Legal education

The voting age in the United States is eighteen years old. Most of the countries in this world have a voting age established. Surprisingly, the youngest voting age is sixteen, and the oldest minimum age is twenty-one. The only known maximum voting age is in the Holy See, when electing a new pope is under the age of eighty. I believe that the United States should change the voting age to twenty-one years old, due to the fact that most teens are immature, are not very knowledgeable, and are easily…

High School kids are going to drink whether you like it or not. Statistics say that up to eighty-one percent of high school kids consume alcohol at one point in their high school career, according to the U.S Department of Justice. Consumption of alcohol through minors with a parent's consent should be legalized in the United States. I believe learning how to drink responsibly should be taught at a young age, for example; college, you always hear about how much fun people have and about all the…

that risk automatically doubles when you decide to drive under the influence, distracted by texting while driving, or just going way above the posted speed limit. Drinking while driving is a serious issue we face today not only from people of the legal drinking age, but for teens as well. For every one out of ten high schoolers drinks and drives. Teen drivers are seventeen times more likely under the influence to die in a car crash then they are when sober. There has been many ways we…

However, the government appears to have set these age marks in an arbitrary manner. There are many arguments supporting why the current laws regarding the age of responsibility are fine as are. However, the current system in place for determining the legal age of responsibility in America is outdated; the age of adulthood in our country should be determined by the ability of a person to prove that they are mature by paying bills, holding a job or attending college instead of by arbitrary laws…

Introduction This essay will cover the Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII, deliver a discussion about the proper use of the Religious Compensatory Leave (RCL) policy and make recommendations for the proper use of RCL. Senior Enlisted Leaders need to know the proper use of RCL in order to avoid misuse and abuse of policy. Religious Compensatory Leave, a God given right or a privilege. Civil Rights Act of 1964 In order to discuss the unethical decision of two federal employees that submitted for…

I believe that the drinking age should be lowered to 18, and here are my reasons: I believe that if you are able to die for country at the age of eighteen that you should be able to drink at the age of eighteen. There would be a lot more drunk drivers, but that is why responsibility needs to be taught, so that there could be less drunk drivers in the future. My last reason is that at the age of eighteen we are basically adults. My first reason is that if you can die for your country at the age…

Should the drinking age be lowered? I believe if we are adults then we can drink. If we can go into the military at 18 why not be able to drink. Sometimes bad things happen if you go to college with never drinking before. Most parents think we shouldn’t drink because we can get drunk and do stupid things, why not let us make choice. I am old enough to make my own choices I’m 18. So I’m an adult I believe that drinking age should be lowered because if we are considered an adult then we should be…

Common law it represents the whole of the United Kingdoms legal systems , which is made by judicial decisions in court, English law is based on common law,for instance common law was initially developed from case law based systems Common law is legal precedent that is made by judges sitting in court. Unlike statutory provisions, which are laws that are Acts of Parliament, the common law system is ever changing. Trial by jury would be a characteristic of common law, for example, the judicial…

Currently the legal drinking age in the United States is 21 which was increased from the age of 18. On July 17, 1984 President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. This law ordered states to increase the legal age but each state was free to say no. If they didn’t increase the age limit they would lose 10% of its federal funding for highway public transportation. There were several states that initially declined but by 1988 every state passed the law to increase the…

Since 1984 the federal government has ordered the fifty states to raise their legal drinking age to twenty-one or the budget will be cut 10% of highway money. Since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1987 the act has saved 17,000 lives since 1988. The group name CR (Choose Responsibility) are a nonprofit group founded by McCardell, whose main goal is to lower the drinking age to eighteen. McCardell has the assumption that excessive and reckless alcohol consumption from teens are the…