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law and order
law and ordern.1. The orderly arrangement of society in which people follow laws and are not disruptive: a breakdown of law and order.2. The strict enforcement of laws, especially by police action: argued that we should balance law and order with a willingness to listen to people's grievances.
law′-and-or′der adj.Translationslaw and order
law and orderThe laws and regulations that govern how crime should be controlled and how society should function, and the enforcement by police and judicial systems thereof. The mayoral candidate vowed to bring law and order back into the crime-ridden city. It took many years for the country to establish law and order after gaining its independence from the empire.See also: and, law, orderlaw and orderStrict enforcement of laws, especially for controlling crime. For example, Our candidate is always talking about law and order. The concept behind this term was stated by Aristotle. Today, however, it also carries the implication of infringing on civil rights in the course of too arduous law enforcement. [Late 1500s] See also: and, law, orderlaw and ˈorder a situation in which most people in a country respect and obey the law; public order: There has been a breakdown in law and order in some parts of the country. ♢ The President praised the forces of law and order (= the police and the army).See also: and, law, orderlaw and orderStrict enforcement of laws, especially with regard to controlling crime. This policy was first expounded by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in his Politics: “Law means good order.” However, it also acquired a bad name among those who point to its association with infringements of civil rights in the mid-1900s. More than a century earlier Rhode Island had a restrictive property qualification for voters. A Suffrage Party was formed and led a rebellion in 1842; its opponents were called the “Law and Order” party. The term was also used in 1881 with reference to maintaining law and order in Ireland (surely a controversial issue), and became a cliché in the course of several mid-twentieth-century American political campaigns. The British journal The Economist commented in 1968, “Mr Nixon . . . and Mr Humphrey are both making concessions to this overriding concern about law and order.” In the 1990s the term had largely lost its repressive connotation. A popular television series entitled Law and Order dealt with the cooperative crime-fighting efforts of police officers and lawyers.See also: and, law, orderLaw and Order
Law and Order the system of social relations arising from the law in force. Law and order always reflects the most important aspects and features of a socioeconomic system. The classics of Marxism-Leninism assert that state power has always protected a system—the existing social structure. They interpret law and order as a normal, regular, and legally binding order of the life of society. They view law and order in close relationship with law and the political system of a particular society or state. In a bourgeois state, law and order is characterized by the political dominance of the bourgeoisie, dominance of private ownership of the implements and means of production, and exploitation of one person by another. In a socialist state, law and order is a system of social relations that meets the interests of a majority of the population or all the people. The basic features of contemporary sociopolitical order, which has developed in the USSR as a result of the victory of socialism, are the principle features of Soviet socialist law and order. Among these features are the exercising of political power by all the Soviet people, a socialist economic system and socialist ownership of the implements and means of production, a democratic state system, equality of all nationalities and peoples, the leadership of the CPSU in society and the state, and socialist equality and freedom of the people. AcronymsSeeLO |