This article provides a historical view of the relation of state and society and of theories about their relation. Contents: The Ideas of 1789 on State and Society Importance of the Greek City-State The Impact of Christianity on State and Society Medieval Kingdoms and Estates The Sixteenth Century and the National State The French Revolution German Romanticism and Idealism English [...]
If we hold fast to the conception of the State as a legal association, acting under an ultimately sovereign constitution, through an immediately sovereign law-making body, we shall recognize that there is a large area of social life which the State will not touch, or, rather, will touch only at those points where the 'social' spills, as it were, over [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the law and justice. The law which has hitherto been in question is positive law: law which is declared and 'set' (positum): law which is recognized by the courts and actively enforced by their action (impositum). Positive law is a large term, which embraces many divisions. If you look at its origin, [...]