Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SIXTIES, a man in Southern California was arrested for growing corn over seven feet high. Simultaneously, the Johnson administration examined the embarrassingly obsolete and arbitrary body of law known as the United States criminal code. Now 13 years old, the criminal code reform effort has produced not one new law. Which is probably a very good thing. The code reform rubric has covered three of the most repressive bills to have been considered by Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts...
...glaring repressiveness of these bills has obscured, however, the dangers inherent in any attempt to overhaul the entire U.S. code in one bill...
Throughout the history of the reform effort, legislators have agreed on only one point--current law is a gruesome parody of a modern criminal code, replete with inconsistencies and outdated statutes...
Unfortunately, Nixon and Mitchell law and order paranoia tainted the early code reform efforts. When President Johnson founded the Brown Commission in 1966, charging it with recommending paths to code reform, it was well-stocked with good liberals...
...lines won Jimmy Carter more cheers in his election campaign than his charge that the nation's tax system is a "disgrace." As President, he pledged to make the tax code "simple, fair, equitable [and] progressive" and to "substantially reduce" the burden on the taxpayer. But Carter discovered that Congress had its own idea of just what kind of tax program the nation needs...