Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
It is important for a society to have clear and firm laws in place to govern its people. That said, life is not always cut and dry. Sometimes a matter that may appear to be within or beyond the boundaries of a legal code requires further examination of evidence before a determination on legality can be made. For that reason, laws should contain language that makes them flexible enough to apply to various circumstances, times, and places. This can be clearly articulated through closer examination of the U.S. Constitution, which is a legal doctrine, not a moral code. As a legal doctrine, much of what it permits and prohibits feels anachronistic today.
The Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, was born as a direct consequence of the Revolutionary War. Fearful that supreme power could once more fall in the hands of an individual ruler, the Founding Fathers permitted the populace to keep guns in the event that a militia was required to contest omnipotence. Fast forward two hundred and fifty years, and the guns available to U.S. citizens today would look unrecognizable to those the Founding Fathers permitted. Semi-automatic guns, for example, pose serious threats to the population, as evident by the countless mass shootings executed with such weaponry that have taken place over the past few decades. Here lies an instant in which the Second Amendment ought to be reconsidered and adjusted to reflect today’s reality. Because the language of the Second Amendment is so vague regarding the weapons it permits, mass-scale killing machines are able to be legally obtained in most areas of the country.
Similarly, the concept of marriage as defined by the U.S. constitution is insufficient to accommodate many citizens in America today. The clause “between a man and a woman” may have been sufficient in the 1770s -- though, undoubtedly, it hindered gay rights -- but for today’s populace, it does not cut it. Social norms have changed greatly, and our conception of a romantic relationship is far broader than it was post-revolution. In this case, because the law is so specific -- likely because the Founders were not thinking seriously about the potentially gay or bisexual settlers among them -- it is incapable of providing just treatment to all citizens.
It is true that laws can be too accommodating. If extenuating circumstances are too broad, it can be difficult to prove civil claims beyond a reasonable doubt. For example, the concept of “qualified immunity,” which stipulates that, unless a police officer commits a crime that has exact precedent, charges cannot be filed, is too broad and allows for too many miscarriages of justice. In this case, however, laws are formed retroactively to prevent repeated misuses of power by officers. This issue could be ameliorated to an extent if officer misconduct were judged by a pre-existing code of conduct.
Ultimately, laws need to be flexible enough to allow for change and reinterpretation, without being so broad that they cannot uphold justice. This form of governance can be accomplished by critically analyzing every case and regularly testing our governing documents to see if they are adequate for the current moment.
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- The well being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and s 86
- The well being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and su 70
- Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances times and places Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing 83
- The well being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and su 70
- Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain y 83
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, may, regarding, second, similarly, so, for example, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2694.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 521.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17082533589 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77759609229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03389409484 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 300.0 215.323595506 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575815738964 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 848.7 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0346571759 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.130434783 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.652173913 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.73913043478 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150338346819 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0419218005697 0.0831039109588 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043346292873 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0829074049803 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0422356648911 0.0667264976115 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.33 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 152.0 100.480337079 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.