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Law comes into almost every area of life. There are laws about how people work with one another, how we trade and how we own things. Laws can enable people to run a business and laws can restrict how businesses are run. Laws create and regulate schools, hospitals and public utilities. Laws can remove people from society for their crimes, laws can create bridges between different societies and there are laws about elections for who represents society. There are even laws about how to make laws. "The rule of law," wrote the philosopher Aristotle in 350BC, "is better than the rule of any individual
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