New Laws

Laws are generally formed with a specific intent behind them. When drafted, people in the government are motivated to help the people as best as they can, or to express authority over the people. In the mid-1700s, the British government thought the same thing. They imposed various laws, such as the Sugar Act, commonly known as the American Revenue Act, to generate revenue. New England colonists were openly opposed to this act because they were worried that the tax on foreign molasses would…

abortion, and the Legislative Branch brought forward a law that could possibly stop abortion. The judicial branch states that abortions should be taken serious and laws, and laws that blocks them are unconstitutional, here is why. During the 1960s and the 1970s, there was a feminist movement. It was better known as the sexual revolution. There were two graduates that took on a lawsuit on pregnant woman named “Jane Roe” overall, announcing that the law within the state that she’s in criminalizes…

following a traditional model of doing business, strictly regulated and accessible only to the practitioners of the law. With the arrival of the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA), the United Kingdom’s £25 billion legal market became one of the most liberalized and innovative on earth. The new system allows companies that are not strictly law firms to offer legal services. At the same time it gives law firms the opportunity to take investments from third parties and undertake activities in other…

Does the new constitutional dispensation warrant a shift in approach to judicial review on the ground of errors of law from the common law approach? If so why and in what way? If not, why? The new constitutional dispensation warrants a shift in the approach to judicial review on the ground of errors of law from the common law approach. This essay will argue that the shift has already occurred, but it is not a case of leaving the old ways of doing things in the past. By exploring the evolution…

Almost every day, a new social issue is talked about, whether it be medical discoveries or a new technical development. A common question that often comes up when a new medical development is made, is if it’s morally acceptable. For example, when the discovery, made by Marie Stopes, of the birth control pill came out in 1950’s many were sceptical and against it. It was not forced on to anyone, it was simply a discovery, but many were against it due to religion practises, it was considered anti…

example of natural law. The Constitution invokes the laws of nature and nature’s God giving people unalienable rights accorded by God. There is no doubt that the delegates who adopted the Constitution believed that it was based on natural law (Golove, 2010). That is, God created the universe and incorporated a body of law into human nature to which all people are subject. As a natural law, the US Constitution focuses on protecting the unalienable rights given to people. Natural law based on the…

Recently there has been a lot of controversy about adding new laws and regulations meant to prohibit guns. However, added gun laws would not only be unwanted by the citizens but could potentially harm them. It would also most likely harm the economy significantly, and is a direct violation of a constitutional right. The main reason people are interested in creating new gun regulations is because of mass shootings and other gun related deaths. Someone who commits a murder using a gun would be…

wanting law and order the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia couldn’t be more different in their execution of criminal justice. Criminal Justice in the United States began as soon as white European settlers landed in America. Under the leadership…

rights. However, what about those laws that our government chooses to adhere to when and how they see fit? What of the laws our president believes he can carry out in the way he wants, with little or no rebuke? What about the laws that infringe on our human rights given by God or outlined in the Constitution? Something like this should not be permissible as it violates our rights and our trust in our government. This movement towards correction on making of laws would be the process needed to…

United States Supreme Court case involving the constitutionality of a state civil commitment law, and how that law was being applied to persons who had been convicted of certain crimes. The law in question, was designed to civilly commit people who had a history of predatory sexual violence, and who had a personality disorder, or who had a mental abnormality (Cornell University, n.d.) In generic terms, the law was designed so that people, who have a history of sexual violence, and who were…