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The 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
by alehul 10y ago
The 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.