esidency, an imperial congress, and an imperial judiciary, the implication being in each case that one branch of government has developed so as to gain an unwarranted ascendancy over the other two and to make use of its power to impose undesirable policies on the American people. Four of the major functions of the law in modern society are as follows:
1) Peacekeeping, the basic function of any legal system.
2) Checking government power and thus protecting personal freedom.
3) Promoting economic growth through free competition.
Conflicts may develop between any two of these, and such conflicts can be seen between promoting economic growth through free competition and promoting social justice, since free competition may at times produce injustice. We have seen this with reference to the effects free competition has had on minority groups, who have
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