The Creation Of Law In The United States

We are lucky enough to live in a country ran by Democracy. Because of that we must live under laws, or rules created by public officials to govern the land we live on. Laws are created by the state or federal legislators. Once created laws are enforced by the executive branch of our government. The judicial branch then looks at the laws to make sure they are in compliance with the United States constitution and that they are valid laws. Often times members of congress will come up with an idea for a new law and present it to state or federal legislation to try to get a legislator to help them get the law going.

Laws are created once a problem is noticed. If someone is doing something there is no law against, but people feel there should be someone may try to take the next step to set that law in motion. Laws are created to help prevent and eliminate any action that is seen to be a problem. When created laws also normally contain some sort of flexibility. This means if someone breaks that law, but has a just cause in doing so they may not be convicted of breaking that law or have to serve the normal sentence for that law.
This prevents a judge from making up their own law when they oversee a case. This protects all of our rights as American citizens. In other countries it is perfectly acceptable for the judge to make a decision based on their own feeling and not the facts of the law. We are lucky to live in a place that allows us to be protected by previously set in place laws and not a judge's moral