-=> Quoting Robert Craft to Walter Luffman <=-
 WL> laws expire.  No need to pass new legislation gutting a
 WL> valuable law that the majority-party doesn't like -- just do
 WL> nothing (except stay in power, that is) and wait for it to
 WL> wink out of existence!
 RC> Perhaps, but doing so with a number of popular laws would
 RC> quickly assure minority status to that majority.
Oh, the popular laws would always be renewed.  I may not
have a high opinion of most politicians, but even the
dimmest-witted of them know what it takes to get re-elected.
 
 WL> both houses can be infuriatingly slow now; just imagine the
 WL> glacial pace if lawmakers had to actually read and understand
 WL> what they're voting on!
 RC> If they *had* to read those bills, isn't it likely those
 RC> bills would quickly become more succinct and readable?
More likely, they'd find someway around whatever legal
impediments were put in place, and either just ignore all
that reading material or tell some staffer to prepare a
summary.  (Wonder how many incumbents insist on "summary
briefings" because they can't read even the simple text of
a written summary?)
 RC> And how about flowcharting the effects of legislation and
 RC> making the flow chart part of the legislation? Too much
 RC> clarity there, hmmm?
Makes too much sense to ever happen -- unless they can
find a way to do it without being required to prove that
the charts are accurate.
 
 RC> 1) any law without citation of the Section and paragraph of
 RC> the Constitution authorising the statute is void and
 
 WL> Yes!!
 RC> There *was* a bill to that effect which died in committee.
 
I'm surprised it was ever submitted, but not that it died.
 WL> already, I can hear the cries of "Unfair!" from high school
 WL> (in some cases, even college) graduates who find that they
 WL> still can't read the laws because they never actually
 WL> learned to read at high-school level.
 RC> And reading is such a *basic* skill. One wonders about
 RC> their mastery of all those other skills dependent upon
 RC> reading skills. 
Well, we already know they're hazy when it comes to numbers,
especially when those numbers are preceded by dollar signs.
 
 RC> It was at age seven, while spending the summer in a cast,
 RC> that I discovered the library shelves with the books with
 RC> the rocket and atom on the spine - many by Heinlein. I've
 RC> been an addict ever since.
Heinlein at age seven?  I'm impressed!  I was still on
Hardy Boys and Tom Swift at that age (with a big dollop of
comics), discovered real science fiction when I joined the
Cub Scouts at age eight and started a subscription to Boys
Life, but don't think I saw my first Heinlein until I was
ten or so.  Interestingly, I "back-slid" into Doc Savage,
the Lensman series and other pulps several years _after_
that.
Walter, Forked Deer River Ilks
wluffman@usit.net
... "Apes were invented because politicians were needed." - Asimov
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