Law

• Legal rules


  Rules made for everyone, punishable
• Moral rules (Horasrules)


  Own personal rules/boundaries, normal behaviour
• Sometimes legal and moral rules can overlap
• Moral rules (norms of behaviour)


  • Develop over time through generations
  • Ought to be obeyed
  • Are enforced by disapproval of the community
  • Are voluntary and only apply to those who accept them
• Legal rules


  • Can change instantly
  • Must be obeyed
  • Are enforced by the courts
  • Are obligatory and apply to everyone
• There is no real definition of rule of Law
• Rule of Law


  • All people are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced
  • Safeguards against dictatorships and protects democracy
• Torley Monore: 'No person shall be sanctioned except in accordance with the law'
• Rule of Law


  • There is equality before the law
  • There must be fairness and clarity of the law
• The 17 goals (Sustainable development)


  • (find on page 8)
• An absence of arbitrary power of the state
• Everyone should be equal before the law
• The law must be supreme
• Unnecessary or harsh