The end of Jurisprudence, viz. the Protection of Rights.—Importance of the Inquiry, as involving Human Happiness.—Confusion in the vulgar uses of the word Right.
Jurisprudence
A spiritual order, like that of the Roman Catholic Church, which does not propagate itself in direct descendants, may, under the favour of the State, possess lands with subjects attached to them, and may constitute a spiritual corporation called...
The names lex, and jus, that is to say, law and right, are often confounded; and yet scarce are there any two words of more contrary signification. For right is that liberty which law leaveth us; and laws those...
Meaning of Positivism-Analytical positivism of Bentham and Austin-Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law-Hart's Concept of Law-Dworkin's criticism-Hart-Fuller controversy-Hart-Devlin's debate-Modern trends in Analytical and Normative Jurisprudence-Rawls and Distributive Justice-Nozick and the Minimal State.
American democracy is based upon the belief that man, as a child of God, is capable of self-perfection; that he is therefore endowed with certain sacred rights; and that government is instituted of man to protect these rights and...
Jurisprudence (from Latin: juris prudentia -- by the activity of prudentes; advisors, experts), is the philosophy, science, study, and application of law, shuch as law of gravitation. In a legal sense, Jurisprudence is the rationale behind the existence of a norm.
An imaginary conversation on oratory, pleading, advocacy and counselling by Roman Historian Tacitus Date: 43 BCE I You often ask me, Justus Fabius, how it is that while the genius and the fame of so many distinguished orators have...
Our chief agency of lawmaking is judicial empiricism-the judicial search for the workable legal precept, for the principle which is fruitful of good results in giving satisfactory grounds of decision of actual causes, for the legal conception into which...
On Freedom “I Am Prepared to Die” Nelson Mandela’s Statement from the Dock at the Opening of the Defence Case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964 I am the First Accused. I hold a...
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor...
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