The phrase "reasonable laws" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to laws that are fair, logical, and practical. Example: "The government must ensure that all citizens are governed by reasonable laws that protect their rights and promote social justice."
Democracy yields reasonable laws protecting public safety -- like the one requiring registration of assault weapons.
"In just the last couple months, he's been effective on two big fronts: passing Sandy aid and fighting for reasonable laws on gun safety," he said.
Nothing (or so it seems) like our macroscopic world -- or even the microscopic world of cells or bacteria or dust particles -- where Newton's much more reasonable laws keep things sensibly ordered.
His other two commandments are: enact reasonable laws that limit the potential damage of a new technology (at least as further evidence is forthcoming), and prioritize technologies that have utility, but also provide fresh scientific insights.
The problem comes in when the tools at their disposal are really good at killing others without much work on the part of the killer, which is why lots of folks would like to see the United States institute some reasonable laws regulating gun ownership.
The Senate approved the bill, but only after a callow roster, including a significant number of Democrats, caved in to the lobby and attached an amendment that would strike down the city's reasonable laws for gun registration and trigger locks and its ban on assault weapons and sniper rifles.
It is a reasonable law, far from the ban that some anti-gun-control advocates depict.
Parts of the existing Patriot Act are reasonable law enforcement measures, but other sections should be repealed.
The second mistake that the appeals court made — one that many supporters of gun rights may concede — was its unduly narrow view of what constitutes a "reasonable" law.
Although Hartman's facts involved only a retaliatory prosecution, reasonable law enforcement officers could have questioned whether its rule also applied to arrests.
What is wrong is when a reasonable law is used for an improper purpose, like maintaining segregation or keeping secret a mass collection of American telephone records that appears to violate the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches.
