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Law As Primary System Of General Rules
WHETHER LAW IS PRIMARY SYSTEM OF GENERAL RULES OR THE LEGAL ORDER AS CONGLOMERATION OF CONCRETE DECISIONS BY LEGAL TRIBUNAL
- Law is always a general statement
- This is viewed as a mainstay of the ideology of liberalisme
- Equity was justified correction of law where it waas defective because of its generality. A silent goddess who cannot be heard.
- Generality principle and liberalisme:
- Citizens should be free from domination by governement officials, and the individual freedom maybe limited only by impersonal rules not by capricious personal directives from above.
- Judiciary should apply to impersonal rules.
- The people can predict the future consequences of their activities and is able to plan their lives.
- The equal treatment of person under the law >< No exception.
- Competitive society based on free enterprise requires rationality, certainty and calculability because the probable of private economic decisions must be foreseeable.
- Benefical to enterpreneurial freedom.
- No privileges
- Towards concentration of industry and decreasing importance to the notion of generality in law.
- The economy of concentrated power may arise a necessity for giving treatment to a large corporation.
- American Legal Realist, The German Free Law Movement:
- Judges should be at liberty to modify of the enacted law > equity and justice
- Gaps in the law must be filled > the general principles of fairness, ambuguities > open ended persuit of substantive justice.
- Campaign against logical preposition , the litigated case into the conceptual framework.
- Law had a past oriented and a future oriented aspect
- From rule thinking to decision thinking.
- Free scientific research.
- Every judicial act is an actualization of general preception security, liberty and equality.
- The lacks general statement:
- Rigidity, is not conducive to the achievement of justice.
- The reasons: differences of human personality, varieties of human activities, the restless inconsistency of human affair.