Friends of mine have visited Turkey, made the mistake of saying the word bible to loudly, and was put in prison for a few days. Thankfully, there was confusion and he was let out and made it back to the United States. Turkey is not alone in this; other Arab nations are hostile towards other religions and China included. Three most common legal systems are civil law, common law, and religious law/theocratic law). Civil law (or code law) can be traced all the way back to the Romans, it based on a clear set of codes or laws; it is a system that is concerned with private relations of members of the community rather than the criminals (contrasted with criminal law), and it looks as though much of the world still uses civil law. Secondly, common law as described by Smriti Chand from yourarticlelibrary.com, “The basis for common law is tradition, past practices, and legal precedents set by the courts through interpretations of statutes, legal legislation, and past rulings. Common law seeks “interpretation through the past decisions of higher courts which interpret the same statutes or apply established and customary principles of law to a similar set of facts”.” This becomes a precedent; in future cases, when parties disagree what a law should be, the court is bound to follow …show more content…
It is difficult and long transition, because their apathy towards capitalism and freedom generally. They must deal with systems of property rights, banking systems, and inflation. People have to learn to know what it is like to own their own property, the freedom to do what they want, and own a business without permission. Twelve years ago, I had a piano teacher from Russia and she was extremely good at the piano. She told me and my siblings about Russia, learning to live a more free life, and how rubles would fluctuate from one day to another. Cheese would cost 30 rubles one day, the next several hundred; she said the people struggled with the idea of being free, it was a foreign concept from too much apathy thanks to