“Governments are justified in circumventing civil laws when doing so is vital to the protection of national security.”
Write an essay in which you take a position on the statement above. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true.
It is said that it is justifiable that governments ignore and bypass civil laws when in a vital situation they need to protect national security. I believe that breaking a law is not justified for anyone even for the government unless the security of citizens is really threatened.
Civil laws are some rules related to the citizens’ affairs, such as marriage, property ownership and freedom. According to these laws people have the right to manage their lives the way they like, and governments are not allowed to interfere. So, individuals are satisfied when their rights are respected, and governments do not infringe on what is considered citizens’ rights. Even politicians should not be allowed to circumvent the rules because after a while this situation can cause public outrage. For example, in my country, during the time of president Ahmadi Nejad, politicians were not forced to report their financial abilities, as a result, embezzlement occurred. Therefore, huge sums of money that were the right of people were stolen. At that time many individuals protested and went on strike because they believed that their civil rights related to the tax they paid had been ignored. To be precise, one of the civil laws is related to freedom of coverage. However, in my country, based on some political and religious issues, women are forced to have a hijab, and they are not permitted to dress in the way they like. Many Iranian women have found this situation unfair, as a result every year we can see that many of them, ranging from young to old decide to migrate to other countries in which they can gain their civil rights.
However, in some emergency situations, governments have no choice but to bypass civil rules to provide security for people. I can remember, five years ago, some opponents of government laws tried to evoke young people to go on the streets to break the windows of stores, trees and light fires. In this condition, officials were forced to forbid commuting on all roads to arrest offenders. Also, they interrupted the internet to limit the access of such people to other juveniles. We can see that accessibility of the internet which is a part of people’s civil rights for a limited time was curtailed just because officials wanted to keep national security. In such a situation, circumventing laws is acceptable. Ignorance of civil laws also can be justified with a straightforward example. In my country, there are special lanes for buses that car drivers are not allowed to use them, and driving offenders are financially punished. Most of the time, in the traffic, we can see Ambulances and fire trucks enter the bus lanes. At first glance, car drivers may find this unfair, but with deeper thinking and deliberation they can understand that by ignoring this law the occurrence of worse events is controlled.
In conclusion, in my view, civil laws should not be circumvented even by governments unless it happens in an emergency and acceptable situation for the creation of public security.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, really, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2528.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 507.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98619329389 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77085287713 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 204.123752495 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483234714004 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 803.7 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 14.0 4.22255489022 332% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4495388661 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.913043478 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0434782609 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47826086957 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167893608341 0.218282227539 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0555106000294 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551995284913 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134786258953 0.128457276422 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0488146293401 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 98.500998004 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.