The basic purpose of the United States legal system is to ensure fairness in balancing individual and societal needs, while at the same time preventing excessive government power. Some people think balancing these interests has become too complicated and justice has been compromised. What do you think? Please explain your view, giving at least two examples that support it
What will be an ideal response?
This balancing of the needs of the individual with those of society through effective law enforcement mechanisms that do not go too far is a challenge. The student should be able to find examples in which individual rights have been overemphasized or in which government power has been too excessive in addressing the problems facing America.
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