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law and the state  

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  • Lawyers, legal philosophers, and political theorists, not to mention ordinary folk, typically consider links between law and the state to be intimate, unseverable, and uncontroversial. Lively questions remain about the point of law, whether these are descriptive questions—what does law do?—or normative ones—what should it do? Questions about law's proper location or source, however, are rare. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; State, Law and the]

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