Protective Legislation

Posted on January 23, 2008
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Laws that are enacted to protect a community, a group or a country from various internal and external threats are collectively called protective legislation. Such laws help the government to protect life, property, money and prestige from being damaged and destroyed.

Many countries in the world have resorted to protective legislation to protect their trade, commerce and technology knowing fully well that their own services and products are inferior to what could be obtained from developed countries like the U.S.A. This is not in the best interest of anybody and one’s own people are deprived of superior services and products. Protective legislation restricts innovation, competition, and sense of urgency and kills the desire to improve.

Draconian laws are imposed upon the citizens to save the unity and integrity of the nation from global terrorism. Here protective legislation is proactive in nature in the sense that the government can intrude into the privacy of citizens and arrest people whose activities look suspicious. In the economic front, laws are made to provide protective tariff and to levy heavy tax duties to encourage exports and to discourage import of luxury items to maintain balance of payment position. Laws are also made to influence price policy to suit country made products.

In the U.S. several protective labor laws have been enacted to improve the health, welfare and low-paying substandard working conditions for women. Promulgation of maximum working hours and minimum wage law for women is also a form of protective law. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave firm legal grounds to enforce such protective legislation in a court of law. In many instances the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of such protective legislation.

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