“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.
National Emergencies are a mechanism used by many countries to increase safety measures in the country when there is a perceptible threat to their national autonomy or sovereignty. They may be initiated due to terrorism, disease, or other social unrest. The given prompt suggests that governments are justified in circumventing civil laws when such a situation is prevalent. In my opinion, I agree with the given claim, albeit to a certain extent; I do not believe this is a black-and-white issue, for there are multiple things to be considered when talking about it. Taking a position on this issue would require us to consider three broad points.
In health-related emergencies where diseases spread like wildfire due to their communicable nature, a nation’s government would be justified in circumventing civil law to ensure that the population is safe. Consider the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, where the virus/pathogen particles were communicable via air, and were transferred between people through tiny droplets that occur in the air. If a large group of people met in an area during this time, when the number of cases was still significant, then it would be a health hazard. Allowing people to exercise their civil law of assembling in groups or gatherings would increase the chances of the disease spreading faster, and this would adversely affect the health of the overall population. Also, allowing people to travel across the country freely would also increase the chances of disease spread. To prevent these situations, many governments, like that of New Zealand, China, and India, issued lockdown and mask mandates to slow the spread of the virus and to ‘flatten’ the curve. In countries like Sweden where such mandates were not issued as a result of large-scale skepticism of the efficacy of these measures, the disease was observed to spread faster, and it caused proportionately high death rates in these countries. To solidify the link between safety and security: An unhealthy population is more ill-equipped against attacks or uprisings caused by external or internal factors, and would exacerbate the suffering of the ill. Hence, in such health-endangering scenarios, governments are justified in circumventing civil law for the sake of safety, and hence security.
In cases of terrorist threats to a nation, governments can circumvent civil law in order to provide the population with further safety measures, and can hence be justified in this way. Consider India’s national emergency in the 1970’s: The country was in a battle stalemate along its borders with its neighbours, viz. China and Pakistan, and the nation faced issues of national sovereignty being harmed at its borders. Although the issue itself is a contentious one, with people later expressing their disapproval of the emergency, it made sure that the country’s instability did not get worse exponentially, and it momentarily stabilized the conditions within the country. Hence, in this case, circumventing civil laws worked in favour of national security, and was thus justified.
However, what if a government were to abuse this power, and issue emergencies that cause unjustified suffering to its people? Consider the recent case of El Salvador: After the 2020 elections, the President issued an emergency due to the extreme mafia and gang situations within the country, that caused a significant number of people to emigrate to other countries, and immeasurable suffering to the people who could not leave. The President then carried out mass-incarceration orders, imprisoning anyone who was even found to be slightly associated with the mafia. There were also rumours and pieces of evidence that suggested that the government was also making deals with such groups to pay them off instead of letting them cause further social unrest. Even if one were to refute these rumours, the incarceration rate is undeniably and categorically very high. It forced a lot of people into high-security facilities, and caused immense pain to their families. Hence, in such cases, a government circumventing civil law to maintain national security is unjustified, since it may be abused quite easily.
Hence, there are no easy answers to taking a stance on the given issue. And thus, I only agree with the given claim to a certain extent. As long as checks are in place to ensure that the government does not abuse the powers it obtains by circumventing civil law, it would be beneficial to ensuring national security of a country.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, may, so, still, then, thus, talking about, as a result, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 108.0 58.6224719101 184% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3811.0 2235.4752809 170% => OK
No of words: 725.0 442.535393258 164% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25655172414 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.18900992827 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0322719219 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 347.0 215.323595506 161% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478620689655 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1198.8 704.065955056 170% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 15.0 1.77640449438 844% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.7412350838 60.3974514979 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.413793103 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.27586206897 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176151899283 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0533827137381 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551768332016 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115562220956 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0361407411919 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 194.0 100.480337079 193% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, may, so, still, then, thus, talking about, as a result, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 108.0 58.6224719101 184% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3811.0 2235.4752809 170% => OK
No of words: 725.0 442.535393258 164% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25655172414 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.18900992827 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0322719219 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 347.0 215.323595506 161% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478620689655 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1198.8 704.065955056 170% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 15.0 1.77640449438 844% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.7412350838 60.3974514979 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.413793103 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.27586206897 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176151899283 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0533827137381 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551768332016 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115562220956 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0361407411919 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 194.0 100.480337079 193% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.