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Pages in category "Legal advocacy organizations in the United States" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In a legal/law context: An "advocate" is the title of a specific person who is authorized/appointed in some way to speak on behalf of a person in a legal process. In a political context: An " advocacy group " is an organized collection of people who seek to influence political decisions and policy, without seeking election to public office.
The Romans were the first to have a class of people who spent their days thinking about legal problems, and this is why their law developed in a systematic and technical way. [205] Detail from the sarcophagus of Roman lawyer Valerius Petronianus 315–320 AD. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto.
Advocacy groups also exert influence through channels that are separate from the government or the political structure such as the mass media and through public opinion campaigning. Advocacy groups will use methods such as protesting, petitioning and civil disobedience to attempt to exert influence in Liberal Democracies. Groups will generally ...
Szemerényi's law, in Proto-Indo-European phonology: word-final clusters of vowels (V), resonants (R) and either *s or *h 2 are simplified by dropping the word-final fricative (*h 2 was phonetically itself probably a back fricative), with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.
According to the American Bar Association, Commission on Public Understanding, legal awareness is "the ability to make critical judgments about the substance of the law, the legal process, and available legal resources and to effectively utilize the legal system and articulate strategies to improve it is legal literacy".
Legal advocacy organizations in the United States (8 C, 121 P) Pages in category "Legal advocacy organizations" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
According to the government of Canada, social advocacy groups "comprises establishments primarily engaged in promoting a particular social or political cause intended to benefit a broad or specific constituency". Some advocacy organizations "solicit contributions or sell memberships to support their activities". [1]