Posted on 04/21/2007 9:01:05 PM PDT by sasherm13
I am writing a law school paper n in which I need to create a new law that I think should be passed. I then need to backup the law with public policy as to why it should be passed. I am struggle to come up with a good law that will foster good public policy that has not already been passed in some form or another. The law can be for any governmental body.
Does anyone have any great ideas or at least an area I can start looking
It should be illegal for the federal government to dictate education policy.
Abolish the US Postal Service. Policy arguments for the bill could be both (1) being true to America’s policy of outlawing monopolies, and (2) from a free-market approach, discuss how the Post Office is so much more inefficient (cost and otherwise) than private companies that overlap with some of its services (such as DHL and FedEx).
Good luck in law school! As someone who is finishing her last few weeks of it, I know how hard you’ve worked to get where you are today :)
How about a law stating that every American citizen of legal age shall be required to serve as the country’s “militia” from threats both foreign and domestic? The “we the people militia” will be required to carry guns and prove they know how to use them.
If I were you, I would start by thinking of something that really annoys or worries people. Then propose that it be illegal and that the annoyed/worried person can sue and recover some small ammount of damages.
Recent examples from the real world:
Restricting or prohibiting certain telemarketing calls.
Prohibiting junk faxes.
Making it unlawful to print someone's credit card acct # and exp date on a receipt.
You can do this -- on your own -- just use your noggin.
I agree that every kid should have to perform some sort of national service.
looses = loses (but Im sure you knew dat)
I consider my donations to FreeRepublic to be national service.
Hope some of the thingsmentioned here give you ideas for your paper. (all the world needs in another lawyer … ;-))
This country desperately needs conservative lawyers.
Here are a couple of suggestions:
1. Make “baseline budgeting” illegal. Absolutely NO automatic built-in spending increases allowed in any governmental spending plan. This will mean that the words “cut” and “increase” have genuine meaning in budget discussions and the scumbag politicians will no longer be able to squeal like pigs out both sides of their mouths (at least when talking about budgte numbers).
2. No employer shall be required to “withhold” taxes (ie., be forced to work for the government without compensation), and no income taxes may be legally accepted by the government unless those taxes are paid directly by the taxpayer (cash, check, money order, or electronic transfer).
Good luck!
LH
I beg to disagree … we need fewer lawyers, and of those that remain, may they be conservative! ;-)
Abolish Daylight Savings Time!
bump! :)
Here is one more that one day I will put on a proposition here in California...( God knows it would never get passed in our legislature.
In the same way trial lawyers created the anti-tobacco atmosphere to gain HUGE profits through the taxing of tobacco products ( that was their bribe to the law makers) and the suing of big tobacco. I do not smoke by the way.
Levy a 33% tax on ALL attorneys fees, with that money ONLY to fund dispute resolution education, advertising and then courts and processes that would be manditory to participate in before you can file a case in court.
Once you did file your case the both parties would have to pay 20% of the amount of their attorney fees ( win or lose) to the courts. Then and only then you can present your case to a panel of people, the majority made up of people without any graduate degrees who will decide if your case has merit.
If this panel believes your case is frivolous you will then be forced to attend a mandatory 120 hour “frivolous case sensitivity training” ( Designed by me by the way) before you would be allowed to file another case in court.
I think they already are, But if you get paid in the states, for time overseas, you get taxed on that.
I think the troops should get in-state tuition at all us colleges, no matter where their home of record is.
make day light savings time another hour ahead permanently!
I thought of another one (which would almost single-handedly fix everything that is wrong with our civil law system in this country):
- implement a “loser pays” all court costs & attorneys’ fees system in all civil lawsuits.
Conservative law school? Loser pays for legal expenses in tort cases should go over well. Off the wall - graded driver’s licenses (variable speed limits based on skill - keep teenagers and folks who drive 55 off the interstates).
Read Starship Troopers from heinlein. Only veterans had the right to vote.
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