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10 July 2009 10:00 AM
A Tricameral Legislature?
Via The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, I've been apprised of a thought-provoking blog post by Patrick at Popehat:
It's not that all laws are bad. We're not base anarchists. It's that lawmaking no longer resides, if it ever did, with the people. Conversely, the individuals who are responsible, under the Constitution, for passing these laws seem utterly ignorant of the law themselves. The days when even an attorney could be described as "learned in the law" are long gone. Today we have attorneys who specialize entirely in such arcane niches as regulatory permitting for power plants, or nursing home standards litigation, or Medicare fraud defense. And the laws pile up. Perhaps what America needs is an authority whose sole job is to get rid of outdated, ill-conceived, or just plain bad laws.He fleshes out the details here.
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