Regulation

Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.

Laws are systems that regulate and ensure that individuals (or a community) adhere to the will of the state.

State-enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or established by judges through precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions.

Private individuals can create legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that may elect to accept alternative arbitration to the normal court process.

The formation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and the rights encoded therein.

The law shapes politics, economics, history and society in various ways and serves as a mediator of relations between people.

• Civil law jurisdictions are when a legislature or other central body codifies and consolidates laws.

• Common law systems, where judge-made precedent is accepted as binding law.

Historically, religious laws have played a significant role even in settling of secular matters, and are still used in some religious communities.

Islamic Sharia law is the world’s most widely used religious law, and is used as the primary legal system in some countries, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia.

The adjudication of the law is generally divided into two main areas.

• Criminal law deals with conduct that is considered harmful to social order and in which the guilty party may be imprisoned or fined.

• Civil law deals with the resolution of lawsuits (disputes) between individuals or organizations.

Law provides a source of scholarly inquiry into legal history, philosophy, economic analysis and sociology.

Law also raises important and complex issues concerning equality, fairness, and justice.

So what is all the fuss?

When you are young and you do something wrong or don’t listen to instructions, you get punished. After a few punishments, you can make the decision between right and wrong.

Obey the orders and you don’t get punished. Follow the rules and you can live your life in peace and tranquility.

Pick up your trash, mow the lawn, park in the correct space, do not eat someone else’s lunch, wear the proper clothing, pick up after your dog poops, pay your taxes, get to work on time, don’t spit on the street, thou shall not touch each other in an inappropriate manner and so it goes.

Everyone who drives take a test to prove they can handle an automobile. Within that text are written instructions on the proper (regulation) method for turning, stopping, and parking. Most follow these procedures and the traffic moves calmly, but there are a few that don’t know what the ‘Stop’ sign means. Should the speed limit really be followed?

Most of the news stories are of those who break the laws. Although it is assumed of their consequences and there are plenty of prisons and detention centers to house those of us who can’t resist.

Laws are written by our public representatives (elected or assigned) to update our current 10 commandments. Regulations tell us how to follow those laws.

Regulation is an abstract concept of management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends.

In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context.

• Biology, gene regulation and metabolic regulation allow living organisms to adapt to their environment and maintain homeostasis.

• Government, typically regulation means stipulations of the delegated legislation which is drafted by subject-matter experts to enforce a statutory instrument.

• Business, industry self-regulation occurs through self-regulatory organizations and trade associations that allow industries to set and enforce rules with less government involvement.

• Psychology, self-regulation theory is the study of how individuals regulate their thoughts and behaviors to reach goals.

So, it seems individuals among us will take their time and effort away from being productive to promise he or she will represent our thoughts, wants, wishes if elected with your hard earned cash to venture to the power center of the government and make your dreams come true.

Once elected the E Pluribus Unum finds the gears of government are greased with dollars and good intentions can be bought.

Every year hundreds of legislations are passed back and forth and discussed and committees formed and studies made and reports written and votes are counted for some new laws that redefine the old laws that the Supreme Court can compare to a 200 year old writing to make it legal or not.

Then regulations will be applied to detail the restrictions of following the law.

It is a good industry, telling us what we should and should not do. Seemed years ago when there were only 10-laws that people got along.

The regulations maybe bypassed but if the law is broken (and you are caught), the law enforcement industry of courts and judges and lawyers and juries and detention centers and jails and prisons will keep the cycle ever growing waste of time and money.

But without laws, there would be anarchy?

If that theory is true, then our species should not be allowed to exist. Maybe that is why we created the ultimate law… WAR?