Well, better educated than I am anyway.
So I am reading our Tocqueville text and the section "Influence of American Democracy Upon Electoral Laws" (pg. 202 in my edition, ed. Mayer, Perennial Classics) discusses how the mutability of our laws is the greatest downfall of our government. Earlier this year, I mentioned my frustration with the growing amount of statutes and our government's inability to streamline and maintain efficiency.
Now, Thomas Jefferson wrote on December 20, 1787 in a letter to Madison that "a twelve-month between engrossing a bill and passing it" should be necessary in order to avoid the evil which is "the instability of our laws".
Has there been any legislation to attempt to do something similar to this? Why not?
Would a bill proposing this year-long waiting period be immediately shot down because legislators could not get quick pork for their home states, should this sort of proposal be pushed exactly for this reason?
Thoughts please!
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