What are the problems with vague laws?

What are the problems with vague laws?

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Vague laws involve three basic dangers: First, they may harm the innocent by failing to warn of the offense. Second, they encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement because vague laws delegate enforcement and statutory interpretation to individual government officials.

Q. What is vague sentence?

Examples of vague in a Sentence He gave only a vague answer. He longed in some vague way for something different. She felt a vague sense of uneasiness when she was around him. I had the vague impression that they were withholding information.

Q. What is a vague question?

A vague question is a question that is unclear or uncertain. Usually a vague question is out of context and is too broad and not specific to what you are really looking for. When talking about out of context, here are some questions that can easily be used out of context.

Q. Why is our constitution so vague?

The Constitution left many aspects of our governance and our rights intentionally vague, partially because it would have been impossible for the Framers to predict the evolution of society.

Q. Is our Constitution vague?

For all its inspiring rhetoric and historic significance, the U.S. Constitution is also pretty vague at points (not to mention very old-timey sounding). Containing 4,543 words, it takes just a half hour to read, yet it remains the law of the land for a powerful nation of over 300 million people.

Q. Is the rule of law vague?

The rule of law is the absence of arbitrary government. Vagueness in the law leads to arbitrary government in the first three senses. Law is necessarily vague. So arbitrary government—the antithesis of the rule of law—is a necessary feature of the rule of law.

Q. What is a vague law?

Definition. 1) A constitutional rule that requires criminal laws to state explicitly and definitely what conduct is punishable. Criminal laws that violate this requirement are said to be void for vagueness.

Q. What does overbroad mean?

overbroad adj : not sufficiently restricted to a specific subject or purpose [an search] ;esp. : characterized by a prohibition or chilling effect on constitutionally protected conduct [an statute] compare vague.

Q. What is vagueness and overbreadth?

Overbreadth is closely related to its constitutional cousin, vagueness. A regulation of speech is unconstitutionally vague if a reasonable person cannot distinguish between permissible and impermissible speech because of the difficulty encountered in assigning meaning to language.

Q. What is another word for too much?

What is another word for too much?

excessiveextreme
inordinateexorbitant
immoderateextravagant
overboardoverkill
plethoricunrestrained

Q. What is the opposite of too much?

Opposite of exceeding the usual bounds of something. little. conservative. inconsequential. moderate.

Q. When there is too much of something?

Some common synonyms of excessive are exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, and inordinate.

Q. What is a word for someone who is never satisfied?

If someone can’t be satisfied, she is insatiable.

Q. What can I say instead of dream come true?

What is another word for dream come true?

dream become realitydream realized
fantasy fulfilledwish become reality
wish grantedbetter than one’s wildest dreams
couldn’t ask for moredreaming with one’s eyes open
from vision to realityperfect scenario
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