law question

Running head : LAW QUESTION

Introduction

The development of law throughout time has tended to favor the wealthy and landed classes against the poorer sections of society . Crafting of laws was meant to keep in check the masses who could threaten the status quo by encroaching on the property of the aristocrats . Trespass laws for example were made to keep the `wretched of the earth ' from invading the lush farms of the wealthy landowners . In societies where the king held sway and his word as law , more often than not his judgments favored

the rich against the poor . In Russia , laws were passed that legitimized the ownership of serfs as one 's property that could be gambled away at the local casinos or bartered to pay off debts

Most ruling elites ensure that they craft laws and pass legislation that entrenches their positions and gives them the legal right to squander the resources of the state . In some cases they executive has forced through the law making institutions laws that increase his powers far in excess of those envisioned by the constitution . The department of Homeland Security operates with the backing of the various executive s the president makes that if scrutinized carefully would raise legal questions of breach of the constitution . Tapping people 's phones without a warrant from a judge because one was suspected of aiding terrorists is a debatable infringement of the 1st amendment . The president has been allowed to operate as he wills by exploiting loopholes in...