-=> Quoting Robert Craft to Mike Angwin <=-
 RC> Better yet, how about passing legislation nullifying all
 RC> laws in 2005 or 20 years from date of passage, whichever is
 RC> later?
This could backfire.  I can think of several instances when
a congressional majority would love to let "inconvenient"
laws expire.  No need to pass new legislation gutting a
valuable law that the majority-party doesn't like -- just do
nothing (except stay in power, that is) and wait for it to
wink out of existence!
 RC> Then the Congress could then spend all it's time reviewing
 RC> all Federal statutes and revising those to be retained IAW
 RC> two points:
I like it, but Congress could never handle the load since that
would require actually reading all those laws.  Heaven knows,
both houses can be infuriatingly slow now; just imagine the
glacial pace if lawmakers had to actually read and understand
what they're voting on!
 RC> 1) any law without citation of the Section and paragraph of
 RC> the Constitution authorising the statute is void and
Yes!!
 RC> 2) any law whose complexity exceeds high school reading
 RC> level is void . 
already, I can hear the cries of "Unfair!" from high school
(in some cases, even college) graduates who find that they
still can't read the laws because they never actually
learned to read at high-school level.  (_I_ read at a
high-school level while still in elementary school -- but
that was back when teachers and parents still cared if
kids leaerned anything.  Besides, I have always enjoyed
reading, unlike today's wait-for-the-home-video generation.)
Walter, Forked Deer River Ilks
wluffman@usit.net
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