The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1908-05-22
Making
Law
Difficulty of Franz
ing Good
Laws Is Enormous
BY non. JAMES BRYCE.
Briush Ambassador ~ United states.

HE difficulty of framing good enormous the
work is IN most countries longer the comparatively
task OF repeating old lave which humpcryl and consrn,
E@A@H the Standardization simple work but the far harder
E&AH task Of creating laws which shall guide and help
BHBI men to attaining tine ends they bent Seventy years
Ie9I ago people thought that u great thing freedom. When
~g~ they had got 1t they dissatisfied and instead Of simply
- letting everything and everybody alone to work their
veal or Individuals principles, they forthwith
work TO forbid things which had tolerated before and to throw
upon government all Of functions difficult and delicate
than those Of which they had stripped DO
The demand for profuon of aton inevitable; and the diff
guilty Of having good micnob In what does the difficulty consist?
In three things First of to., who demand legislation many
understand exactly what is the evil they desire the good they seek
to attain Secondly when they do understand the evil they seldom know
what the proper remedy auabc they seldom
perceive the best it, Thirdly the number measures.
Dial and constructive called for large that very hard to select
OF them those urgently needed NO legislation deal with all at
Where many being pressed by different persons they
iosle another and like people crushing another in the
exits OF hr they move more slowly than If they were made to pass
along in regular ortcr.
The task Of legislation difficult owing the
completely Of modern civilization industry and
the growth Of modes Of production and distribution that
need to be regulated yet regulated interfere with the free
play Of individual enterprise.
Many of the problems which legislation presents hard
for the ordinary members and for the ADLER members Of legislative
bodies because they cannot be mastered without special knowledge OF
may be added that in the United States further difficulty arises from
he fact that legal skin often required to avoid ansgrcssng some
provision of the federal a state constuon)
The conditions make it desirable have organized system
Cor the gathering and examination Of materials for legislation and espc
sally for collecting the laws passed in other countries subjects Of
cent importance
TO the pushing forward of needed in the public
interest there should be in every legislature arrangements by which
definite body of become responsible for the conduct of
legislation.
Bills Of local personal nature ought to be separated from bills
general applicability dealt with different and quasi judicial
Arrangements ought be made for instance by the creation Of
lrang department connected with legislature its chief committees
putting into proper legal form Of all bills introduced
Similarly method should be provided for rcctng in bills before
they become law such drafting may have pt them
ing their passage.
When bill of experimental kind has been passed. its workings
houd be carefully watched and periodically reported respects
both the extent which it is actually enforced Cor found enfocoabe
and the practical results Of the enforcement
enable both legislature and the people
law force actually and thereby facilitate good ega
ton law ought be periodically revised and far pos
sbe consolidated be brought into compact consistent and in
telgiblc shape