LAWS 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Unifying Force, Petite Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie
25 May 2018
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A society is a human group. These groups are about living together, societies need to be able to
maintain and replicate themselves
How n society do we obtain order?
How do we choose our society to lie by norms?
we ensure that there is no physical conflict, there is an authority that is able to subdue. We
enforce norms thru force and corrosion by the state
aarh is a state ithout… a goeret
how do anarchists order their society? Everyone contributes, not one person is more important
than the other. There is no enforcement in anarchism. existing thru society with good manners,
e all get alog ad if e do’t the there is o goeret to ake ou get alog.
If you reject that, you exist in a place with a state, the state enforces and uses corrosion
through making laws.
Why do we have law?
Because we are interested in rules of conduct, for ex: predictable behavior, enforceable.
The major advantages of law are that it provides stability, you know there is predictability
around it and you can plan your affairs that way
We tend to view the law from the perspective of people who are ruled.
What does the law do for the rulers?
The people in parliament who are lucky enough to get elected.
The la lets the otrol the asses. It’s good for the to hae las so the a efore their
will. It builds up and defends the sovereignty of government. The unifying force is the law. It
preserves the economic
The law prevents competitors from existing .. t tends to force them out
The state has been characterized ever since it came into society, the state, or constitution were
viewed as being like the whole society. The individualistic people say that the state is here to
serve us, in that model government derives its ability to govern thru consent. However, the
state can be characterized in a positive or negative way
Karl Marx: his theory of how the state works is based off how society worked in a capitalist
society. The bourgeoisie, one percent, the people that n property or the means of production. If
they need labor they buy it. The proletariat are the working class, people who have to labor for
a living because they do not own the means of production. Petite bourgeoisie, own capital but
have to work their capital in order to make money from it. there are in the middle btw these
classes. Lawyers doctors.
The state has three key functions
To have a state we need to have people. We need some territorial basis. A defined space. A
state of regulated by an administrative and legal order claiming to monopolize the legitimate
use of force. There are some laws that allow use of violence but they will evaluate you. There is
someone ability for someone to defend themselves. People are also allowed to kill during war.
The state does’t hae a rule that iolee is prohiited
States concerns
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