Complete the account of the four senses.
Read as a body of rules in force, law is a set of ______. Read as what officials and citizens actually do, law is a ______. Read as a claim about how things ought to be arranged, law is a ______. A claim that one person holds against another, protected by the legal order, is a ______ right.
Word bank: norms · fact · value · subjective · sanction · objective
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- The first three blanks are the three senses in the order the lesson introduces them.
- The last blank contrasts with the body of norms itself.
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Read as a body of rules in force, law is a set of norms. Read as what officials and citizens actually do, law is a fact. Read as a claim about how things ought to be arranged, law is a value. A claim that one person holds against another, protected by the legal order, is a subjective right.
The fourth blank is the one that trips first-year students in Spanish and Catalan, where a single word carries both readings. The objective right is the order; the subjective right is a position inside it. Neither exists usefully without the other, but confusing them makes half the sentences in a civil code unreadable.
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