Good laws Help

Why Law are a mean of social control?: Two fold objectives of law to serve is, firstly, to keep up stability and afford orderly life in the society. Secondly, to persuade social change by changing itself according to the needs of the changing society. Thus, law is an important agency of social control. The society supervenes the law for bettermost socialization. Rule of law in any constitution is the bedrock for democracy. By putting fear in th minds of public, the law is a helpful agency for social control. Law regulates the behaviour of the people in society. Law, by using force, makes the people conscious about their duties and obligations. Law saves precious and good concepts of the society. The exploitation of the people is curbed through law. The constitution of India, criminal, civil laws and other statutes are designed to surmount this goal.

Why Good laws fail Good laws fail, as the power or total control is in the hands of few people. The system is not strong enough to involve everyone in the government and involve the public or good citizens in the governance framework. Involvement may be present to some extent, but the essence of responsibility and consequences are not present for people to be unaware or support wrong actions knowingly. Today, most of people have to support the powerful person or group, to sustain and retain their posts or grow. Even if they disobey, good orders they do not have any consequences - they can be either suspended or transferred. The logic of not able to remove the person even after multiple issues is the biggest loopholes in the system. The entire system works under the influence of the name of the leader, if the leader is popular. Everyone will be required to do even the wrong things under the pressure of popularity. Leaders do not come to serve people and go, they come to build political and government careers - their earning source is politics both within the bureaucracy and outside the bureaucracy. The logic of their actions is not recorded and they cannot be held responsible for the losses or issues which people have to face at a later stage. This brings leniency, laziness, relationship attachments, arrogance, and ignorance very easily in the minds of people who are in governing capacities.

'''Our new constitution will be able to address all the possible loopholes and people issues, which may arise in the future as well. We need to start and build it up, instead of ignoring and thinking it as not possible or difficult.'''

How laws, policies and constitutional amendments have brought desired changes to some extent

In india, RTI brought some changes - it brought more accountability. As the government was required to share information with the public. Still, RTI has not been implemented properly as most of the good appeals are rejected to save people at bigger posts. There are no records or logic of why an RTI and its appeal were rejected.

The ninth Schedule became a part of the Constitution in 1951, when the document was amended for the first time. It was created by the new Article 31B, which along with 31A was brought in by the government to protect laws related to agrarian reform and for abolishing the Zamindari system.

Reforms in the election system of india, have brought some changes.

The 1950 A.D., national constitution of India legally abolished the practice of untouchability and provided measures for positive discrimination in both educational institutions and public services for Dalits and other social groups who lie within the caste system. These are supplemented by official bodies such as the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Due to many caste-based discriminations in Nepal, the government of Nepal has legally abolished the caste-system and criminalized any caste-based discrimination, including "untouchability" - in the year 1963 A.D.

States Reorganisation Act, 1956 - The Act came into effect at the same time as the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956,[2] which (among other things) restructured the constitutional framework for India's existing states and the requirements to pass the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 under the provisions of Part I of the Constitution of India, Article 3. The States Reorganisation Act was enacted on 31 August 1956. Before it came into effect on 1 November, an important amendment was made to the Constitution of India. Under the Seventh Amendment, the existing terminology of Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D states was altered. The distinction between Part A and Part B states was removed, becoming known simply as "states". A new type of entity, the Union Territory, replaced the classification as a Part C or Part D state.

The last century has witnessed an unprecedented change in the American workplace. Starting in the 1920s, major laws were passed that guaranteed protections, redistributed power, and regulated everything from wages to hours to union-management to hiring practices. Racial minorities saw new laws reverse decades of discriminatory hiring practices, as did women, immigrants, older Americans, and other vulnerable groups. Laws were enacted to improve workplace safety, to prevent child labor, and to bolster unions while preventing union bosses from exploiting their own members.

The division of India and Pakistan after independence was also done basis laws and decisions taken by the government and Britishers at that point in time and everyone had to follow it blindly. There was no choice to even protest.

The Slave Trade Act 1807 - The effect of the Slave Trade Act, once passed, was rapid: the Royal Navy, which was the leading power at sea at the time, patrolled the coast of West Africa and between 1808 and 1860 freed 150,000 captured slaves. In 1833, slavery was finally banned throughout the British Empire. The power of laws eliminated slavery as well.

In the 21st century, the concept of universal health care witnessed Obama giving his name "Obamacare" in the strongest democracy - while he was alive. In India, after death, the name of the person is used.

The First Act of Supremacy 1534 - This declared that Henry VIII was the Supreme Head of the Church of England instead of the Pope. It gave Henry VIII additional licence to continue plundering and shutting down monasteries, which had been huge centres of power in England, with significant consequences in that their role in alleviating poverty, and providing healthcare and education, was lost; and it led to centuries of internal and external conflict between the Church of England and other faiths, some of which is still ongoing today.

The Factory Act 1833 - The Factory Act of 1833, among a host of changes, banned children under 9 from working in textile mills, banned children under 18 from working at night, and children between 9 and 13 were not permitted to work unless they had a schoolmaster’s certificate showing they had received two hours’ education per day – so the Factory Act not only improved factory conditions, but also began to pave the way towards education for all.

The Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 - In 1824, a group of reformers founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which we know today as the RSPCA. Several of those reformers had also been involved in the abolition of the slave trade, such as the MP William Wilberforce. Their initial focus was on working animals such as pit ponies, which worked in mines, but that soon expanded. The 1835 Act, for which the charity’s members lobbied, outlawed bear-baiting and cockfighting, as well as paving the way for further legislation for things such as creating veterinary hospitals, and improving how animals were transported.

Banning triple talak in india - gave more security for women in their family life.

Implementation of GST was also a law which helped in reducing taxes and changing the way business was done.

The banning of few currency notes in India was a decision to eliminate black money. This was also a major law that was enforced and accepted by everyone. More than 80% of the currency went out of circulation and had a good impact on business and the economy as well.

The Married Women’s Property Act 1870 - it gave a woman the right to control money she earned while married, as well as keeping the inherited property, and made both spouses liable to maintain their children from their separate property – something that was important in relation to custody rights on divorce. The Act was not retrospective, so women who had married and whose property had come into the ownership of their husbands were not given it back, which limited its immediate effect. But ultimately, it was a key stage on the long road to equality between men and women in Britain.

The Education Act 1870 - The 1870 Education Act didn’t provide free education for all – that wouldn’t come until 1944 – but it did ensure that schools would be built and funded wherever they were needed, so that no child would miss out on an education simply because they didn’t live near a school.

The Representation of the People Act 1918 - The law was changed so that men aged over 21, or men who had turned 19 while fighting in the First World War, were given the vote. But it was also evident that women had contributed hugely to the war effort, and so they too were given the vote under restricted circumstances: the vote was granted to women over 30 who owned property, were graduates voting in a university constituency, or who were either a member or married to a member of the Local Government Register. The belief was that this set of limitations would mean that mostly married women would be voting, and therefore that they would mostly vote the same way as their husbands, so it wouldn’t make too much difference. Women were only granted equal suffrage with men in 1928. Now with the new laws - women and men have the equal voting rights and children do not have.

The National Health Service Act 1946 - This was the principle that healthcare should be free at the point of service, paid for by a system of National Insurance so that everyone paid according to what they could afford. One of the principles behind this was that if healthcare were free, people would take better care of their health, thereby improving the health of the country overall. Or to put it another way, someone with an infectious disease would get it treated for free and then get back to work, rather than hoping it would go away, infecting others and leading to lots of lost working hours. It’s an idea that was, and remains, hugely popular with the public. However, the law is now changed again and healthcare is commerical.

The 52nd amendment to the Constitution, carried out last fortnight by the two Houses of the Parliament where the ruling Congress(I) enjoys a steamroller majority, is purported to end the era of fickle-mindedness in politics. Personally for Rajiv, nothing could have boosted his clean image more a month before the assembly elections in 11 states of the Union, more so because it is the Congress(I) rather than the Opposition which has unquestionably been the traditional beneficiary of defection.

Anti-defection law - Of the 2,700-odd recorded cases of defection between 1967 and 1983, as many as 1,900 defected into the Congress or the Congress(I): and, of the 15 chief ministers who defected during this period to usurp the lofty chair, at least 10 were Congressmen. The amendment bill, which was enacted in Parliament despite an opposition walk-out, puts a summary end to 35 years of "legislative anarchism" in Indian politics by making floor-crossing almost impossible. It provides that a member of either Houses of Parliament or state legislature will cease to be a member:

Panchayati Raj System - 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments were passed by Parliament in December, 1992. Through these amendments local self-governance was introduced in rural and urban India.