Legal Systems
6.3 Understand legal systems.
Legal systems provide a framework of rules and norms of conduct that mandate, limit, or permit specified relationships among people and organizations and provide punishments for those who violate these rules and norms. Laws require or limit specific actions while empowering citizens to engage in others, such as entering into contracts and seeking remedies for contract violations. Legal systems are dynamic—they evolve over time to represent each nation’s changing social values and the evolution of their social, political, economic, and technological environments.
Political systems—authoritarianism, socialism, and democracy—tend to influence their respective legal systems. Democracies tend to encourage ...
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