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Question 1
According to Marianne Constable1, law corresponds to language, and it involves more than
statements and rules. It requires a particular vocabulary and speech. Under the sub-topic Law is
a language and Acts, Marriane Constable asserts that "it is a world of doers and deeds," therefore
subjects control the acts and deeds they predicate, hence they should be held accountable. In law,
attribution of a criminal act requires the actus reus and the mens rea (concurrence of the evil
doing hand and the evil-doing mind). This is correct when homicide is concerned. When a
person causes the death of a person, the charge depends on whether there was the intent. The
consequence, which is the crime, will be determined based on the actions and further the mental
state of a person, Mostly, a person causes death recklessly, according to Marriane, will be guilty
because they are in control of their actions; hence they predicate what happens is such a
situation. Also, the concurrence of evil-doing hand and the evil-doing mind in grammar can
conclusively be said in law to be first-degree murder2.
She goes further to acknowledge the existence of the rule of law, which requires that subjects
cannot be punished without the existence of the law. However, grammar needs that a person
cannot be convicted or sentenced without predicting. This, therefore, reduces law to a language
of statements and rules depending on the nationality one is looking at. According to her,
language or law cannot be exhausted, and they contain rules which are not exhaustive on what
else can be put in place as a new rule. Legal speech act is social acts as well, according to her.
She asserts that law ought to be attended as a language, rather than as acts. Therefore, actions of
law, unspoken facts, and visual studies are not relegated to the periphery of legal studies. When
1 Constable, Marianne. Our word is our bond: How legal speech acts. Stanford University Press, 2014.2 Constable, Marianne. Our word is our bond: How legal speech acts. Stanford University Press, 2014.

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