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Jurisprudence |
The philosophical interpretation of the meaning of law. Covers topics such as definitions of the law, the reason for making and obeying laws, characteristics of a good law, the definition of a crime, and the distinction between law and justice |
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Natural law |
Theory that laws are derived from unchangeable principles that regulate the natural world and that people can become aware of these laws through the use of reason |
Moral obligation Parents protecting offspring |
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Positive law |
Theory that laws is formulated by the state and that citizens are obliged to over for the good of the state as a whole. |
Traffic laws |
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Dialectic |
The prosess of clarifying an idea through discussion |
Root word dialect |
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Justice |
The state of being that occurs when all the powers of an individual or a society are working together for the good of the whole. |
Individual or society |
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Utilitarianism |
The theory that laws should achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people. |
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Marxism |
An economic and political theory rush states that law is an instrument of oppression and control that the ruling classes use against the working class |
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Legal realism |
School of legal philosophy that examines the law in a realistic way (rather than theoretically) THE BELEIF THAT LAW IS DETERMINED BY WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE COURTS, AS JUDGES INTERPRET AND APPLY LAW |
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