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
how about a law that says only property owners can vote... like in the old days...
What law school do you go to? I’m a lawyer, out of law school 10 years, and I’ve got to say no self-respecting law prof at my alma mater would have toss out an assignment like that - it’s about the softest of softballs I’ve ever seen lobbed at a law student.
Require law school exchange programs where students from the top 20 law schools have to spend a semester at randomly selected 4th tier law schools and a 4th tier student spends the semester at a top 20 law school.
Abolish the Blue Book and Shepards.
Require all 1st year law students to read Blackstone's Commentaries and randomly selected Yearbooks of Edward III and Richard II.
Limit the franchise to veterans.
Institute the librium veto whenever a Democrat is in the White House or in control of either house of Congress.
whoops, I meant “no self-respecting law prof would have TOSSED out an assignment...”.
A Conservative Law School? Does that actually exist?
I would go with three laws repealed for every new law passed.
Abolish law reviews, require all top 10% law students to tutor the bottom 10%.
Require law school exchange programs where students from the top 20 law schools have to spend a semester at randomly selected 4th tier law schools and a 4th tier student spends the semester at a top 20 law school.
Why would you want socialism in law schools? =
I'd just abolish the 4th tier law schools altogether as (1) we have too many lawyers already and (2) so many students going these 4th tier schools are being duped into thinking that they'll have a profitable legal career, when in most cases they will have to scrimp to get by, and many will end up bankrupt due to their $120,000 law school debt.
That is an invitation to pork.
How about this....
The day you are elected to office is the day we start to tabulate the amount of time you will serve in a federal prison when your term is up. If you serve as a senator for six years figure 6 in the pen. ..... UNLESS.... at the time of your retirement or defeat from office, the people will use the voting ballot determine if you should serve that sentence and if so how much. Or in the case of a good Senator you would not spend any time in jail.
The effect? Less incumbent candidates, less corruption, and fewer attention starved people running for office without any skill to govern. People would have to think long and hard if the perks of office would be worth it if they knew they had to spend the same amount of time in jail that they served.
THAT would be accountability.
I do agree that the 4th and many 3rd tier law schools should probably be closed down.... but I'd then take a libertarian tack and let anyone who wanted to sit for the bar....there are too many lawyers and too few good lawyers. The debt people have to rack up for law school now is unbelievable...I'm very glad my total debt from law school was $1,000, which I paid off with my signing bonus.
Here is one that I have for some time thought would be worthwhile:
“Upon reaching the age of 18 all males must register for service in the armed forces (nothing new with that part) AND also present themselves for a reversable vasectomy, at government expense. Upon presentation of a valid marriage license and certificate of marriage, they may then have the vasectomy reversed, at government expense”.
I would say not letting functionally illiterate people OUT of law school! :-)
More seriouser I would say the original US Constitution plus the first ten amendments.
Every legislator should be required to wear a full-face motorcycle helmet while performing public business.
Ok here is another one of my pet ideas:
“Before any American citizen can qualify to run for any Congressional office (House or Senate) or the President or Vice President of the U.S., they must have owned and operated, for no less than five consecutive years, a business that employed no less than four individuals, none of whom can be members of the candidtate’s immediate family”
I would endorse a new law that bans the banning things. This would make it much harder for liberals to continue their socialist efforts to control every aspects of our lives.
Right behind that, I woud pass a law that makes Congress a part-time legislature. They should convene for no more than four months per year and only every other year. This would limit the mischief and damage they do to our nation. The bums would also have to get real jobs to make ends meet.
Shoot that's what I do for a living. A lot of it depends on what state you are in.
Read your local newspaper and consider well publicized crimes recently in your area and how they might be averted in the future. How about a lower tax on something? How about making vagrants convicted for multiple offenses work off their time cleaning up your nearby skid row. One idea would be a law to make CCWs easier in the wake of the VT shootings where no one was able to fend off the shooter.
We need a sunset law for sure. Or do what the Romans did and allow for a one year dictator in time of crisis. Maybe once every ten years you let someone just erase any law that didn’t make sense, or lower budgets by dictat. Maybe give them the power to eliminate 10% of the budget.
It’s clear we aren’t eliminating the deadwood fast enough.
-OR-
All high school graduates should serve 2 years in the military (you could use Israel as an example)
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All elected officials get only social security... none of that pension plan crap.
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term limits for senators and congressmen
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A law that outlaws pork in bills.
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A law that mandated testing for BSE for every animal slaughtered for human consumption.
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A national law clearly stating that every parent has the right to homeschool their children AND allowing parents to send their child to whatever school they choose. (With vouchers attached to each child, not to the schools.)
I could go on and on and on... :-)
We are! LOL! (Unless you mean for LIFE... that would be cool.)
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