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you are here: > Self > 22. LEX
| 22.1 | Lex- Universal laws of society |
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| Law dominates our everyday life; whether we are conscious of it, or not. |
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| There are laws governing minimum amount of clothing you can wear in public and even what you cannot wear (in the case of official uniforms such as police officers) without proper authority. |
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| There are laws determining what you can buy, when you can buy it and how it is prepared, stored, manufactured, transported and recorded. |
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| There are laws governing where you can live, how you may live and what rights you have to live in the society in which you reside. |
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| Laws can take people away from society and have them imprisoned for actions considered offensive and criminal and there are even laws permitting others to spy on you and ensure that you are not breaking any laws. |
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| 22.1.1 | The maze of laws | |
| If you live in a western nation, then you are probably subject to over ten thousand to twenty thousand different laws, each containing dozens and sometimes hundreds of individual “clauses” defining acceptable and unacceptable actions. |
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| Some of these are controlled by national parliament or administrations, while others are state and local laws. |
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| Yet amazingly, few individuals have ever read one complete law, let alone a few dozen of the laws that control their lives. For that kind of investigation, legal professionals are used. |
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| 22.1.2 | Justice and the law |
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| Two thousand years ago, the key laws of Roman society were on display on a few dozen pieces of marble in the Forum for all to see. There were still hundreds of individual clauses, but nothing like the paper mountain that exists for just one citizen of a nation. |
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| Justice has become and increasingly difficult quality to witness in operation in modern society. Because of the huge number of laws, the number of legal professionals has increased a thousand fold even in the last thirty years. Legal cases have also become jammed as more action is taken and appeals lodged. And the cost and complexity of law has made the process prohibitively expensive meaning law remains firmly to the benefit of the wealthy and powerful, rather than all members of society. |
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| As much as our political and legal leaders would like to argue that law and order and justice is improving, the opposite is true. Now with the advent of terrorism in many western nations, fresh evidence is emerging of over zealous law enforcement officials operating virtually with impunity against the rights of citizens and the community. In many respects, our legal systems are perilously close to becoming devoid of any sense of true justice. |
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| 22.1.3 | Why? What is the solution? |
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| There are three immediate challenges when discussing the nature of law, the problems of the present legal system for virtually ever nation and possible solutions: | ||
| • Most individuals do not understand the present terms and structure of law today; • Most individuals are unclear as to the history of law; • Solutions inevitable relate to process improvements, when many of the faults rest deep within the present architecture of law itself. |
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| We will investigate these problems and challenges over the next few pages of this section in the hope of providing clear and unmistakable legal system solutions that work and are sustainable. |
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