Law and Chaos

person or group of people who makes all the decisions, laws, and policies for the entire country. This means they adopt federal laws that will also apply to municipals. Would it make sense for the federal government to create laws regarding garbage collection, street signs or local public transportation? So why should they have all the power? Ergo, the power to make laws should be decentralized to the provincial governments because they prevent chaos, improve the country for the better, and take…

The fictional worlds of Franz Kafka’s Before the Law and Jorge Luis Borges’ The Lottery are built upon complex and expanding laws of chance that evolve to encompass the lives of the people who live themre. In both stories, a dichotomy is established between those in possession of the law, and those who are ruled below with very little comprehension of the laws that guide them. Though it would seem at first glance that the nobility and rulers benefit the most from these confusing and unjust…

common sense. The Egyptian goddess Maat was the goddess of justice, truth, balance, order, law and morality. Basically, the law followed the teachings of Maat, according to the priests, about what was right and wrong. No remains of written laws have been found. However, since the ancient Egyptians loved lists and wrote everything down they could, it would not surprise historians to learn they did write down some laws at least. Maat is sometimes in personed as a goddess regulating the stars,…

Consensus or general agreement is a concept that is oft seen in law, it is when there is a meeting of the minds between two or more parties. In jurisprudence, consensus often arises as a legitimating devise, this is especially so when with regards to contractualism. Contractualism refers to the social contract theory and the idea that without consent, no one can be subjected to the political power of another. Many works about the social contract have been produced but this essay will focus on…

civil disobedience to ensure the laws are not broken. As king, Creon wants to be both feared and respected by the citizens so that he doesn’t appear as a weak King. By enforcing strict laws, Creon feels that he is able to gain the citizens trust and prevent any types of threat and chaos+ from harming both the citizens and the city. From the audience point of views, this seems logical. However, Creon’s laws and decision to punish the citizens by death if they defy his laws are not justifiable.…

“Crito” is a dialogue written by Plato during 360 B.C.E. In the beginning of the dialogue, Socrates is in prison waiting to be executed. He is visited by his friend, Crito, which tries to convince Socrates to escape the prison. Crito and his friends had made arrangements so that Socrates can escape, but Socrates is unwilling to do so as he wants to go through his execution. Crito presents to him many arguments to try to persuade him to escape. One argument is if Socrates doesn’t escape, then…

like without our rights? It’d be chaos with little to no freedoms. We have whole documents dedicated to rights! We have the Constitution, we have the Bill of Rights, plenty of things stating that this country has rights, and are sticking to them. In America, laws are often made to fix something that has been going against the Constitution. Once a law is made it’s pretty much set into stone and posted on a wall. It’s quite difficult to crack concrete. Once a law is finally put through, then most…

Freedom is one of the nature liberties that everyone should have. However, the excessive freedom will cause the chaos to ruin the social orders. In the story of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of schoolboys are stuck on an island. They establish a peaceful society in the beginning, but the conflicts between the boys eventually result in the sorrowful ending that the island becomes a place where is filled with death and clutter. According to this story, the theme of freedom…

Order or Chaos Without authority our world would fall to pieces. We need to have an overhead power that keeps citizens in check. In the text, “Civil Disobedience”, it is argued that the government should back off and do less governing of the people or even maybe no governing at all. I believe this is false and we need an authority for our wellbeing. It is more beneficial for citizens and their well being when the government has control over society, puts effort into enforcing the laws, and…

Hammurabi’s Code was a set of laws that ruled the people of Mesopotamia in the eighteenth century. King Hammurabi gained control of the region where chaos and disorder reigned. The “Law Code of Hammurabi” was a huge slab of stone inscribed with the law codes, or decisions made my Hammurabi during his 40 year reign as King. Although there were other laws pre-dating Hammurabi’s Code, it is one of the most complete set of laws from ancient Mesopotamia. Hammurabi’s code tells about the economic, and…