation or discrimination on grounds of race
The biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. The two joined words are "bio" and "sphere". It can also be termed as the zone of life on Earth, a closed system, and largely self- regulating. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 the activity or job of protecting and being responsible for something TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another human.Example: a monkey opening a nut observes a human opening a nit and their neurons mirror each other. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 do it yourself (DIY) is the method of bulding, modifying, or repairing things without the direct aid of experts or professionals.
the hero journey is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed. TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 when a judge sentences a defendant after a guilty or "no contest" plea or a jury conviction, a variety of factors come into play. judges consider mitigating circumstances- factors that weigh in the defendants favor- and aggravating circumstance-factors supporting a stiffer penalty. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people. TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 Desmond Mpilo Tutu, CH (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 Harrisburg Young Professionals is a group of young, active, civic-minded professions who have a clear vision of Harrisburg
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
