In my opinion the purpose of the legal system involves many things. The legal system provides everyone a fair and equal trail in the eyes of the law without prejudice. You are innocent until proven guilty and judged by a jury of your peers. The legal system helps to derive, enact, and enforce laws to protect society and ensure domestic tranquility. Victims can get the justice they deserve when someone disrupts their daily lives and generates physical, mental, and/or emotional pain. The Legal Studies Academy at First Colonial High School will teach me things I never knew and help me to become the best lawyer I can be.
To begin, without the legal system and laws, criminals could get away with whatever they wanted and there would be absolute chaos. Without the legal system many people would be harmed and there would be no formal control or authoritative order. An instance of this, if you saw a bike and desired it, you could steal it and no one would care. Also, if you disliked someone, you could hurt them, or worse, kill them. Since there wouldn’t be any laws against it, it wouldn’t hold any relevance to anyone and you would escape without concern or impugn. Many would be stolen from, injured, and even murdered. We have laws in place to protect us. We need laws to sustain social cohesion. This way, we can live together with cities, communities, and other societies. If you break laws, you are harming another person. Whether it is in privacy, property, physical or mental abuse, or whatever it may be, it is breaking the law. When you harm another, you are taking away their right to pursue happiness and other rights and liberties entitled to them. Consequently, when we break laws, we are to be punished, fairly, for the law we have ...
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...t until proven guilty, which makes it fair. The legal system helps to issue, make, and impose laws to protect society and guarantee domestic peace. Someone who is the victim of a crime of assault in any way, being mental, physical, or emotional, can get the justice they deserve for the pain they had. I will learn many things and learn to be the best lawyer I can be, if I am able to attend the Legal Studies Academy at First Colonial High School.
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As for the political structure the initiation of a legal system was motivated by the fact that they needed a principal role in the religious, economic, and military fields. In having a legal system they were able to distinguish the right from the wrong. Rules and regulations were fixed, the different forms of contracts were deleted, and justice was administered to the markets.
What this basically says is that laws are made up to maintain order, monitor. actions, and work in the best interest of society as a whole. If there were no laws, chaos and anarchy would be widespread. This is why society has set up government. The sex of the sex.... ...
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Everyone deserves to have equal access to fair treatment along with quality representation. Going to law school will give me the fundamental knowledge and access to impact the legal process in a positive way. As a child I do not believe any of my classmates in any grade level thought about being an Attorney, Police Officer, Fireman, or anything dealing with Law Enforcement. Those professions seem to be out of reach while I was growing up. Sadly those dreams eluded me until later in life. My Father was one of the leaders of the Philadelphia Black Mafia Family so my interaction with justice as a child was not a positive one. Sadly my Father was following in the direct footsteps of his Father and for certain periods of my life I did the same. Responsibility was a trait that escaped me until a handful of years back. I treated everything and everyone in my life carelessly. I was careless with my finances, personal relationships with love ones, and careless in the way I conducted myself. I did not have any respect or regard for myself or anyone else for that matter and my life was severely damaged due to my lack of care. Not only my personal life was severely impacted but collaterally my Military life and career was as
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Why is justice important, then? Because although the legal system is not always right, it needs that lofty ideal of justice as something to strive for, something to hope gets accomplished, the hope for every victim of a crime of any nature. The seeking of justice is a tiring and long quest akin to the seeking of truth, for they are closely linked and without one there may not be the other. Without the understanding of what really happened in an event or place and time, justice is not being sought out and can’t be dealt with by those that need it. We all have felt wronged, at one time or another, in one form or another, and I feel that is why we all have a common interest in seeking justice.
The role of the courts are to administer the law, which has had much history over centuries going back as far as Anglo-Saxon period. When local issue where decided by local customs laws. The word court brought about when justice decided by the king’s court or also known as royal court and punishments dealt with in different excessively