ABSTRACT
Law is a historical phenomenon, a product of cultural development. It appears only at a certain level of this development, after a certain degree of advance has been reached both in ethics and in power, i.e., in the phenomena out of which law is created. As a historical phenomenon, law is dynamic. After the possibility of using power in the service of ethics was discovered, law gradually came to constitute the everyday framework of social life, with ethics unsupported by power and power not limited by ethics as phenomena of secondary importance. Power was the agency which led to the differentiation of ethics, or putting it more exactly, to the separation of the legal branch; for other forces were responsible for the separation of morals. "Mature law" is the product of a gradual transformation to which the entire system of the legal coordination of human behavior has been submitted.
