LEGALST 100- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 18 pages long!)

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20-58: after slavery & the jim crow south, many think that racial caste no longer exists in the. Education: brown signaled the end of home rule for the south, civil rights movement, and civil rights laws passed by jfk in 1960s. Ii: law seeks to bring order and security. Iii: costin had good reputation among the parents in lynnfield and neighbors. To understand politics: understand the leadership, or the influence of that leadership, of a political association, aka the state. Definition of state: human community that has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within a given territory: force is a means specific and unique to the state. Politics: striving to share power or to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state: man dominates man. All men are created equal: although there may be differences (one man is stronger than the other, one is smarter, etc.