Intro to Law and Justice- *Bundle Pack* Full Course PPTs and Teacher's Guide

This bundle includes a digital download of the full 13-week course: PPTs, complete syllabus & teacher guide aimed at enriching your learner’s understanding the origins of Common Law, the varying forms of government established in history and identifying what roles man has played when “…repeated injuries and usurpations” are the norm vs. the exception.

Designed for companion or independent study, I provide 15-31 slides per lesson with text specific discussion questions, appropriate cultural literacy terms, supplemental videos, writing topics and recommended literature. This course is mixed content- Whatever Happened to Justice? by Richard Maybury and Frederick Bastiat’s The Law, additional current event articles and video will be integrated throughout. Week thirteen is reserved for final presentations, Kahoot review included in at week 11.

We will be discussing the following principles of law, definitions, terms, and forms of government-

Week One: Author Viewpoints/ Beliefs, Worldviews: Statism vs. Juris Naturalism, Higher Law; Old Common Law, Economics, Law, Politics, Government, Founding Fathers: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, Bill of Rights

Week Two: Scientific vs. Political Law; English Common Law: Feudal Governments, Precedents, Case Law, Restitution, Outlawry, Wergild, Contract Law, Criminal/ Torte Law, Natural Law

Week Three: Statesman, Separation of Church and State, Origin of Rights: Redistribution of Wealth, Legalized Plunder, Voluntary Charity vs. Welfare/ Subsidy State, Incentive, Profit Motive, Principles of Self-Reliance, Totalitarianism, Left and Right Sides of Government; Socialism; Forms of Government: Despotism, Totalitarianism, Aristocracy, Republic, Democracy

Week Four: Customs become Law; Logic, Force, Laws of Morality; Ambient Encroachment; Contracts: Tacit, Fraud, Agreement, Economic Calculation, Free Trade, NAFTA

Week Five: Rightful Liberty, Protection of Personal Property, Government Controls Against: Force, Fraud, Monopoly, Debauchery, Laws of Economic Freedom; Third Party Purchases; Invisible Hand of Free Markets, Specialization of Trade

Week Six: Government vs. Politics; Divine Mandate and Divine Right of Kings; Republic vs. Democracy; Political Law; Citizens: Rights and Responsibilities; Natural Rights: Negative vs. Positive

Week Seven: Political Law Implications; Imperfections of Common Law, Courts of Equity, Star Chamber, Trial by Combat, Liberties vs. Permission, Magna Carta: Personal & Digital Rights

Week Eight: Right-to-Life, Nuremburg Trials, Democracy: Dangers of Majority Rule, Shay’s Rebellion, Federal Government & Constitution of United States: Protecting Liberty

Week Nine: Liberals vs. Conservatives, Political Power vs. Corporate Influence; Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian Dissident on Media; Role of Peace & Police Officers, Power-seekers Priorities; Sources and Laws of Civic Power: Tiananmen Square; Language of the Unheard: Riots, Social Injustice, Civil Rights

Week Ten: Latin American Revolution: Simon Bolivar, Abundance of Savings/ Seed Corn; Capital Gains & Inheritance Tax, Federal Debt to GDP; Origin of Government: Tribute, Feudalism; Social Contract

Week Eleven: Checks and Balances; Public vs. Private Sector Employment & Kahoot Review

Week Twelve: Unsolved Problems: Risk, Capital Punishment, Environmental Sustainability, Drugs, War, Irredentism, Poverty, Capital Flight, Consumer Protection

Week Thirteen: Final Presentations