HLTH-4780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Originalism, Poverty In The United States, Negative And Positive Rights
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To function as the main tool with which we organize ourselves as an advanced democratic society. How we organize ourselves and enforce that organization. Set of rules and guidelines to interact with each other. Enforceable by the state power of state to compel compliance. Pervasive- given the important societal role we assign to it- namely to serve as the tool with which we govern our relationships with one another, or government, and society at large. We are not left to wonder where it comes from or hot its is made. Can be seen in the updating of state public health laws, which before the tragic events of sept. 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax scare had not been updated in most states for over a century. Constitutions are charters establishing governments and delineating certain individual and governmental rights and obligations.
