We explain what legislation is and why it is so important for there to be peace in society. Also, how the legislation works.
What is Legislation?
Legislation is a set of laws that will determine and regulate a matter, It is also applicable to a region such as an entire country or a municipality, they can even govern the behavior within an institution, as an example we can mention that a province may not have the same laws as another, as it can happen between companies of same or different item.
Laws order the daily life of citizens, making it clear which actions are right and which others are wrong and they could be punished with different sanctions. The laws also explain how someone will be punished if necessary, according to what happened. Legislation is also usually synonymous with the word law or it can be used to refer to a legal system.
Why is legislation important?
It is necessary that the laws exist, because if we lived in a society without them, and each one acted as they wanted, the whole society would be in great chaos, and there would be many conflicts over various issues.
It is necessary that there is something that tells us how to act in a certain situation, because as we said before, if each one reacted according to their own reasoning, we would be in trouble, people would spend their time fighting because they would not know what things are normal, which ones are correct or which ones are incorrect.
How does the legislation work?
In each country laws are enacted by legislators and they must be respected by all citizens without exception in order to contribute to the common good of the region where they are located. There are times when these laws are ignored in some cases and do not receive any sanction, in this case we can name a person who, to defend himself, performs an action that ends the life of another person. In this case, there is an intentional death, but it was in defense of life itself. Obviously, this is just one example and not in all countries there are laws that protect self-defense.
In each country the largest set of laws that exists is the National Constitution, which forms the supremacy in laws. It is a book that begins to be written from the formation of the country, as a State, and there all the existing laws are being written. Many times, just as all things change and are updated, it is necessary for the National Constitution to be updated in certain aspects. For example, many countries currently have approved gay marriage or the ability for people to choose what sex they want to have on their identity card, a question that was unthinkable in the last century.
All the laws that appear in the constitution They are the product of the work of the legislative branch of the nation. As for existing laws, there are also people who oversee that those laws are followed. For example, we have the traffic police that not only monitor traffic, but also everything that has to do with the issue itself, such as what to do in an accident or what are the fines that apply in each case. As another example, we can mention park rangers who take care not only of the environment, but at the same time they watch that people do it too.