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Originally Posted by fifthofnovember
If we had a constitutional amendment that would sunset ALL laws every 5 years, we could stop the insanity. Instead of laws from here to Hell, only important laws would be re-passed every 5 years. In this way people might actually be able to know what the law is. I mean, isn't it a load of crap to be told "ignorance of the law is no excuse" when there are more laws passed every year than you could read if that was ALL you did, on top of all the existing laws? This also would reduce selective enforcement. It would solve prison overcrowding, as well as end the shame of having so many good people labeled criminals in the "land of the free". The campfire that was our government has become a forest fire.
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It’s an interesting idea; that would never pass but none the less a good Idea! The problem would be the overlapping review that would come about during the regular routine of passing laws. The amount never gets smaller and the re-introduction of reviews of past laws would be too much of a burden on the Legislature. The one thing in my opinion that would remove the most underhanded and wasteful procedures is to make it illegal to place items in Bills in the middle of the night and signing statements.
If the current status quo for Presidential powers were in existence for a long time, we wouldn’t recognize our country right now and Nixon would have never resigned; he would have simply made the story go away and kept going business as usual