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Formal legal rationality was his term for the vital thing attribute of the type of coherent and calculable law that was a precondition for modern political developments and the trendy bureaucratic state. Weber saw this law as having developed in parallel with the expansion of capitalism. Other notable early legal sociologists included Hugo Sinzheimer, Theodor Geiger, Georges Gurvitch and Leon Petrażycki in Europe, and William Graham Sumner in the us Modern navy, policing and bureaucratic power over strange citizens’ daily lives pose particular issues for accountability that earlier writers similar to Locke or Montesquieu couldn’t have foreseen. The custom and…