Download Q&A Jurisprudence 2011-2012 (Questions and Answers) by David Brooke PDF

By David Brooke

ISBN-10: 0203832809

ISBN-13: 9780203832806

ISBN-10: 0415599156

ISBN-13: 9780415599153

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To the care of the sovereign belongs the making of good laws. But ‘good law’ does not mean ‘just law’, because a law made by the sovereign cannot be unjust. Justice means, in practice, obedience to the law, and this is why, according to Hobbes, justice comes into existence only after a law has been made by the sovereign. Justice cannot itself be the appropriate standard for the law. indb 29 09/12/2010 10:48 30 Q&A Jurisprudence 2011–2012 law, he does so as though the citizens were making it collectively.

Natural law is often contrasted with the ‘positive law’, namely, the legal rules promulgated in formal fashion by the state and enforced through defined sanctions. A problem for students is to decide which ‘type’ of natural law is being referred to, since the term has been used in so many different senses. It is essential, therefore, to check the precise historical and juristic context of the term, particularly when answering questions on this topic. Checklist 4 Ensure that you understand the following topics: n natural and positive law contrasted; n natural law as an aspect of Divine providence; n Aquinas’s divisions of law; n the link between natural law and modern legal systems (the ‘common good’ view of law); n Finnis’s self-evident human goods.

A man should be willing, when others are similarly minded, to relinquish his rights to all things ‘and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself’. To refuse to part with one’s rights to all things is to act against the law of nature and ‘the reason of peace’. A third law concerns the duty of a man to carry out a contract to which he is a party. These laws are considered by Hobbes to be immutable and eternal; they have application to all societies and are supplemented by precepts, such as the need to avoid ingratitude, and the using of things in common that cannot be divided.

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