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• Explain The Role/Purpose Of Law In American Society

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1) Explain the role /purpose of law in American society. The role of law in American Society is to “function as the main tool with which we organize ourselves as an advanced, democratic society and is a key tool which we use to regulate social behavior.” (Teitelbaum J.B., 2013) Laws governs the land and creates a distribution of power between state, federal and local branches, which establishes and recognizes the legal rights and responsibilities of citizens and creates institutions to enforce them. Each branch enforces various rules which provides a measure of control. Our legal right is the power or privilege that we are guaranteed by laws, which apply equally to each of us as individuals. 2) Explain the separation of power doctrine. The

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