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- The law enforces morality when it imposes sanctions on its subjects to increase their compliance with its norms.
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enforcement of morals: statutory legislation and judge-made law. When the legislator adopts a statute regulating some aspect of. morality, the enforcement of morals is seen as a matter of policy. at the political level: no government is likely to adopt a law that.
Nov 19, 2015 · The Intersection of Morality and Law. For citizens and residents, there can be a moral obligation to follow laws that are unenforced or under enforced.
May 19, 2016 · The law uncontroversially enforces much morality that concerns preventing harm to people. Moral judgment is needed to determine what count as relevant harms and to decide what are appropriate bases for legal regulation; but whether law should enforce some aspects of morality is genuinely disputed.
This thesis attempts to discover out of the debate between Lord Devlin and H.L.A. Hart the theoretical basis of decision-making in cases where there is a conflict between individual moral freedom and social control.
- John Harington Wade
- Wade, John Harington
- 1971
- 1971
Dec 15, 2021 · Morality can, he argued, influence the law, but it is not synonymous with the law. On the other hand, laws against dangerous driving (or, say, murder), for example, are no doubt influenced by morality, but they are also part of social-bureaucratic order.
Jan 29, 2022 · it can be morally legitimate to prohibit conduct on the ground that it is inherently immoral, even though it causes neither harm nor offence to the actor or to others. (Feinberg 1984: 27, emphasis added)