Law essentially serves two functions in modern, western, industrial society. First, it serves to order and regulate the affairs of all "persons", be they individuals, corporations or governments. Secondly, law acts as a standard of conduct and morality, variously directed at individuals and groups, businesses and governments. In short, through both of these functions, the law seeks to promote a…
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This book is concerned with the origins of Muhammadan jurisprudence. I shall, of course, often have occasion to refer to examples taken from Muhammadan law, which is the material of Muhammadan jurisprudence. But the history of positive law in Islam as such, and the relationship between the ideals of legal doctrine and the practical administration of justice fall outside the scope of the present…
We know that Napoleon tried to apply the ideas of the Contrat Social to the officers of his regiment; the idea of everyone's commitment to the whole was the essence of his conception of morale. Indeed, there is alive in Rousseau, especially in the Contrat Social, something of the spirit of ancient Rome, with its emphasis on the soldier and the marching column.