POLS-Y 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Positive Law, Praetor, Monism
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Classical beginnings and omissions (rome: the global empire, enter cicero (106-43 b. c. ) and his concept of law. True law is right reason in agreement with nature. Distinguishing between natural law and positive law. Establishing relation between natural law and positive law. The commonwealth is the coming together of a considerable number of men who are united by a common agreement about law and rights and by the desire to participate in mutual advantages . Law plays an important unifying function within a society. The commonwealth is a community of law. Law holds society together - assures its cohesiveness. It summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions = law commands us (people), averts us (people) Note: right reason = choosing the morally proper action to reach moral end. God, the source of law and the creator of man, posses right reason. Reason is the common possession of all men and god and.
