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To: LS

Have you seen or heard of this?

The 5 elements of good laws:

1. Generality - Laws shouldn’t be specially carved out to benefit one group or to attack or harm a narrow group of individuals.

2. Prospectivity - This is the constraint on ex post facto laws. Laws should always apply in the future and never to the past.

3. Publicity - Laws should be broadly published and well known, both to the representatives themselves and general public.

4. Consent - Laws must be generally acceptable to those who will live by them.

5. Proper due process - Due process means that the law is meted out equally and fairly with each similar crime being treated the same. Justice must be blind.


144 posted on 12/15/2014 8:15:32 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

No, but this is common sense.


146 posted on 12/16/2014 3:55:22 AM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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