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Deborah Rhode's Access To Justice

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This paper provides a critical response analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the author, Deborah Rhode’s, position in her article, Access To Justice. Accordingly, this exploration yields an evaluation through consideration of key questions and concepts with correlations to various week three materials pertaining to punitive justice, hence, the passage selection choice for this analysis is “Defining the Goal: Access for Whom? For What? How Much? And Who Should Decide?”, which emphasizes the socioeconomic issue of inequality of justice through assertions that a disparate proportion of the United States population lacks access to adequate representation (Rhode, 2004, pp. 124-126). Subsequently, Rhode contends that the lack of access to

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