MANGMT 3540 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Natural And Legal Rights, Legal Realism, Quran
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What protects societies from the extremes governments can take: rule of law. Rule of law keeps a free society the intact, orderly environment in which liberty best operates and protects the basic rights we have come to expect in. Tort reform - desire to limit huge amounts of money juries award to plaintiffs in tort cases. When one party sues another to obtain money because of an action, it is considered a tort, a civil wrong and a civil lawsuit. Our country has a common law legal system. The primary legal doctrine upon which the common law is based is stare decisis. Early on in our nation"s history, the supreme court determined that it would not enforce any unconstitutional statue. School: unalienable rights, governments are responsible to a higher universal authority, including the requirement that governments honor basic human rights. Laws of highest priority in state law: state constitutions, statutes adopted by legislatures, state administrative rules, municipal ordinances.
