(DOWNLOAD) "Is Civil Litigation a Threat to Freedom?" by Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Is Civil Litigation a Threat to Freedom?
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
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Is civil litigation a threat to our freedom? Let me start by emphasizing the importance of the civil law system in the legal structure of a free society. Lawsuits are important in order to compensate the injured, to act as deterrents, and to provide incentives for people to act reasonably. (1) Civil justice is one of many components in the American legal system that work together in order to preserve freedom. (2) The criminal justice system, for example, prevents others from stealing money; the regulatory system ensures that the water and air remain clean. Of course, the most important legal safeguard is the Constitution, which protects against governmental abuses of power. (3) Indeed, the founders more or less defined freedom as protection against such abuse, so they provided the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and the other protections of the Bill of Rights in order to ensure that all citizens would live freely in this great country. (4)