Intro to Law and Justice- Teacher's Guide & Course Syllabus
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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 “…repeatedPrice $80.00Original Price $100.00Save $20.00
Designed for teachers, this digital download product includes the full 13-week COMPLETE lecture video links, Teacher's Guide/ Syllabus as well as the PPTs designed to enrich your learner’s understanding of the text: Whatever Happened to Justice by Richard Maybury and Frederick Bastiat's, The Law. IPrice $136.00Original Price $170.00Save $34.00
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This resource includes a digital download of the full 13 week course syllabus & Teacher's Outline (PPTs can be purchased separately or in the BUNDLE) aimed at enriching your learner’s understanding of Common Law from the texts: Whatever Happened to Justice by Richard Maybury and Frederick Bastiat's The Law. Updated to October, 2023
Designed for companion or independent study, I provide text specific discussion questions, appropriate cultural literacy terms, supplemental videos, discussion topics and recommended literature for your use. Week Thirteen is reserved for final presentations with a Kahoot review at Week Eleven.
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
