RELI 1710 Study Guide - Garrett Hardin, Maude Barlow, Intellectual Disability
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Origins and scope of the concept of person in law and how concepts of legal personality change over time: origins and scope of the concept of property and how concepts of property change over time. A foundational course in law studies and pretty darn interesting terms in contemporary applications. Meet a cast of characters this term and, in getting to know them, will think about the nature of person and property in private law. Sir william blackstone: english judge and professor, produced his commentaries on the laws of england between 1765-1769, still regarded as an important source on classical views of the common law and its principles . Henry maine: movement of progressive societies has been from status to contract , shift in social form and economic form. John locke: nature of the individual, freedom of the individual from the state. Susan b. anthony: american, wrote, campaigned and challenged the exclusion from the list of legal person.