Moral Legislation Research Articles

Marriage, perversion, and power: the construction of moral discourse in southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930

In search of realm - a theoretical and historical starting point, Gwelo District 1893 civilization and morality - Manichaean attitudes among occupiers of southern Rhodesia, 1890-1905 maidens and harlots - moral legislation, 1901-1912 part-time love affairs - changing marriage arrangements in Gwelo District, 1898-1914 the problem with - natives adultery punishment ordinance, 1916 pointing finger - ascriptions of blame in debate over adultery township trouble - urban sexuality in Gwelo District, 1916-1920 tradition and power - transformations of African marriage, 1914-1926 closing door - African women and European morality, 1916-1930.

Moral Legislation: A Legal-Political Model for Indirect Consequentialist Reasoning. Conrad D. Johnson

<i>Moral Legislation: A Legal-Political Model for Indirect Consequentialist Reasoning</i>. Conrad D. Johnson

Moral Legislation: A Legal-Political Model For Indirect Consequentialist Reasoning

Philosophical BooksVolume 33, Issue 3 p. 175-176 Moral Legislation: A Legal-Political Model For Indirect Consequentialist Reasoning ROGER CRISP, ROGER CRISP STANNE'S COLLEGE, OXFORDSearch for more papers by this author ROGER CRISP, ROGER CRISP STANNE'S COLLEGE, OXFORDSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1992 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0149.1992.tb02354.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume33, Issue3July 1992Pages 175-176 RelatedInformation

The Legislation of Morality

The Legislation of Morality

Quantity Illusions and Paradoxes of Drug Interdiction: Federal Intervention into Vice Policy

The control of crime has been a predominantly local responsibility through the history of the Republic. Similarly, the regulation of morality generally has been viewed as a local responsibility, with each community enjoying the freedom to choose its own moral legislation. The last decade, however, has witnessed the rapid growth of a federal police effort aimed primarily at enforcing drug regulations. Drug enforcement has become a major federal responsibility, though drug policy is treated as the regulation of vice markets. This federal intervention is justified on the basis of paternalistic concerns about the effects of the behavior on both the user and society generally. For example, the federal drug enforcement effort currently involves expenditures of approximately $2 billion' and provides a significant presence in cities throughout the nation. Although state and local authorities continue to make a majority of the arrests for violation of drug laws,2 prisoners who were arrested by federal agencies account for a substantial minority of the total number of years spent in incarceration for drug violations.3 Moreover,

Book Review: Morals Legislation Without Morality: The Case of Nevada

Book Review: Morals Legislation Without Morality: The Case of Nevada

Morals Legislation without Morality: The Case of Nevada.

Morals Legislation without Morality: The Case of Nevada.

Morals Legislation Without Morality: The Case of Nevada. By John F. Galliher and John R. Cross. Rutgers University Press, 1983. 163 pp. $15.00

Morals Legislation Without Morality: The Case of Nevada. By John F. Galliher and John R. Cross. Rutgers University Press, 1983. 163 pp. $15.00

Morals Legislation Without Morality: The Case of Nevada.

Morals Legislation Without Morality: The Case of Nevada.

‘Sins and Crimes’

In 'Sins and Crimes',1 A. R. Louch argues that the dispute between H. L. A. Hart2 and Lord Devlin,3 which is generally thought to revolve around the legal enforcement of morals, is in reality a dispute about the morality of the acts Devlin and other 'legal moralists' believe to be fit objects of criminal legislation. Since he finds 'something compelling about the move from the charge of gross immorality to punishment' (p. 39), Louch contends that 'the libertarian view depends . . . on taking a moral position counter to that advanced by the legal moralist' (p. 47). I shall examine the reasoning which leads Louch to view the law-morals controversy in this way and try to show that: (i) his interpretation of Hlart is mistaken and (2) he fails to establish that the libertarian must deny the immorality of the acts outlawed by 'morals legislation' in order to show that such laws ought not to exist.

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgment. By Troy Duster. New York: Free Press, 1970. 274 pp. $6.95

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgment. By Troy Duster. New York: Free Press, 1970. 274 pp. $6.95 Joe H. Hicks Joe H. Hicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 15, Issue 2, Spring 1973, Pages 314–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/15.2.314 Published: 01 March 1973

Carmen Saeculare and odes iv

In 17 B.C., with the help of mathematical sophistries by the quindecimviri, Augustus held the ludi saeculares. The date was no coincidence: the Parthian standards had been regained in 20 B.C., the Spanish war seemed to be concluded, prosperity was increasing with peace established, and—most important—the moral legislation had been passed in the previous year. Horace was appointed to compose the Carmen Saeculare, which was to be sung by a choir of 27 boys and 27 girls, at first before the temple of Apollo on the Palatine and then at the temple of Iuppiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitol. The ceremonies were designed for the occasion: the ancient ceremonies had been at night, so on three successive nights offerings were made to the Moerae, the Ilithyiae, and Terra Mater. Daytime ceremonies, however, were added: on three successive days sacrifice was made on the Capitol to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, on the Capitol to Juno, and on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana.

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgement

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgement

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgment.

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgment.

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgement

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgement

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs and Moral Judgment.Troy Duster

<i>The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs and Moral Judgment.</i>Troy Duster

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgment

The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgment

Kant's Good Will and the Scholar

Previous articleNext article No AccessDiscussionKant's Good Will and the ScholarCecil H. MillerCecil H. Miller Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 80, Number 1Oct., 1969 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/291750 Views: 4Total views on this site Copyright 1969 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Principles of Moral Legislation

IN what sense, or to what degree, is it the proper business of the state to, as we say, promote morality? It is notoriously difficult to answer this in a principled way, and the temptation has, therefore, been to leave it unanswered, and to deal with questions of repressive moral legislation piecemeal, each on its own merits. This, however, has practicalas well as theoretical disadvantages, and we should clearly be better off if we could lay down limiting conditions as a suggestive guide for legislative programs. I shall, therefore, in the present article, be concerned, not with the merits of this or that reform in particular, but with the general logic of a certain theory of state action. I shall assume as my hypothesis that the business of the state is, neither to compel its citizens to live the life it thinks to their, or its, advantage, nor to encourage a general competitive scramble in the interests of an abstract liberty, but to provide the positive conditions under which a good and satisfying life is open to all alike, leaving, however, the individual man to take advantage of these in the degree to which his own inclinations may prompt him. And what I wish to do is to inquire whether one can deduce from such a standpoint anything to throw light upon the question as to just how far it is desirable for the state to go in its interference with the moral habits of the citizen. It is evident that the principle of of opportunity creates a certain presumption to begin with in favor of leaving men to work out their own salvation; it puts the burden of proof on a proposal for active interference. I am not unaware that there is a plausible turn to be given to the conception of freedom which would reverse this .declaration. Is a man really at liberty .to use his powers to the utmost when he weakens them by personal habits that are harmful-drink or debauchery,-or throws away in gambling the money that might have been used to

Principles of Moral Legislation

Principles of Moral Legislation