Public policy

Public Policy is also known as Public Issues. They are based on perspective and the more people care about the issue, then the more important the issue becomes, and the more attention it receives from the government.

There are four types of Issues:
Local - issues that are in a town near you
State - issues that are in your state
Regional - issues in your coast [north, east, south, west]
National - issues in your country

In legal decisions, invocation of "public policy" is a catch-all expression for the court to rule what it thinks is best for society. Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court in criticizing this approach:

Under our constitutional framework, federal courts do not sit as councils of revision, empowered to rewrite legislation in accord with their own conceptions of prudent public policy. See Anderson v. Wilson, 289 U.S. 20, 27 (1933). Only when a literal construction of a statute yields results so manifestly unreasonable that they could not fairly be attributed to congressional design will an exception to statutory language be judicially implied.