POLS-Y 211 Lecture 1: Intro to Law - Week 1
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Everything is defined by the origin and development of your thinking. Try to think like your opponent"s, try outside of the box and your regular confines. Don"t ask questions you don"t know the answer to. Law provides some resolution or remedy to every wrong, but this does not always mean justice. Justice is a utopian idea, separate from the realities of law. For example a neighborhood association administers several rules such as: These are rules but not truly law as membership and compliance are essentially voluntary, there is no formal application of force meaning no final authority to enforce the compliance. To govern a community is not a characteristic of law because although the. Neighborhood association rules help govern the community there is no authority which is a fundamental of law. Law is a type of social authority that involves uniform (i think he means unified) sanctions through punishment. Law requires the presence of the centralized authority (the government)
