emile durkheim

she proposed that the ideas people hold about religion were a dramatization of the moral community of the group. as if in ancient times england, like when the moral value of a goup is, say, you can not have sex with a man who is not your husband. thus the first woman had sex with the man outside of her husband got caught were stoned to death. then people don't want all of them stoned to death, thus formulate a law that ok, you can not betray you husband. the first historical consequences about laws is the first commandment. God set certain rules for people to obey, then those rules became laws. on stones, written. that is the history of law.