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
Freedom of municipal law, when pertaining to the state government, has its pros and cons. One pro is the lack of necessary for the state to review every policy that the city makes. Another is that the cities could work on ways to solve their own problems and allow more of the community’s voices to be heard. A corresponding con is the lack of connection between the cities and states that could further lead to a misuse of power. Also, if the cities feel that there is little to no authority acting over them, they could become power hungry and try to push policies that their communities disagree with.
Overall, in the process of understanding the relation between social order and the law, the consensus provides a clearer and more radical view. It shows society as what it really is. It presents society as a united force respecting and following the norms as to
The Problems of Municipal Administration written by Jane Addams described the problems of public administration in targeted social publics that affected the community, specifically she mentioned the inequalities and injustices of municipal administration. The author stars by pointing out the failure of municipal administration to address the issues emerging in society. The social changes brought by the increased of industrialization in the 18th century failed to address the necessities of society. Addams emphasized, “…failure in municipal administration, the so-called “shame of American cities,” may be largely due to the inadequacy of those eighteen-century ideals, with the breakdown of the machinery which they provided, and further, to the weakness inherent in the historic and doctrinaire method when it attempts to deal with growing and human institutions” (p. 51). The lack of adjustment between democracy and the study of the external conditions affecting the communities was a problems that governmental officials failed to take into consideration.
concentrates that law is purely used to promote good by the state. Furthermore, law should
General-Law Cities are usually under a population of 5,000 or cities that have not adopted the home-rule style of government. With the state limiting the size of council, they also specify duties of the mayor, municipal officials, and emplacing additional boundaries on matters that home-rule can determine themselves. A downfall to this style of leadership is that with the small size getting someone with knowledge to come in and effectively manage the city and its
The main focus of this essay will be to examine the reasons behind the laws that
Though the goals of the Municipal Court are admirable it seems that all of them aren’t very realistic or actually being put into practice due to the high volume of cases that they have to manage. For example, the staff of the Municipal Court is supposed to treat everyone with respect and integrity. Sometimes it has been the case that the staff is very
imposed upon the mayor by this charter and such other duties consistent with the mayor's
We can see how the behavior of the police it has a huge impact on these neighborhoods, which are known to have an extreme disadvantage of social disorganization. These bad performances of the law it creates a decline and rupture of informal social control networks on the communities. They start forming a connection between crime and structural disadvantage by weakening the factors, which I mention before as informal social control networks. The study shows the mistreatment and marginalization on the disadvantage community by the misconduct of the police and excessive of force in the arrests, it leads to insufficient of understanding of the fairness of the law-making process. I can say police misconduct and legal cynicism are the factors that reflect the reduction in legitimacy, which lead to the increase of crime levels in the neighborhoods. Police misconduct and the excessive of authority it leads to the reduction of legitimacy in the way the police shows its difficulties to understand their legal rational
If the decisions of the city’s governing agents are not thoroughly respected as just and cohesive parts of society, the very structure by which the society stands is subject to collapse. If a person is found to be in violation of what his society stands for and does not accept the consequences for his actions, then there can not be a system of law in place to create order. "You must either persuade it or obey its orders, and endure in silence whatever it instructs you to endure, whether blows or bonds, and if it leads you into war or be wounded or killed you must obey."(Crito p.53b) The society in which a person lives creates a mutual relationship in which every person in that society is indebted to, if he willingly accepts that society for his own.
Government encourages each resident to sustain appropriate conduct. Efficiently run communities abide by the correct behavior the authority institutes. To establish reverence in society, authorization constitutes impartial court systems. During our first
Sociologists have many perspectives when it comes to the examination of our laws. Three out of many theories of lawmaking processes are the Rationalistic model, Functionalistic view, and Conflict perspective. Rationalistic models view laws as a rational way of increasing protection for members of society from crimes which are “socially injurious” (Vago 2012). Functionalist view look at where the ideas behind the laws come from and describes laws as “re-institutionalized customs”, where lawmaking is a reiteration of customs (Vago 2012). Conflict perspective describe laws as value the opinions of the elite, instill unequal access to economic goods which upkeep the social economical groups, basically keeps the elite on top (Vago 2012). The three theories are all similar but different at the same time. In my opinion, conflict theories captures the reality of law making process.
Initially, laws are difficult to design because lawmakers can’t think of every possibility, every scenario, and every obstacle that may present itself in the democracy. Despite these difficulties, laws keep society together and provide unity for the citizens. Advantages for creating laws, include, but are not limited to, providing direction for the collection of taxes, declaring clear expectations for compliance and punishment of citizens and elimination of chaos.
In order to address the scenarios in this assignment, one must define the when life begins. According to Thomas Aquinas God created the universe and all plants, animals and life of all types under the doctrine of External Law. Based on his vision, God instilled Natural Law in law to fulfill the parameters of External Law. Self-preservation is not only a function of protecting one’s self being, but also by ensuring the species survives. This is accomplished through the second inclination of procreation. Aquinas’ teachings proclaim that God created the universe and by doing so, created all life. So logic must dictate that life begins at conception and that the developing fetus has already been instilled with Natural Law.
And so it helps the Government in formulating suitable laws. In pursue its economic and social policies for e.g. law and legal propositions are not find or absolute. They are in the state of becoming. Accepted norms or principles whether statutory or as principle of justice, equity and good conscience are applied again and again to test its voracity or