POLS 2350- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Don"t read every word, just what is discussed in class. This happens from self-conception and practical experience. Court law bound to written/legal politics follow constitution. Primacy of legal norms and instruments not allowed to do it until it is fully legal. Legal rules can be argument stoppers and run into constitutional problems. Ex. supreme court needs 5 of 9 judges to agree to make it a law, but they can say, you agree with me this time, i"ll side with you next time . Hart nothing concise enough to be recognized as a definition could provide a satisfactory answer . Austin law is a command of the sovereign (following hobbes") Positivists are distance from morality, they are about power and force. Social contract theory hobbes and locke: we agreed to it and to disobey is treason. The state of nature explains why we need government and laws.
