LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Procedural Law, Indian Act, Human Nature
21 Mar 2017
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Law as a tool to implement social engineering and social changes guided by the resources to the law such as: slavery and racial discrimination, death penalty, abortion, adoption, indian act, taxes, and human rights, woman rights. Law, although ubiquitous and seemingly indispensable, show a list a possible dysfunction. Restive aspects associated with its controlling functions. Possible discrimination inherent to the law (the poor, the indians ) The political nomination of judges (political inluence) Sociological discussion of law often take place within two ideal conceptions of society . Canada as a pluralist society aiming for compromise and corporations to achieve social order and harmony. Laws targeting a wider range of human interest towards the goal of well-being and social harmony. The primary function of law: integrity, to maintain (democratic) order and (economic) stability. Dispensing reward and punishment without bias no one is above the law the supremacy of the rule of law. Law as expression of (some) forms of domination.
