The Law

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This paper explains the idea of the law within the context of any legal system existing as a tool of social engineering is a controversial one; however, the concept of the law as a tool of social engineering goes back as far as Plato?s ?Republic?. The author points out that the law?s potential for social engineering does not simply uphold the necessity of protecting the rights of women and minorities in an increasingly pluralistic society, but also calls for stricter standards regarding home schooling to retain the ability of society to have some say in how its children are educated. The paper concludes that social engineering under the law can be a form of preventative legal medicine, enhancing the ability of offenders and dependants of the system to reform their codes of ethics and become responsible members of society, as well as a way of protecting the rights of individuals.

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"Implicit as well in the decision regarding Brown as well is the idea that how United States law treats individuals can change individuals' mindsets and internal self-perceptions. One of the arguments for Brown was not a purely legal one, but that it was necessary to overturn the 1896 precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson, because African-American's self-esteem was being injured. To take another example of how self-esteem may be socially engineered and codified in a negative fashion, women during the 19th century, when they married, were forced to give all of their property over to their husbands. For this reason no women were allowed to vote, partly because it was assumed that a married woman would always vote according to her husband's behest, thus her vote was null and void, an unmarried woman would vote like her father told her to do so."

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