Basic Political Concepts by Paul deLespinasse

Author:Paul deLespinasse [Paul deLespinasse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788027223572
Publisher: Studium Publishing, 2018
Published: 2017-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

Laws, pseudo laws, and by-laws

The most important distinction to emerge from the categories created by the periodic table of human associations is between three different meanings all commonly pointed to by the word law:

1. A general rule of action enforceable by sanctions (government-as-legislator)

2. A non-general rule enforceable by sanctions (government-as-bandit)

3. A statement of the terms on which, and with whom, a government is willing to enter into voluntary associations (government-as-contractor)

Since these three meanings are so very different, using the same word to indiscriminately refer to all of them can only produce confusion. We will therefore stipulate that the word law will be used only to refer to the first meaning: a general rule of action enforceable by sanctions. For the other two meanings w e will assign the following terms (as shown in Table 6 ):

Pseudolaws: a non-general rule enforced by sanctions.

By-laws: a statement of the terms on which and with whom a government is willing to enter into voluntary associations.

Table 6 : Enforceable sanctions

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