POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roman Law, Full Collapse, Constitution Of The United Kingdom
7 Feb 2017
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January 18, 2017 (burke) today"s theme: the attack on abstract right and how to re/think power. What happened in 1688 is the model for how to think about good. Human beings cannot police themselves, people live in conflict, government ensures civil order think godwin. Government arose to restrain people"s passions: agree with social contractarians because government seems to be a human construct, disagree because government doesn"t not emerge from equal wills of all coming together. Lockian logic in price"s position: explores declaration of rights from 1688. A way to make precise the rules of succession to the crown. Basic method of succession is hereditary and didn"t change. Only thing that changed is the type of law, but not what it did: price"s view is that governments can be cashiered or toppled. B thinks this need for extraordinary subversion is unnecessary. Kings rule in the name of the common good.
