CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Distinct Society, R V Drybones, Inductive Reasoning
18 Apr 2013
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What is law: rules that govern society, tells us what"s acceptable and what"s not, regulates conduct, backed and enforced by the state or authority, penalties for disobedience. How do we recognize some rules as being legal: rules of recognition , parliament and legistlative assembly of province, rules that govern law making. Judges are able to make laws as well. Why do we obey legal rules: habit of obedience. Comparing and contrasting the hobbesian view of human nature to the. Give up freedom to the sovereign and the sovereign makes law, enforces it, protects people from others: in hobbes" view, people only obeyed because they fear punishment and fear disorder. He believed that the sovereign could not enforce anything unless previously been authorized by the people and anything that the people did not like anything that the sovereign did then the sovereign wouldn"t be allowed to enforce that.
