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      History and the Law

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      History and the Law

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      History and the Law book

      ByJames V. Calvi, Susan Coleman
      BookAmerican Law and Legal Systems

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      Edition 8th Edition
      First Published 2016
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 25
      eBook ISBN 9781315623276
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      ABSTRACT

      All societies develop methods of resolving conicts among their members. Some are formally organized, such as the court systems in the United States, while others are much more primitive; but it is imperative that the rules governing a society be enforced if chaos is to be prevented. The need to maintain order in society is not recent. Ancient civilizations created laws and legal systems to control their members and to resolve conicts. Remnants of these legal systems linger, and many of today’s theories and practices may be traced to them. Cases such as Roe v. Wade, commonly known as the abortion case, are replete with historical references to other, older systems of legal doctrine.

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