Law and Constitutionalism
This type of law include crimes against the state, including assault and murder, that seek to harm or endanger citizens.
What is Criminal Law?
The "greatest good for the greatest number" is often a phase denoting this term.
What is Utility or Utilitarianism?
The classical form of this ideology focuses on the individual while taking a negative view of State involvement.
What is liberalism?
This constitutional amendment, passed in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This type of constitution is written down and includes several sections or articles.
What is a Codified Constitution?
In Plato's Republic, this Greek defined justice as "the interest of the stronger."
Who was Thrasymachus?
What is Freedom of Worship?
Frederick Douglass used this annual U.S. holiday to compare the theoretical and real-life freedoms that slaves had in America in the 1800s.
What is the Fourth of July?
In 1848, this French philosopher wrote The Spirit of the Laws, which greatly impacted the Framers of the U.S. Constitution.
Who was The Baron de Montesquieu?
This English philosopher took a quantitative view of utility while famously comparing poetry to the children's game, pushpin.
Who was Jeremy Bentham?
This would be classified as the freedom of live, associate, and freely express identity.
What is Social Freedom?
"A House Divided Cannot Stand" is a famous line about "the slavery question" spoken by this resident of Illinois and our 16th president.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This type of law, gradually built case by case through incorporating various rules and statues, originated in England.
What is Common Law?
Robert Nozick made a slam dunk by creating the _______ _______ _______, countering Rawls's difference principle by stating that basketball players and other high-earners should get to keep all of their money.
What was the "Wilt Chamberlain Argument?"
This man, born in modern-day Latvia, conceived of "positive" and "negative" subtypes of liberty focused on how able you are to act on your own will apart from outside coercion.
Who was Isaiah Berlin?
This landmark Supreme Court case under the chief justiceship of Roger B. Taney was an important
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This true form of government from Aristotle's Politics is characterized by few ruling for the common interest.
What is Aristocracy?
This Rawlsian concept states that justice should be chosen under this idea, part of which is a item used in marriage ceremonies.
What is the 'Veil of Ignorance?"
What is Welfare Paternalism?
This "wave" of feminism fought for the social equality of women, and helped found the National Organization for Women and the failed Equal Rights Amendment.
What is "Second-Wave" Feminism?