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Whoever joins the new economic team may very well be pushing next year for a complete overhaul of the tax code. Bush has not fully settled on the idea, but it makes political sense. It would show the Administration taking a big swipe at fixing the economy and would allow Bush to defend any new tax cuts by arguing that the reductions are just one part of making the system fairer...
Doherty says that a number of students still had to submit paper applications this year due to computer problems, and a handful of first-years lacked the necessary PIN code to access the application...
Amendment A sets a dangerous precedent by allowing individual interpretation of what must be a common legal code. Order and stability in our society are guaranteed by the existence of a single standard of conduct that all citizens must obey. Regardless of whether an individual agrees with the justice of a law, that individual is compelled to abide by the law or face criminal penalties. Jury nullification undermines the status of the legal code as applicable to all members of society by introducing an element of caprice into what should be a completely fair, standard judicial process. Arbitrary conviction based...
...people by voiding an individual law in a specific case undermines the democratic nature of the American legal system. If the people perceive the law as arbitrarily determined by a 12-member panel lacking any accountability to the citizenry at large, popular confidence in a uniform legal code will disappear...
Constant modification of the legal code mirrors the changes in American life over time. The rise of the Internet has sparked a huge corpus of new law; the civil rights movement caused existing laws to be overturned and replaced with far different statutes. Inevitably, there are outdated laws on the books reflecting the popular will of a different time. The overcrowded justice system prevents many of these laws from being overturned, as more pressing cases take up the limited time of lawyers and judges alike. In practice, police and prosecutors rarely enforce outdated statutes dealing with small issues. Likewise, some...