POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Positive Law, Street Children, Convention On The Rights Of The Child
24 Jun 2013
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How you enforce the law on the ground. Unless the law is enforced its weak and incomplete. Law precision of the law & the other side enforcement capacity. Front line people with the govt social workers, ministers. Political will (conventional/unwritten law) hard to quantify but without it, you will not go far, you need the political level to engage and be committed, if there is no political will law will not be effective. People look to their govts that this is an important area of their soc. The declaration is not something which is easily enforceable, but it is an important general statement. Like a general statement of intent, not just for the un but for all nations around the world. Natural view rights come from a higher power, idea that law comes from a higher power, john locke and kant. Positive law the codified version of the law, the constitution, laws.
