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Study Questions On The Law Of Nature And The Laws Of Human

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HUMA 1825 B Akram Saiyed Study Questions & Answers Student Number: 213985858 Attention: Course Director, Neil Braganza Email: saiakram@yorku.ca November 14th, 2014 Sir William Blackstone All page references are to Blackstone’s text 1. What are the characteristics of “municipal law” according to Blackstone? See 33-34, 39, 40-42 Blackstone commentaries state that there are two charities to municipal law or Muncipium (pl. municipal); the laws of nature and the …show more content…

Citizens develop this law to satisfy their wants and fears as individuals in the society as citizens live by their common interest but this sense of fear as holds the society in place together. Municipals law is about formulation, developing tools that have strength in numbers, establishes that all of us work together. It is then defined how parts obey the whole, so the whole can be possible. Without a superior authoritative, we fall into isolation because we need the supreme who govern us of ‘what is right and forbid what is wrong’ or Superior to the inferior, meaning, the whole to the part or state to the individual, which gives respect of their existence as citizens and the state not about citizen’s being a creature of God. The municipal law must be a general, it must be more than just an advice, and it must not be dependent by will of an individual. Both the willing and the unwilling must follow the law. It is a human free will. It is not an agreement; it must establish the bases of authority. However, acting and free will differentiate. We must not act but free-will and opinion to say anything must be allowed. It is therefore, limited and gives us certain rights to community to allow some possible speech. The law is not something that not found from the state but it applies to everyone. It must be made public and presented to the public ahead of time and the rules have to come from a supreme

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