POLS 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peculiar Institution
20 Oct 2016
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Leave with the idea that everyone sees the law differently- and law and society. We gain rights by submitting to the law. Law is a reflection of society & unequal unjust society gets reinforced by. American law in the colonial period: how a norm or attitude is hardened into muscle and bone (p. 29, how culture and religion impact customs and cultures. The colonies had the advantage of being small, separated, and shared common ideas and were able to share their beliefs in order to make the law. Economy: how the economy impacts the law, the abundance of land separates british from colonists. There is a lot of land and most people could own land. In britain, people already own the land and the economy is already established. Peculiar institution of slavery: it was a legal institution- it was a custom that developed into laws, the topic of slavery slowly began to talk about race.
