What role do judges and the judicial system play in supporting freedom?
March 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
Judges and the Judicial System play a small role in supporting freedom. In a sense, they actually enforce laws and decide what punishments to administer when a person commits a crime. The Judicial system limits freedom by just being the judicial system. The system regulates laws, and when needed interferes with day to day living of citizens in the United States. On the other side, without laws the United States would be a hard place to live in. Crime would run rampant, and society would revert back to the old ways of every man for himself. Total Freedom is the ability to do whatever you want, but as we all know in our society that is far from the truth. Do you think you are completely free? I don’t, as there are laws and rules to abide by from day to day. Judges have to also follow these rules, and they enforce them with swift justice. On a positive note, Judges and the Judicial system prevent people from running around doing whatever they please, and in a sense protects others freedom by preventing freedom. If you think about it, if person A wanted to steal person B’s wallet…without the Judicial system there would be no laws against this.
