National Environmental Policy Act

Throughout the United States, lowering the drinking age is a huge discussion. Every American enjoys a drink or two with a friend as a social event. Why does the government feel a person who can be in the military isn’t mature enough to have a drink? Binge drinking is a huge issue among young adults who are not able to drink in a public place. Prohibiting these young adults from drinking will not make them stay away from alcohol. The process of getting the law passed will take much work with…

Ending DUI’s and Deaths The rate of young adults driving under the influence of alcohol throughout the United States is costing people thousands of dollars and some victims even their life. Drinking and driving never truly became illegal until 1910 in New York, ten years later, prohibition started ending the sale, consumption and everything that was alcohol related (Staff). Since then, each state has made laws against drinking and driving and even open containers. In 2010 officers nationwide…

Underage Drinking Underage drinking is a major problem which is leading people to their deaths, however their parents have decided to start groups to prevent underage drinking so they can try to reduce it. Most underage drinkers consequences of alcohol use are vehicle accidents, the leading cause of death for teenagers.(Miller) Many underage drinkers can drink too much and end up losing control of themselves and sexially assault thir femail companions and kill people for example “in 1980 a…

Should we raise the the drinking age? Should we lower the drinking age? These are both questions posed by a majority of people in the United States. As a country, we have a drinking age limit of 21, thus making the consumption of alcohol under this age, illegal. Underage drinking is a problem among many high school students and most college students. They get a thrill from going against the law and “cracking open a brewski”. For some, drinking and parities are a major reason that they choose the…

Over 600,000 kids, ages 12-17 suffer from Alcohol Use Disorder (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 2017). This disorder causes you to create a dependency on alcohol and makes it more difficult to quit drinking. In discussion of the drinking age, one controversial issue has been if the Federal government should lower the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) back to 18. On the other hand, the government has data which proves the number of traffic deaths and accidents caused by alcohol…

Have you ever wondered how eighteen year old men and women are allowed to get married, vote, and fight in the army and are not permitted to drink alcohol? Or how under aged drinkers continue to illegally strive for this “forbidden fruit”? Or lastly how more than half the world can obtain alcohol at eighteen years of age and Americans cannot? These are just a few questions that arise in those who believe the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. The United States Legislature should lower…

even nonexistent. They say that lowering the drinking age would decrease unsafe activity. However, they fail to acknowledge the facts that disagree with their viewpoint. Firstly, lowering the drinking age would mean an increase in car crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that since the drinking age was raised in 1984, the number of fatal traffic accidents for those between eighteen and twenty-one has decreased by thirteen percent. Already, drivers in their first…

of effective national policy, it is not a clause to be relied on for innovative, forward thinking federal environmental legislation. It has, however, allowed for the federal government to pass a handful of environmental policies. For example, the Clean Air Act 1979 was passed through the use of the POGG clause by the federal government. Ultimately though, the Supreme Court through rulings has set precedents in both provincial and federal authority in legislating environmental policy. Between the…

Those are the National Environmental Act No. 47 of 1980, amended in 1988, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, Pradeshiya Sabha Act No. 15 of 1987, Flood Protection Ordinance - Law No. 22 of 1955 Conservation Act Costa No. 57, 1981, the State Land Ordinance - Act No. 13 of 1949, Soil Conservation Act No. 25 of 1951 and Amendment No. 29 of 1952, Mines and Minerals Act No. 33 of 1992, Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance - Law No. 49 of 1983, amended in 2008, National Water Supply…

new government. The first proposals for a system of government, led by the father of the Constitution, James Madison, favored a strong national government composed primarily of a legislature based upon representation by population. His proposal, however, was significantly weakened by the cries of delegates from smaller states insisting that checks on the national government in the name of states’ rights were necessary to prevent tyranny; the distribution of power to the states resulted in…