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What is a public policy?

A real basic definition of a public policy is any type of government action.

In your social studies courses, you learned about the three branches of our government: legislative, executive, and judicial.

The actions that are taken by members of these three branches are public policies. In elementary school, you learned that the legislative branch makes the laws, the executive enforces them, and the judicial interprets them.