Brad Wilson Women Studies 4 page paper 10/13/00 We live in a republic governed not just by majority rule but also by law. We use law in our country to limit the power of majority rule. The basic reason that we do this is because society can be flawed. This “flaw” can come from a variety of areas, but the one that I would like to focus on is sexism. In criminal law the courts are blind …showed first 75 words of 1267 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1267 total…new laws added everyday and old ones taken out, but all laws affect everyone in the same way. When our law system was created I believe that there was one mistake made. We cannot have a system blind to race and sex when people are the ones determining the outcomes of the cases. I think the original formers of our law system either gave themselves to much credit or gave their society to much credit.