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Law: Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior. Law helps to maintain and protect people's rights. See also Rights, Society, State, Jurisdiction.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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John Rawls on Law - Dictionary of Arguments

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Law/Rawls: a conception of law is a set of principles of general form and universal application, which must be publicly known as the last appeal in the order of conflicts of moral persons.
>Conflicts
, >Justice, >Judicial system, >Legislation.
These conditions exclude dictatorship and free-rider problems.
>Dictatorship, >Free riders.
Justice: their principles, on the other hand, are determined by their special role and the object to which they are applied.
>Justice/Rawls.
Generality/general validity: however, principles do not exclude general egoism.
>Generality, >General validity.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Rawl I
J. Rawls
A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Oxford 2005


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