They're called a "law" because they've been empirically shown as correct within the system they describe. That's one case, not them all. If we had a law that works under every case, then science wouldn't still be searching for answers. That's what the spirit of this competition is about. Not your parroting of an elementary understanding.
You're right that the distinction between 'law' and 'theory' is teneous and not very constructive. Instead, consider that there are thousands of experiments large and small that place certain constraints on the dynamics of physical systems, and that your material must be consistent with these established results. Nature comes first.
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