The Role of Law - LAW 421
The Role of Law
LAW/421
August 6, 2012
Michael S. Green
The Role of Law
Laws are “the body of rules or principles, prescribed by authority or established by custom, that a state, community, society, or other group recognizes as binding on its members” (Ferguson Publishing, 1999, p. 105). The purposes of laws are to maintain peace and order, to define the rights of citizens, to secure justice, to harmonize conflicting interests, and to provide means for punishing wrongdoers....
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