Read the case and answer the questions that follow. The police forced three people out of their home and into a police car. The individuals were blindfolded and were given no information by the police. They were taken immediately to a prison where they were placed into a large cell. A year later, they were still in the prison. They were not told why they were in prison, and they were never brought to trial. They were not allowed to have visitors or any contact with anyone outside of the prison.
Do you think this could happen in the United States? Why or why not?

No, this could not happen in the United States.

Explanation: Everything listed in this scenario blatantly violates the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. According to the 6th Amendment, the accused must be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation and have the right to a speedy trial; however, neither of these were provided whatsoever. Thus, this situation could not occur in the United States.

b.provides a written record of the transaction

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.