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What is Law?

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Norm Pattis asks: What is law? His working definition provides:The law ... is a set of rules setting forth the minimum conditions of order necessary for the broadest class of people to pursue their individual ends.Here is my definition of the law: Law is the use of the legal system to impose one's will upon another.If you sue someone, what are you doing? You're imposing your will upon another person. My definition is complete, because it recognizes democratic reality. Many of our laws make no sense, and are the product of special interests. Why do we have farm subsidies? They are not democratic. If Americans voted as a collective, farm subsidies would be rejected. Yet special interests are able to manipulate the government.Why did we have Prohibition? Because a bunch of nit-wits imposed their values upon the American public...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).