How to Change Laws in the USA

Legal Careers

Legal professionals reinforce and change existing laws in our country. Legal careers are incredibly diverse in responsibility, required education, work atmosphere, and earnings. Legal careers include paralegal, lawyer, judge, legislator, and lobbyist.

From Legal Administration To Law Making

While waiting for laws to change might make you feel like a child waiting for Christmas, laws do change. But not without major pushes from those in law making or legal administration. Anyone with knowledge of post-industrialization history knows that labor laws, for one, make up an ever-evolving entity. While it may now be easy to take for granted our 40-hour work week, safe work environment, and child-labor laws, workers 100 years ago would be astonished by our comparatively trouble-free work conditions.

Penal laws, or criminal laws, have also evolved, often dramatically. Think about when owning another person was not only within the law, but widely expected. And that it was actually breaking the law to help a person find his or her own freedom. On a smaller scale, there are a number of penal codes that, even as they might seem laughable, have been put into effect to establish repercussions for breaking them. For instance, in Alabama it is illegal for a person to be blindfolded while driving a motorized vehicle; in New York it is unlawful to throw a ball at someone's head for fun; and in Texas it is illegal to milk another person's cow!

Whether they are working on a major law to protect the safety and well-being of others or a law to protect others' cows, we need responsible and intelligent people working in legal careers, both as legal administrators and law makers. If you'd like to have a say in our laws, consider one of the many legal careers out there.