# Law & Regulation A law is a rule recognized as binding and enforced by authority. Governments decide on lasting policies and create laws to ensure that society follows those policies. The phrase “the law” is used to refer to the entire body of laws of a jurisdiction, as in the phrase “theft is against the law”. In modern governments, laws are made according to some well-defined “legislative” (law-creating) process. A regulation is similar to a law. Regulations are used to fill in details that are not established in laws. Regulations are usually created through different processes than laws, by experts rather than generalists and small committee decisions more than large group votes. #### How are the concepts of law and regulation relevant to the Network State? The Network State will operate by clearly defined rules that are binding and enforced, so you could call them laws. The Network State will establish new legislative processes that do a better job of efficiently representing the public will. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://gitbook.jur.io/wiki-network-state/dictionary/law-and-regulation.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.