by Butler Shaffer –

Introduction ->

“This article shall, therefore, limit its scope to an examination of formal systems of political and legal order, and shall not consider the systems of “order” which prevail throughout any society, and which are the product not of political lawmaking, but of informal “rulemaking” found within social institutions such as the family, economic,religious and social organizations, and the mores, customs, manners and habits of people. It is fairly well recognized, in fact, that without
such informal sources of order, no meaningful social structure could long endure. Contrasted with the political efforts to impose order by coercion or the threat of coercion, then, are those informally, voluntarily developed rules of behavior which shall be referred to as “natural order.”

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