LEGAL 250 Midterm: Legal Studies Midterm Review
28 Jan 2019
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All men have the inherent right to life liberty and property. Government should be designed to protect those rights. If it doesnt the people have a right to overthrow it. Law is the set of rules that derive from transcendent principles of goodness law is always derived from some supra-human source like god"s will or morality. There are standards against which a rule we are examining must be consulted before that rule can properly be called law. Get into a lot of details about weather or not policy furthers human context. Careful study of human nature careful consideration of nature. Associated with saint augustine helped formulate ideas of natural law theory from religious point. Made by a lawmaker who has not exceeded his or her authority. Example is laws that discriminate about people based on race. Everyone pays different amounts, loop holes does. One whose burdens are imposed fairly on citizens not apply equally to everyone.
