The Lend-Lease Act: Rhetoric

    The Lend-Lease Act: Rhetoric

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      In case you didn't notice, this text is a law, widely known as the most boring kind of thing you could ever read. All the emotional appeals and arguments of authority involved in the debate on the floors of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in the committee rooms, and in the media don't explicitly show up in the text of a law, though they certainly sculpt its logic and which provisions make it through the process and which are cut out.

      But when you read a finished law, you're seeing the final product of debate, discussion, and compromise, in supremely "logical" form. Laws have to be very specific, often to the point of absurdity. The Lend-Lease Act was actually pretty short n' sweet, though if this is your first legalese rodeo, maybe that's not much comfort.