Journal Wardish's Journal: Laws and Legislators 1
Some rules I believe would be useful:
1. Lawyers should not make laws, it's a conflict of interest as lawyers don't make money arguing simple easily understood laws.
2. Legislators should never (not be allowed to) vote on a law he/she hasn't fully read.
3. All laws should have an expiration date, if it's still useful then it's worth going through the full process to reinstate it.
Last but not least. The statement "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" was and is only useful for a set of laws it's reasonable to expect the average (AVERAGE CITIZEN not lawyer) citizen to know and understand. I don't believe our current existing legislation is even in the same universe with that concept.
Ward
Hear hear!, but not entirely new concepts... (Score:2)
I muttered something about discarding old laws to a friend once, who told me that there are biblical references to throwing all laws out and restarting every 20 years (or some duration about like that... I forget).
Having recently returned from DC, I also was dismayed at the sheer size of the bureaucracy there. A few square miles of 8-story, huge monolithic buildings is absurd. Am not sure what the counter-rule should be, but I do think that anything that helps in dismantling the DC bureaucra