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Has that ever been tried in practice?

• thaumasiotes 9y ago
  Under Icelandic Viking law, every year one man had to recite the law. (I believe this was given one day.) Anything he forgot to include was no longer the law. Different system, but some thematic similarities.
• derekp7 9y ago
  Wasn't that one of Trump's promises, that for every new regulation, two old ones had to go?
• bzbarsky 9y ago
  Not sure about with laws, but similar things have been tried with regulations. See http://redtapereduction.com/BC_Reg_Reform_Model.aspx http://redtapereduction.com/BC_Reg_Reform_Model.aspx but in brief: * Around 2001, voters in British Columbia elected a government with a specific campaign promise to reduce "regulation" by 1/3. * Initially this was accomplished by among other things setting a rule that for every new regulation introduced two existing ones had to be eliminated. * Then the status quo was maintained by mandating a 1-for-1 rule (each new regulation requires elimination of a existing one). * In 2015, the government of Canada introduced its own 1-for-1 rule. There are obviously complications around what constitutes "one regulation", which neither my summary nor the linked article completely capture.
• kemiller 9y ago
  You could argue that the Supreme Court has the ability to strike laws down but not create them, though in a very limited way.