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The Court is the arbiter of an institutionalzed government. Conceptually, a good court interprets the law and applies it to the real world. Philosophically, courts are intended to act as an impartial referee in establishing and then judging facts relating to events of possible breaches of law. Like in a good democracy, fighting here is meant to happen with words and arguments, therefore courts are generally weapons-free zones.
Philosophy
Courts play a large role in the modern philosophical approach to governmental administration. The triad goes as follows:
- Legislative makes laws, this will be the politicians you vote (or not) into government. Democracy happens here.
- Executive seeks and picks out entities in breach of the law (not to protect citizens!). A state-sanctioned authority to do this is commonly called a police.
- Judicial interprets a law and actively applies it to whom the executive has picked out and charged. As state-sanctioned, this is commonly called a court.
This is the absolute basic foundation for any kind of self-governing entity but can be set up in many ways. Note how the executive and the judicial are beholden to the legislative because it's the legislative's law the executive and judicial are basing their procedures on. If the law changes, so will police action and court rulings.