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The Legal Environment and Business Law

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In a nation, the law can serve to (1) keep the peace, (2) maintain the status quo, (3)
preserve individual rights, (4) protect minorities against majorities, (5) promote
social justice, and (6) provide for orderly social change. Some legal systems serve
these purposes better than others. Although a nation ruled by an authoritarian
government may keep the peace and maintain the status quo, it may also oppress
minorities or political opponents (e.g., Burma, Zimbabwe, or Iraq under Saddam
Hussein). Under colonialism, European nations often imposed peace in countries
whose borders were somewhat arbitrarily created by those same European nations.
Over several centuries prior to the twentieth century, empires were built by Spain,
Portugal, Britain, Holland, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy. With regard to the
functions of the law, the empire may have kept the peace—largely with force—but it
changed the status quo and seldom promoted the native peoples’ rights or social
justice within the colonized nation

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The Legal Environment and Business Law

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Publisher

: ., 2012

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Language

English

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1st Edition

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Law

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