JUST-201 Lecture 1: Chapter 1: Law and Its Function and Purpose

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12 Feb 2017
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What is culture the six primary characteristics of. Opens up talking about life in iraq and how even though the law is written relatively democratic, without people enforcing it, it is not followed. This chapter explores the cultural underpinnings of law, its functions, and how ancient philosophers and early sociologists have viewed it, and introduces the idea of natural law. (2) The point is that law is a social institution, and to study it is to gain valuable understanding of one"s society, its heritage, its values, and its day-to-day functioning. (2) Excerpt from abe lincoln on law and phillip alott"s response. Law is the intermediary between human power and human ideas (2) Thomas hobbes definition of law - just a statue, commanding those things which are honest, and forbidding the contrary. (3) Law comes from latin wind meaning to bind. The 6 primary aspects of culture and their relationship to law.

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