Todays big government is a
typical display of bureaucracy in its
most creative state. Due to the
enormous bureaucracy within
todays state governments, many
laws have been passed through
legislation that really didn't need to
be passed. These laws are a display
of the way government likes to show
power over the people using legal
suppression. Governments have
created laws governing almost
anything that the people do as an act
of blatant suppression, even if the
laws my never be able to be
unforced.
In reviewing many law books,
many laws were found that did not
seem to do anything but annoy the
general populous. These laws and
ordinances are used by the
government to show power without
having to be confronted by any
particular person who might have
been affected, because these legal
suppressors will most likely not be
enforced by the local law-
enforcement agencies.
In Alabama it is legal to drive
a motor vehicle while you are
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historic photograph taken of the pioneer Browning ...blindfold. Most of the people in our
nation most likely would not decide
to drive with a blindfold on. Yet, the
Alabama state government needs to
have power so it passed the 'no
driving while blindfold' law.
Alabama is not the only state with
laws that seem useless. In California
community leaders passed an
ordinance that makes it illegal for
anyone to try to stop a child from
playfully jumping over puddles of
water. The fine for such a crime is
fifty dollars and up to ten days in
jail. Once again a government
decided it didn't have enough power
and thought that it might as well
impose a new law to show its
'immense' power over the people.
In Connecticut you can be
stopped be the police for bike riding
over sixty-five miles an hour. You
can also be...
:-(
Lawmaking is a very arduous task and lawmakers do not have the power to spew out random laws! Obviously you are familiar with the site dumblaws.com which is a great starting point but instead of setting the tone of you paper as lawmakers made these laws because they can--we all know that that is false, it wouldn't be a democracy if that was the case. You could have validated you claims made in your paper by focusing on the true reasons these laws were enacted. Many of these laws had rational beginning but the problem is that once society got past that issue no one bothered to take them off the books. I think your paper would have been much more interesting if you would have approached it from that angle.
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