Product Description: What should society or individuals do when the compelling dictates of personal conscience conflict with the law? To what extent should lawyers and lawmakers be influenced by considerations of morality? Are there principles that go beyond legal jurisdiction to justify acts of civil disobedience? Is it right to violate the laws of society when they are opposed to personal moral convictions? Is it ever appropriate for religious considerations to influence lawyers or the law? Few questions have had and will continue to have a more compelling effect on the human community...read more

A collection of articles addresses the conflict between the protection of civil liberties and the maintenance of national security in the face of terrorist threats, and covers such topics as racial profiling, domestic surveillance, and the designation of'enemy combatants.'

Product Description: On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts began performing marriages of same-sex couples. That state's Supreme Judicial Court had ruled in Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health that "barring an individual from the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution...read more

Essays cover the abortion situation before Roe v. Wade, Christians and abortion, abortion and the Constitution, abortion and moral philosophy, and the feminist perspective.

Product Description: The amazing transformation of society brought about by the wide dispersion of computers has given rise to new moral dilemmas. With the rapid development of this technology, the impact of computers on privacy, personal identity, intellectual property, and the form and practice of democracy is becoming more apparent every day...read more

Explores the definitions, origins, and outcomes of intolerance in America, covering such topics as gay bashing, school shootings, and hate groups.

Essays detail the relationship the media has with its audience, sponsors, owners, and the government, and explores if limits should be placed on the media's role in attracting viewers, readers, and listeners

A collection of essays addresses such issues as censorship, women's rights, the relationship of pornography to violence, morality, and freedom of artistic expression

Provides materials offering a variety of points of view on the origins of homosexuality, sodomy laws, gays in the military, religious questions, and related issues

Essays discuss the nature of prejudice, racial stereotyping, the multicultural movement, political correctness, racism, and social change through government policy

Presents articles debating the use of animals in scientific research

Essays discuss active and passive euthanasia, the right to die, and the care of the terminally ill

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