Why We Have Laws 📜

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how laws help bring order to society
• Describe how laws protect safety, property, and individual freedoms
• Explore ways that laws protect society as a whole
• Define the common purpose of laws
• Analyze the link between laws and morals

⏰ What We Did

• Watched and took notes on Lesson 1, Part 3: Why We Have Laws
• Using the notes from Lesson 1, Part 3, answered the following questions in complete sentences:

1. Define laws, morals, and civil disobedience.
2. Describe four of the main reasons we have laws.
3. Give one example of a law that protects both the individual and society as a whole.
4. Explain how laws are related to morals.
5. Synthesize Choose a law that you consider to be particularly important and predict what would happen if that law no longer existed.

⚙️ Resources

• Lesson 1, Part 3: Why We Have Laws