LEGAL 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Fifth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Ruling Class, False Consciousness
28 Jan 2019
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Law creates false consciousness by granting rights. Universality and equality but in a fundamentally unequal social structure. The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep unfair bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread- anatole france. Doesn"t apply to rich people because they wouldn"t be found sleeping under bridges or stealing bread so not really as equal as people think. Are the classes that unified in their desires. Does everyone in the ruling class recognize and act in the interests of what their class wants. Does not always act in ways that promote upper class vs lower class. Ruling class does to help out working class example is social welfare programs ensuring access to medical care social security administration. How to explain laws that regulate the behavior of capital redistribute resources downward. The government"s power to take private property for public use for fair compensation.
