CRM/LAW C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Indentured Servant, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
19 May 2016
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Legal mechanisms changes in legislation, constitutional interpretation, case law, administrative law. How social, economic and cultural factors affect the law. In the early years of our nation, racial discrimination was institutionalized and enforced by law. Later, the law forbid racial discrimination and protected civil rights. Emile durkheim law is the product of social consensus (shared moral values) Karl marx law is a tool used by a dominant elite to protect their economic interests. Max weber law is the result of a formal, rational process of deliberation (bringing rules into alignment with our principles) We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several. States which may be included within this union, according to their respective.
