Chapter 14: Multiple Common Laws

Immanuel Kant

________ defined the concept of Right (Law) as that set of rules that enables the fullest expression of freedom compatible with an equal freedom in others.

Marx

________ reformulated the proper principle of distribution as "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

classical liberal ideal

The ________ holds that individuals are free to engage in private transactions as they see fit.

Karl Marx

For ________, the history of economic relations moved ineluctably from feudalism to capitalism (liberalism), and then- not so necessarily, it turns out- to socialism.

Aristotle

________ distinguished in the Nicomachean Ethics between distributive and corrective justice.

medical insurance

The state requires drivers and passengers to wear seat belts, motorcyclists to wear helmets, and individuals to pay premiums for ________ and retirement programs.

Judiciary Act

The federal courts interpreted the ________ to mean that they should apply the law of state in which they sit.

Liberal legal theory

________ is committed to the idea that private law should enforce the principle of corrective justice and only the principle of corrective justice.

Feudalism

________ is historically the most significant alternative to liberalism.

Corrective justice

________ addresses the correction of individual instances of wrongdoing.

Aristotle

________ coined the famous maxim "To each according to his due ..

Judiciary Act

The first statute on the organization of the federal courts, the ________ of 1789, established the rule that in "trials at common law "the federal court should apply the "laws "of the several states.

Feudalism

________ restricts human freedom by tying individuals to their duties of loyalty and fealty to their feudal lords.