What are some unjust laws?

Question

I need to know what are some unjust laws for my law education class.

Answer 1

it is illegal to park your space ship in central park after 7 pm. its one of those stupid laws they made many yrs ago that was never removed.

Answer 2

What Are Some Unjust Laws

Answer 3

Economic based gun bans, which are aimed at disarming the poor. These were known as "Army and Navy Pistol" laws when first proposed by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1800s, then bacame known as "Saturday Night Special" laws from a term used by a pawn shop just outside Harlem to advertise inexpensive pistols during prohibition, "Special - Perfect Protection for a Ni--er Town Saturday Night!". Now such laws are known as "Junk Gun" laws and, as always, include many well made, but low cost, pistols and revolvers.

Answer 4

The brand-new "Partial Birth Abortion Ban" is unjust. It lets Congress pretend that they know something about medicine and declare that a particular medical procedure is never necessary. It provides for no exceptions when the health of the woman is at risk. I'd call a body that consists of mostly men deciding what's good for women unjust.

Answer 5

Most laws are unjust to somebody.

Answer 6

that (released) convicted sexual offenders are allowed to live in neighborhoods that kids live in - or anywhere close (meaning within 5 miles) of schools, churches, playgrounds, etc. I think it is disgusting and just asking for a repeat of the offense to let them mix back in with regular society, as it is here in Spokane, Washington. Our neighborhood kids play in a recently convicted sex offender's front yard, even after I have warned their parents. Sick, and very scary. Why are the offenders given any rights, namely, why are they allowed to be released back into our quaint, supposedly safe neighborhood after proving they can't be trusted? This disease doesn't just go away with a little jail counselling, I show NO mercy or pity, they all need to be locked up or sent to an island to prey on each other instead of innocent kids!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Try looking up old Blue Laws. They are usually old laws that are totally stupid. One such ex. is a law I think that was in Texas that says that a man can beat his wife with a stick as long as it's no bigger in diameter than his thumb.

Answer 8

The laws don't mean anything if there are corrupt prosecutors, AG's & judges swaying the jury.
The 3 Border Agents, case in point.

Answer 9

(1) Immigration law. Just because of an accident of birthplace, some people are barred from working for American employers who want to hire them. This violates the private property rights of U.S. citizens who want to hire and/or rent to foreign nationals. Freedom of travel is a fundamental human right. The violation of that right is what made the Berlin Wall so abhorrent. Now we're talking about building a wall on U. S. soil.

(2) Voter ID Laws. The number of legitmate voters disenfranchised by these laws far exceeds the number of fraudulent voters thwarted. I've voted in every national election since 1968, except the last one. In the last election, I was duly registered at my current address. My name & address were on the register at my polling place. I presented my current Arizona State Voter ID card, with my correct name & current address. I also had a picture ID from work & an Arizona State Drivers License (even though I no longer own a car) but with my old address. I was not allowed to vote because my license had the old address. Under Arizona law, I would have been allowed to vote (even without a Voter Identification Card or picture ID) if I could have shown two bills with my current address. But my utilities are included in my rent. I don't get a rent receipt because the apartment manager's office is only open during the hours that I am at work. Given a couple months, I might have collected some kind of bill to show them (in violation of my 4th Amendment right to be secure in my papers), but the Arizona Voter ID law had been enjoined (is that the right word?) by the 9th Circuit Court, so I was confident that my Voter ID card alone would be sufficient. But the Friday before the election, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 9th Circuit Court's injunction. Two of my ancestors fought for America in the Revolution. My great-grandfather was severely wounded fighting for the Union in the Civil War. I served 5 years in the United States Army. But because I couldn't produce a cable TV bill and a bottled water bill, the Republicans took away my right to vote.

(3) The federal law that makes Californians and Oregonians subject to federal arrest for growing medicinal marijuana for their own use on their own property in states that have specifically authorized them to do so.

(4) Emminent domain laws in some places that allow the government to confiscate private land (at a "fair" price determned by the government) in order to turn it over to other private citizens for profit (e.g. shopping malls).

(5) The law that makes it illegal to deliver regular mail in competition with the post office. Lysander Spooner struggled with this back in 1844. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner

(6) The law requiring the filing of tax returns. The16th Amendment requires us to pay income tax, however the requirement to fill out the information in returns is a gross and massive violation of the 4th and 5th Amendments.

(7) I heard about some homes in California that were destroyed by a brush fire because the owners had been forbidden to clear brush from around their homes because it was a habitat for a protected species of rat. If that prohibition was put into place after the owners had bought the land, then it constituted confiscation of property without just compensation.

For many more examples, see "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" http://www.amazon.com/Aint-Nobodys-Business-You-Consensual/dp/0931580587
The author later died of starvation because the government prevented him from taking medical marijuana to control nausea induced by the drugs he was taking to manage his AIDS.

Answer 10

I would say all victimless crimes are unjust laws. i.e. simple possession, prostitution, and the like.

Answer 11

Relious freedoms there are so many laws against religion in this country we would a week to go through them.