Read and evaluate Bastiat’s The Law. More specifically, you are to:

  1. Identify, to the extent discernible, Bastiat’s ontology, epistemology, axiology, and teleology;
  2. Judge his use of political language. Does Bastiat define terms such as authority, power, liberty, equality, and justice biblically?
  3. Express and defend your general agreement/disagreement with the content therein.

The paper is to 2-3 pages in length in current Turabian format.

M/W4 – O. W. Holmes, Jr Paper

Read and evaluate the Harvard Law Review article entitled The Path of the Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. More specifically, you are to:

  1. Identify, to the extent discernible, Holmes’s ontology, epistemology, axiology, and teleology;
  2. Demonstrate which, if any, of Llewellyn’s 9-Point Manifesto of Legal Realism, are present in the article.
  3. Appraise the general tone and tenor of Holmes’ view of the nature and function of the law.

The paper is to be 2-3 pages in length in current Turabian format.

M/W6 – A Biblical Defense of Rights and Justice

In this paper you are to:

  1. Put forth a spirited, lucid, and above all, scriptural argument for the existence of the right to life, liberty, and property;
  2. Define justice considering the existence of said rights.
  3. In your analysis, utilize the conceptual distinction between negative and positive rights.

The paper is to be 2-3 pages in length in current Turabian format.

Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 6.

M/W8 – The Future of American Jurisprudence

In this 4-5 page paper, written in current Turabian format, you are to:

  1. Briefly review the basic premises of the major schools of jurisprudence—biblical/natural, legal positivism, legal realism, and critical legal theory;
  2. Assess the state of the current American legal landscape; and
  3. Predict, using sound logic, the future of American jurisprudence.