Legislative Drafting and Analysis in the Real World.
Focuses on how laws are written and how the legislature operates in American society. Posts are of interest to writers, lawyers, lobbyists, and the general reader. How the "sausage" of law is made.
If language is not correct,
Then what is said is not what is meant.
If what is said is not what is meant,
Then what ought to be done remains undone.
Confucius (551-479 BCE)
Philosopher, politician, teacher.
Law writers use the word...
Toward the end of each year, constituents, journalists, and others become (understandably) quite interested in what new laws are becoming effective when. In North Carolina, the Legislative Library tracks those dates and publishes a very useful list of...
"<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country: he is a Bird of bad moral character: like those among Men who live by Sharping and Robbing, he is generally...
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In 1749, when the colonial Assembly of North Carolina decided to retain an official printer, James Davis (1721-1785), of Virginia, was the man and he then became the first printer in North...
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Printers' ornaments are decorative motifs used to fill in page space, signify the end of a chapter or the end of a book and generally add an aesthetic quality to the printed page. They have been...
