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13 Cards in this Set
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John Rawls |
Compared law to scientific theory-Shaped theory of original position |
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Plato/Socrates |
Most influential thinker in the history of the world- thought of socratic method, which is defined on the ideas in dialogue. |
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Aristotle |
Came up with the concept of the rule of law |
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Thomas Hobbes |
Wrote Leviathan- came up with social contract(create a state that could protect them from predation and exploitation) |
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John Locke |
opposite of Hobbes- described state of nature as inferior to the organized political state only because of its lack of law |
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Karl Marx |
thought of conflict perspective; insists that conflicts are always settle in favor of the ruling class in any society |
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Max Weber |
-Most famous work Economy and Society -argued law was different from other kinds of rule following in three fundamental ways; (1) external pressures make you obey law,(2) these external pressures involve threat of force,and (3) these threats are carried out by agents. |
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John Austin |
Came up with the command theory of law(it is possible and valuable to have morally neutral descriptive theory of law) |
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HLA Hart |
he held that legal rules to be threats backed by sanctions and statements of legal obligations as predictions that the threatened sanctions will be carried out |
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Ronald Dworkin |
"The law is whatever follows from the constructive interpretation of the institutional history of the law" |
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Lawrence Friedman |
Wrote "What is a legal system?" |
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Henry David Thoreau |
shared opinion that the best government was the the type that governed least |
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John Adams |
came up with the rule of law that law should govern a nation |
