Sunday, January 27, 2019

Legal Reform on an Issue -- Proposal Argument Essay

Considering Proposing Legal Reform? 
Be sure that you understand what is involved in legal reform before including it in your proposal essay.
Use the handouts below.


Proposal Argument
Legal Reform on an Issue

In the past, students have asked about the possibility of including legal reform in their proposal argument essay.  While this is perfectly acceptable to include, but not required, you will first need to understand what goes into legal reform in the United States.

PROPOSAL FOR LAW REFORM
If your proposal (Essay 1) is to argue for laws to be passed to remedy the opioid crisis in America, you may want to review the 18th Amendment information regarding the Volstead Act and American Prohibition. To understand what it takes to pass such reform, as well as monitor and police the public, you need to understand how prohibition came about, was legalized, policed, and eventually repealed.  Learning from this historical legal reform will help you structure your proposal argument logically.
Below, you can find some information to understand the general guidelines of what began the time known as Prohibition.  While the Federal Government passed the law, it left enough flexibility for the individual States to decide how to enforce and restrict alcohol consumption in their own areas since who better would know the needs and beliefs of their local people.

See the attachment about the Volstead Act if you are considering legal reform in your proposal argument essay.

Reform Handout
Additional Resources for Essay 1





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Essay 3 Cause/Effect Argument

Design and Development Handouts

· Know the Guidelines: Cause/Effect Argument Essay Writing—view the planning, outlining, and development handouts for the cause/effect essay.

· Sample thesis for a causal argument: this handout shows a sample cause/effect THESIS, the break-down of that THESIS, and how the essay would be structured to develop and argue the THESIS.

· Flow, Length, and Content of a Typical Body-paragraph: a specific break-down of what is expected in a well-developed body-paragraph of an argument paper.

· Need Ideas for Cause/Effect Essay??: this handout provides 'spring-board' articles and images to help you think through how you feel about the topic and possible cause/effect relationships. These are not scholarly sources. They are simply readings to help you understand different ideas surrounding the issue.