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This full-length learning resource expands on the ideas of how the rule of law supports democracy, and how democracy supports the rule of law. Perfect for senior Law and Social Studies courses, its seven lessons include step-by-step instructions, student handouts, and case studies.
Learn how revolutions overturn laws and institutions.
Learn how Nazi Germany used satire to cast certain citizens as “others.”
Learn about the origin of western legal systems and how they compare to Indigenous law.
Learn about the most powerful weapon ever created.
Learn about government, politics, and elections in Saskatchewan.
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on the rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is—regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist—humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural. The best laws and best-conceived democratic mechanisms will not in themselves guarantee legality or freedom or human rights—anything, in short, for which they were intended—if they are not underpinned by certain human and social values.... The dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human co-existence.
– Václav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic
