Part one of term paper
Although the boundaries of law affect our lives on a daily basis, and our own society continually uses legal coercion as a means to modify human behavior, the very notion of such binding human guidelines is testament to the evolution of secular thought. The evolution of “legal positivism,” which can be defined as tangible procedural law, ...

Part two of term paper
... law and human law. The concept of divine law; higher law extolled through religious belief and doctrine, as I will explain, characterized the legal authority of ancient Egyptian pharaohs to a degree to which their subjects were willing to submit. The absence of inalienable human rights in Egyptian society is also characteristic of ancien t Egyptian divine law. The actual concept of “human rights,” as we have come to understand them, is an understanding that has evolved with legal positivism, ...