"Because society is always changing, laws should always change to reflect the times as well. In addition, laws should be open to interpretation based on the facts of each individual circumstance."
Write an essay in response to the following statement in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement. Explain your reasoning in a clear, well-organized essay that supports your position. Consider both sides of the issue when developing your response
It is true that society is constantly changing, we have seen over the centuries a marked trend in western countries toward freedom of liberty for all, and as the definition of who is included in "all" changes, so should the laws that were created in the past be updated to reflect these changes. It will be shown that antiquated laws are detrimental to society and often bear marks of past prejudice from lawmakers of the past. It will also be shown that though it is necessary to keep the laws of a country current, there can be negative repercussions if those laws can be brought down too quickly. Lastly, the concept of "spirit of the law" versus letter of the law will be discussed to support the thought that laws should be open to interpretation.
Laws can have past biases or prejudice built in to them. If these laws could never be changed, minorities that were discriminated against through built-in systemic racism would never be able to extricate themselves from under the thumb of oppressive laws. One need only look back to history for proof. During the days of slavery, black men and women were considered property and could not own anything themselves. Laws of the time reflected these biases and once the public opinion grew to recognize them as people in their own right, these laws had to be changed or even stricken from the record to allow them to own land and other belongings. We continue to seek equality in our laws today and without the ability to have our laws reflect the beliefs of our current society, progress would be impossible.
However, Laws that can constantly be changed are subject to constant back and forth depending on the political climate of a country. For example, in US politics today, we see a back and forth between the two main powers who gain office. One will spend their four years in office undoing the work of the previous government, while the other will do much the same if they gain office in the following election. This leads to a stalemate between the two parties and essentially brings the country to a standstill over internal and foreign policies. This example clearly shows, that though there is benefit in undoing bad policy, there is danger in doing so too freely.
Lastly, this author generally agrees that laws should be open to interpretation to a certain extent, this is seen often in court cases where judges rule on either following the spirit of the law versus the letter of the law. In certain court cases, a defendant may try to use the letter of the law as protection claiming that they have done nothing explicitly wrong (this is often seen in white collar crime where there are several grey areas in the law). However, if a defendant has violated the spirit of the law, it is well in the judge's power to issue a verdict of guilty in a well presented trial by the prosecution. This example shows how important it is to consider individual circumstances brought to court.
In conclusion, we have shown that this author mostly agrees with the statement that laws should be changed to reflect the beliefs of the time and that the letter of the law is not always the spirit of the law.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 439, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, lastly, look, may, so, still, well, while, for example, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 86.0 58.6224719101 147% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2624.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 558.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70250896057 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86024933743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56290697896 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476702508961 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 802.8 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.9269731216 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.2 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0373467705955 0.243740707755 15% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0144028233553 0.0831039109588 17% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0209225821517 0.0758088955206 28% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0292997706875 0.150359130593 19% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0231973855273 0.0667264976115 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 48.8420337079 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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