Research Paper on:
Legal Romanticism and Modernity Bonds

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constitute the modern world as we know it" (Anonymous The Constitution of International Society, 1999; art1-01.html). Such social changes cannot help but influence the political and the legal body of  a society for they are changes that influence and guide the people of any given time. And, when we consider the powerful changes brought forth by romanticism and modernity we  cannot help but realize that there are many connections between the two as they mold to a society and as they mold into the law of a land. In the  following paper we examine romanticism and its influence on society and law, and then do the same with modernity. The paper then discusses such minds as Hegel who were instrumental  in incorporating new thought into the processes of a society. In offering this information for examination we present data which enables us to see the connection between romanticism and modernity  as it involves law. Romanticism Romanticism was actually an artistic and an intellectual "movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from  classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions. Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization  over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century" (Pioch, 1995; romanticism). In many ways it was a form of thought which rejected much of what was taking  place in the world at the time. It can perhaps be stated that it is the opposite of modernity. "Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the  personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental" (Pioch, 1995; romanticism). Romanticism was a period in time when those deeply human conditions were addressed in art and