Read and evaluate Bastiat’s The Law. More specifically, you are to:
- Identify, to the extent discernible, Bastiat’s ontology, epistemology, axiology, and teleology;
- Judge his use of political language. Does Bastiat define terms such as authority, power, liberty, equality, and justice biblically?
- Express and defend your general agreement/disagreement with the content therein.
Read and evaluate the Harvard Law Review article entitled The Path of the Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. More specifically, you are to:
- Identify, to the extent discernible, Holmes’s ontology, epistemology, axiology, and teleology;
- Demonstrate which, if any, of Llewellyn’s 9-Point Manifesto of Legal Realism, are present in the article.
- Appraise the general tone and tenor of Holmes’ view of the nature and function of the law.
In this paper you are to:
- Put forth a spirited, lucid, and above all, scriptural argument for the existence of the right to life, liberty, and property;
- Define justice considering the existence of said rights.
- In your analysis, utilize the conceptual distinction between negative and positive rights.
In this 4-5 page paper, written in current Turabian format, you are to:
- Briefly review the basic premises of the major schools of jurisprudence—biblical/natural, legal positivism, legal realism, and critical legal theory;
- Assess the state of the current American legal landscape; and
- Predict, using sound logic, the future of American jurisprudence.