The Legal System

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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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