Landscapes, comprising assemblages of artifacts and places, are political statements' They represent

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Landscapes, comprising assemblages of artifacts
and places, are political statements. They
represent the outcome of rational decisions of
individuals, corporations, and governments
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Intelligence is not the ability to
store information but the ability to find it

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What is the public policy context for dairy
farmers and milk producers?

• Statutory Law regarding milk production,
  marketing, and consumption
• Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983
• Dairy Market Enhancement Act of 2000
• Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983
• Administrative Law regarding milk
• Regulations of the US Department of Agriculture
• Case Law regarding milk 
• Hillside Dairy Inc. et al v William J Lyons Jr.,
  Secretary California Department of Food and
  Agriculture et al 123 S. Ct. 2142 (June 2003)
• Milk Producers Land OLakes
• Dairy Policy Issues

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A truism whether we like it or not

• "Every man, when he enters into a society gives
  up part of his natural liberty, as the price of
  so valuable a purchase obliges himself to
  conform to those laws which the community has
  thought proper to establish"
• (William Blackstone. Commentaries of the Law of
  England. A Facsimile of the First Edition of
  1765-1769 (1979) vol. 1 p. 121)
• The more individuals occupy a particular space
  the less personal freedoms each individual can
  enjoy

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• The modern world is ambiguous and contradictory
• Its evolution replete with contradictions
• "The process of muddling through is a gutsy,
  down-to-earth process full of inefficiencies and
  inconsistencies. It takes an inordinate amount of
  time to take modest incremental steps forward and
  significant bold steps are clearly not in the
  cards . It keeps this country pretty close to
  the middle of the road, while permitting slow
  faltering adjustments to change"
• (Warren Johnson Muddling Toward Frugality 1978
  p.151)

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Basic Thoughts About Landscapes

• The visible evidence of human activities
• Carried out under the rule of law

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Basic Thoughts About Landscapes

• Reflect
• Myriad decisions made by individuals,
  organizations and governments
• What goods to produce how to produce
• What services to provide how
• Relationships between individuals, organizations,
  and governments that provide expectations and
  impose obligations
• Framed in the continuous often acrimonious debate
  about the role and responsibilities of
  governments
• All landscapes reflect a past and a present
• All landscapes provide a basis for a future

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• To understand human activities, and thus truly
  appreciate landscapes and places, we must
  understand how governments reach consensus about
  their role and responsibilities and so organize
  behavior and space

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A Basic Diagram
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Characteristics of Law the structure of
published legal materials

• Constant change
• federal and state legislatures enact
  approximately 15,000 statutes/year
• unknown number of local government ordinances
• unknown number of rules - federal, states, local
  governments
• federal and state courts issue approximately
  55,000 opinions/year
• estimated 3 million opinions still "good law"

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Characteristics of Law the structure of
published legal materials

• Stability v dynamism
• desire to maintain certainty and stability -
  means by which society is ordered and the rights,
  duties and obligations of members defined
• need for flexibility in regulating a broad
  spectrum of human activities

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Characteristics of Law the structure of
published legal materials

• Multiplicity of sources
• statutory law (legislation, statute, act) enacted
  by the legislature
• administrative law (regulation, rule) promulgated
  by the executive agencies
• case law (opinion, decision, ruling) issued by a
  court (judge)
• federal, state, and local governments

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Characteristics of Legal Materials

• Chronological publications
• legislatures enacts statutes on variety of
  subjects in a legislative session
• regulatory agencies promulgate rules on a variety
  of subjects
• courts consider cases involving a variety of
  subjects
• Subject access - finding aids
• Official and unofficial publications
• official - published by the government authors of
  the material
• unofficial - published by a commercial publisher

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What is the size of the United States?
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Congressional Quarterly Inc.

• Congress and the Nation
• vol. 1. 1945-1964
• vol. 2. 1965-1968
• vol. 3. 1969-1972
• vol. 4. 1973-1976
• vol. 5. 1977-1980
• vol. 6. 1981-1984
• vol. 7. 1985-1988
• vol. 8. 1989-1992
• vol. 9. 1993-1996
• vol. 10.1997-2000
• vol. 11. 2001-2004

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