Legal positivism

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…

2010). In response to the “unintended health consequence” (Wechsler & Nelson, 2010, p. 986) of a lower drinking age, some states opted to restore the minimum legal drinking age (MDLA) back up to 21. In 1984, President Ronald Regan, in an effort to make the drinking age uniform across the United States, enacted a law setting the minimum legal drinking age of 21 for all states in the country. The President took away individual states’ options to oppose the age law when he mandated that, to…

Lately people have been discussing about the legal drinking age in the U.S. Weather it should or shouldn't be lowered to 18. I believe that the legal drinking age of 21 should not be lowered to 18. For example, approximately 5,000 people die every year due to drinking and accidents caused by drinking. These deaths include, motorcycle accidents, suicide, and even homicide. According to the National Institute on Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism. This shows that more young adults…

drinking age is fifteen years old, meaning teenage McLovin and his friends from the Blockbuster film Superbad would have had no problem purchasing alcohol if they lived there. Unfortunately, they lived in the United States which has one of the highest legal drinking ages in the world at twenty-one. The majority of the world, however, has settled on a drinking age of eighteen. This difference is due in part to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD),…

controversy in the United States whether the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen or if it should remain at twenty-one. Underage drinking has been and will continue to be a major controversial issue for many years. The attached article states, the legal drinking age of twenty-one has been in effect in the United States since 1984, however any state is free to lower it, but a ten percent penalty would be applied in its federal funding for transportation. There are advocates that argues the…

Is Enough Being Done to Fight Against Underage Drinking? Underage drinking has been an major topic for many years, and for almost 40 years most states voluntarily set their drinking age law at 21 ( ). However, 29 states, such as Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, and Nebraska just to name a few, decided to lower their drinking age to accommodate certain individuals, such as individuals that were enlisted in the military ( ). The actions of the 29 states that…

(UPL) Paralegals are individuals qualified for legal practices under the qualifications of educational background, law employment as well as working under the supervision of the attorneys within any environmental settings. Therefore, these individuals have a legal obligation to work under the instruction and supervision of the attorney in the law societies. With the attorney’s supervision, the paralegals can engage vast statutory activities within the frameworks of practicing law in the world.…

Drinking has been a hot topic for a few decades now. In 2018 the legal age to buy and consume alcohol is 21. At the moment at 18 you can buy deadly weapons and in some states purchase cigarettes. The age requirement is unjust ; regulations on lethal weapons and cigarettes are far less strict than those of alcohol. While purchasing cigarettes below the age requirement is illegal however smoking is not. Whereas alcohol, if an underage young adult is caught with alcohol they could be charged with…