ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Northern Canada, Good Governance, Sovereign People
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Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people. People descent from the same language and ancestors, atached to the same principles and similar customs. Bizarre: there were segregated agriculturalists, own system of religious tradiions in diferent secions of the country. The idea of a single peoplehood with an emphasis on a single legal system and single jurisdicion that is not superseded by any other claims. Conined to the co-existence of internaional law, supranaional law. Transnaional law, eg. regulaing mulinaional corporaions and state law. Closely connected to the conlicts of law: in which jurisdicion is law to be applied, usually manifested in universalism (preference for internaional law) v. paricularism (preference for state law) Behaviour of the astute human actor: forum shopping: case or conlict outside of state law: possible to take this to another form, eg.