HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Indictable Offence, Religious Text
Document Summary
The limits of freedom: hate propaganda: v. keegstra [1990] 3 s. c. r. Introduction: completion of second segment of course on legal moralism cases on hate propaganda (keegstra) and pornography /obscenity / indecency (butler and. The common thread in this second segment of the course: mill"s harm principle. [t]he sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. (p. 294) Devlin"s legal moralism and the butler and labaye cases. Important material for a number of reasons: the interconnection between theory and practice: how the theory informs and elucidates the practice; how dworkin"s chain theory of law works in the three cases.
