PHLB11H3 Lecture Notes - Formal System, Religious Text, Social Fact
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Law and morality the legal relevance of a moral conscious. Whether or not the moral outrage to a particular decision of the law, was relevant in their jobs and roles as justices law is indisputable, negating the effects of morality on decisions. What is a law? the law protects us from each other though rules. Enforce through institutions, legislator, judiciary, police, prison system. Not just a list of rules but a system of rules. Most basically, law is regulatory. laws are rules. But the law is not merely the list of rules, rights and prohibitions; it is also the functioning of a. Formal system friendship has rules but is not is a formal system with an included enforcement agency the law also included the institutions that create, interpret, and enforce those rules. Not merely laws, but laws about laws. not all laws are created equal" there are higher and lower order laws.