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The Judicial System as the Third Branch
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The judicial system is the branch of government, alongside the legislative and executive, that interprets law and rules on constitutionality.
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Sociologists study judicial rulings less for their legal reasoning than for what they reveal about a society's shifting cultural norms.
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A court ruling settles a case's legal question; whether the public accepts it as legitimate is a separate sociological question.