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Jurisprudence Part B "Can and Does Law reflect the values of a Community"
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Jurisprudence Part B "Can and Does Law reflect the values of a Community" The term 'value' is a problematic one. Values is one of those words that tends to be used rather vaguely and have a variety of different meanings. The dictionary describes it as an "intrinsic worth or goodness"1. In everyday usage 'values' are often used to refer to one or all of religious, moral, political or ideological principles, beliefs or attitudes. In the context of the community however, it seems frequently to be used to mean a set of fundamental moral or ethical principles to which the community is committed. A community itself is governed by laws. They are a necessity for maintaining order, its people, its possessions, all are within the influence of the law, but can and does the law reflect the values of its community? This I feel can be divided into two separate issues, one clearly leading...
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