Legal positivism

Drinking Age I believe that the drinking age of twenty one is appropriate and should remain as is, for these reasons. At that age, the drinker is more responsible and is less likely to be reckless than an underage drinker, their brain is still developing and consuming alcohol at a young age can be a serious problem, and even though eighteen year olds have the right to vote, get married and serve in the military, they are not able to drink due to military standards. When it comes to drinking,…

Law enforcement also has the duty to stop illegal behavior. There have been several instances in across the U.S. where the police fail to punish minors for drinking under the age. When the police show up at a party where teens are getting drunk they have been known to respond to the situation by taking the alcohol and making their parents pick them up. Nothing goes on the person who provides the alcohol or the minor’s record; both groups are simply given a warning. The drinking law is a commonly…

choices when they are intoxicated. The first reason that the drinking age should not be lowered to 18 is because newly legal 18 year olds would provide alcohol for younger teens. Imagine if a friend just turned 18, all one has to do is ask them to buy alcohol. The friend will because he is a friend. He doesn’t need a bribe. He wants for you what he never had. “People who are newly legal often purchase alcohol for their underage friends. Surveys indicate that the most common source of alcohol for…

The current drinking age in the US which is twenty one is a proper fit to the current US society. President Reagan addressed all the issues in the society regarding the use of alcohol when he formulated the “National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984” and he was very right. The act was crafted keeping in mind that the human brain is not fully developed until the age of twenty one. The use of alcohol at a lower age could be detrimental to one’s life and the path one chooses would be enough to ruin…

It has accomplished that, but a stronger seatbelt and D.U.I. regulations have contributed to the diminish, too. Boosting the legal age has not abridged drinking, it has purely galvanized it to go secretive…

Hundreds of teens have been injured or died each year for underage drinking and driving. The alcohol age should not be lowered to 18, it needs to remain at 21 in order to protect teens from hurting themselves. Many young teens are experiencing the issues of drinking too much, and because of this, underage drinking is a leading public health problem. Some studies show that young people who drink put themselves at risk for potential health problems. About 5,000 people under the age of 21 die…

I Like the Way He Thinks (A discussion on the political views Frederick Douglass agrees with) The world is filled with people, around 7 billion to be more precise, and all those people make up 196 countries. So the question of how to govern all these people is one with a valid point. There are numerous different types of governments all around the world. Some countries have leaders with complete and total power while others put laws in place that make it so there will always be a balance of…

authority based on the type of legitimacy claimed therein; legal-rational authority; traditional authority, and charismatic authority. Each type, according to Weber, endows its ruler with a justifiable right to rule,…

ranges from 16 to 18 while in the United States, the limit stands at 21. We are one of the very few countries with such a high age limit. The drinking age in our country of “freedom” needs to be lowered down to the age where mostly everything else is legal; 18. When a person turns the age of 18, they are measured as an adult with the rights to their own decisions; such as the use of tobacco, credit cards, voting, marriage, signing of contracts, gambling, and much more. Out of all of these…

English 101 November 1, 2014 Minimum Legal Drinking Age There are many things that factor into what the people of today’s society think the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) should be. This research paper is going to, first, give a little background on alcohol and what has happened in the past. It will then continue to provide evidence from either side of the argument as to whether or not the MLDA should be lowered or kept the same. I believe the minimum legal drinking age should be lowered to…