Have you ever been eating dinner with your family and the phone rings: you go to answer it only to find out it was a telemarketer? 63,000 complaints about this exact problem have been registered against telemarketers nationwide. Public, Congress, the President, and the courts are all major roles of American Polity that play significant roles in the "do-not-call registry". .
Courts play a major role in the "do-not-call registry": due to the fact this issue is very controversial. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) argues they are entitled to restrict commercial calls because they cause problems among people. The U.S. Department of Justice attorney argued: "it's the public's fundamental right to be left alone." On the other hand, Telemarketers fought back to argue the do-not-call registry restricts free speech, and the government gets to decided which speech is restricted, as well as barring down on basic fairness. Moreover, on September 25, U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham of Denver ruled that: "the do-not-call list violates the First Amendment because it blocks commercial telemarketing calls but not calls from charities." Keisler fought that with evidence that eighty to ninety-nine percent of the total number of complaints dealt with commercial pitches as opposed to solicitations for charitable donations. The Courts play a major role seeing as they are the ones to deal with the continuous arguments back and fourth regarding the issue. .
Congress, as well as the President, plays a key role, in the fact that they are ones to pass and veto bills. Congress and the President settled this legal glitch. When the FTC argued they were entitled to restrict commercial calls because they were causing problems among many people, the House and Senate agreed. Congress amended the federal law, stating the FTC had the authority to make a do-not-call list. On September 29, President George Bush signed that Bill from senate.
