States use law to shape a specific type of citizen and civilization

Evidence

If every State tends to create and maintain a certain type of civilisation and of citizen (and hence of collective life and of individual relations), and to eliminate certain customs and attitudes and to disseminate others, then the Law will be its instrument for this purpose (together with the school system, and other institutions and activities). It must be developed so that it is suitable for such a purpose—so that it is maximally effective and productive of positive results. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 924

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the state’s law-producing project as civilizational molding — the citizen-subject formation mechanism needed for the framing module.
• XREF: connects to: Citizens United turns neoliberal rationality into a constitutional hermeneutic governing law. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 328; States reinscribed threatened national homogeneity in economic and legal terms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 258; The social forces pushing a statute explain its draftsmanship and form — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 482 (+4 more)