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- law enforcement – state activities, which is expressed in the use
of measures to enforce the law. It concerns mainly the issuance of
power individual acts, that is, the acts that are issued only for this
particular case (for example, the issuance of one-time planning act for
construction, the appointment of a citizen to a position).
- law-enforcement (law enforcement) – state activity which is
expressed mainly in the control and supervision of observance and
enforcement of norms, as well as in the application of coercive
measures to their offenders. While implementing this function, legal
cases related to the application of legal sanctions, disputes between
individuals, etc., are weighed.
Methods of performing the functions can be divided into legal
and non-legal (organizational). The legal method is realized with the
help of three above-mentioned forms, and non-legal one includes:
economic (subsidies, state orders, regulation of prices, etc.); political
(coordination of positions of different political parties, international
negotiations, etc.); ideological (appeals to the public, calls, etc.);
actually organizational (planning, programming, control, etc.).
1.2. Law: concept, attributes and functions.
The concept of law is closely linked to the concept of human
freedom as a phenomenon that is inherent in all living beings in
nature, but a man lives in a society, among other people. How much
freedom does a person in fact have in his/her actions in the society?
How long does this freedom extend? The humankind has found the
answer to this question: as long as the freedom of other people or the
community is not limited. But in every big community (and the state
is a big community) the answer was different in various historical
periods.
The question of law’s emergence should be considered from two
points of view: the law, created by the state and the law as a natural
social phenomenon. The emergence of law, as a general rule of
conduct, cannot be separated from the socio-economic and political
factors of society's life. It arises as a natural law of society’s members,
family, tribe and exists in the form of subjective rights and
obligations, in the form of legal practices, having a moral, religious,
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