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How Is Law Affected By Morality And Justice?
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How Is Law Affected By Morality And Justice? Over the years, the legal personnel of the English Legal System have tried to separate law from morality and justice. This has proven to be quite a hard task considering the fact that even the House of Lords judges allow their morals to influence their decisions on certain cases. I think it is difficult to separate morality from law because most of the laws in Britain are an example of enacted morality, such as the law on manslaughter and murder, which echoes the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." Separating justice from law is just as hard. The dictionary definition of justice is 'the normative idea of the proper outcome to a case.' People seem to misinterpret this and understand it as the actual outcome of the case and so having been through the process of law and not getting the...
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