Learning by Doing
Strayer University
PAD 525

Abstract
According to Szypszak (2012) “the law should not be encrypted, nor require a lawyer to decipher. Legal research is not locating a definitive answer to a simple question; productive research is dependent upon “good sense” that a formal rule might exist” (pg. 307). Denoted in Szypszak (2012) an approach many researchers utilize to interpret the language of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. legal system in order to explain the principles and process of constitutional, regulatory, and administrative laws at the federal and state levels is using the “case” approach. The methodology of research for this paper is using technology and information resources for researching cases, laws, and other legal communications (Szypszak, 2012).

Learning by Doing 1. Your state’s statute that defines what is considered to be a public record that must be made available to the public upon request.

The Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), located § 2.2-3700 et. seq. of the Code of Virginia, guarantees citizens of the Commonwealth and representatives of the media access to public records held by public bodies, public officials, and public employees. The guiding principle of FOIA states that the objective of FOIA is to encourage attentiveness by all persons of governmental activities. In broadening this strategy, FOIA requires that the law be interpreted liberally, in favor of access, and that any exemption allowing public records to be withheld must be interpreted narrowly ("The Virginia freedom," 2011).

2. The pre-World War I opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court holding, on re-argument, that a federal income tax was unconstitutional.

As for the constitutional arguments in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company (1895), that asserted the federal income tax was a direct tax, the law's tax on