Delivering the Justice System
The 3L Philosophy does not prescribe a specific justice system
- Most important is that the Legal Principle is adopted in people’s hearts and minds.
- We need a justice system that is compatible with the 3L Principle to secure justice and just compensation for victims of aggressors.
- If all laws are in harmony with the Legal Principle and all disputes are handled in jurisdictions (by court(s) or without going to court) that operate according to well-established due process concepts, it does not matter exactly who is making or enforcing the laws, whether it be a locally elected sheriff, national police, military or even a global or even an alien police force.
- Although the laws themselves require urgent realignment with the Legal Principle, many of the ways the justice system functions today can be replicated by a free society. We are fortunate that many people of goodwill have generally done a great job in arriving at our current major jurisprudential principles, which have evolved from the foundation provided by the Roman and English common law doctrines.
Components of a Justice System
- Courts, judges, arbitrators, police, and border security services can all be provided publicly or privately, as can the means of punishing aggressors and foreign policy. There are many ways these can be voluntarily funded.
- The process of administering, adjudicating, and enforcing laws in a free society can be modelled on many of the legal procedures that exist today. While we could improve in each area, civil law, which encompasses contract law, property law, tort law, trials, appeals, and evidence law, generally operates well already.
- There are several simple ways to prevent abuse of power in the legal system, including separating the legislative, executive, and judicial branches and utilizing juries.
- No institution must necessarily have a coercive monopoly over law or enforcement. Individuals are free to select competing arbitral providers and protection agencies. Arbitration bodies and courts, with the consent of their clients, may agree to establish courts of appeal and appellate courts to resolve disputes between arbitral providers and protection agencies.
Eliminating unnecessary costs of the Justice System
- Removing laws against victimless crimes will significantly lower the cost of the justice system. Victimless crimes detract resources from administering justice against actual aggressors and unnecessarily create a crushing volume of cases that overwhelm current justice systems, many of which stem from the foolish war on drugs.