(7) Snow Line

If you're a law school graduate, then this text is a piece of cake. A cakewalk. (Although, if you think about it, it'd be pretty hard to walk on cake.)

But chances are you're not a law grad and don't spend your downtime perusing statutory compendiums and whatnot, so this text is tricky to actually read without slipping into a daydream about FDR having mind control powers like Dr. Xavier from X-Men and using it on Stalin…for instance.

Turns out Congress likes to make sure its laws are super specific so they know exactly what they're signing off on. And they've made a special jargon for that very purpose, commonly known as legalese.

The exact definition of each word in the text isn't as important as the general effects and consequences the Act had in the real world. So you might be able to get away with not understanding every last subsection (although we'll certainly help you do that in this guide).

But if you sit with the text for a little bit, take your time, maybe take a snack break halfway through (our favorite strategy), you can piece it together and gain some insight into the logic at work in the U.S. Congress in 1941.