Political Science 1020E Lecture 20: POLISCI T2 - L20
11 Feb 2017
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A weberian bureaucrat: holds his or her office as property, performs defined tasks within a specialized administration. Make sense of the different systems of law: The rule of law: substitutes a government of laws" for a government of man". Moves past the arbitrariness of the government of man. Moves to legal-rational legitimacy and applies equally to everyone. Types of law: common law customs, traditions, precedents. Jude-made law: civil law written legal codes. Clearly defined and specified so they can be applied to almost every case. Jude-administered law; judges are not expected to interpret laws; not setting precedence. Medieval: monarchy limited by god, law, and corporate villages. Monarch"s prerogative, the monarch"s right to a given amount of power/rule. The church had the right to certain taxes/revenue stream, aristocracy had privileges and rights as well that set boundaries to the monarch"s power. This was imperfect bases for control because the monarch interpreted god, etc. Modern: beginning with french and american revolutions.
