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The constitution / bill of rights is one fairly successful example of that.
by darawk 10y ago
The constitution / bill of rights is one fairly successful example of that.
- alehul 10y agoThe purpose of that is to ensure that certain fundamental rights of citizens are protected, though, whereas this is the banning of future similar legislation in a way that I only see as being favorable to companies, not citizens.
- darawk 10y agoYa, but then you're just disagreeing with the content of the decision (which is fine, and I agree with you) and not its structure (regulation that precludes future regulation).
- maxerickson 10y agoCongress can't ban future legislation. The bill bans FCC rulemaking. Future legislation could give the power back to the FCC. A couple people mentioned the Constitution. It can be modified. The modifications can be taken out (see Prohibition in the US).
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Congress can't ban future legislation It regularly does, but such bans have no force beyond that of tradition.
- maxerickson 10y agoWhich is also true of the Constitution and law and so on.
- dragonwriter 10y agoWell, yes but on a different level; Congressional laws that purport to restrain future legislation have no authority even in legal theory. It's true that all law is a fiction that only has authority to the extent that people choose to treat it as if it had authority, though, you are correct.