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The fact that you can technically sue is nice, I guess, but most people do not have the time or resources (or the fortune of EFF’s attention) to do that. And o
by baddox 9y ago
The fact that you can technically sue is nice, I guess, but most people do not have the time or resources (or the fortune of EFF’s attention) to do that.
And of course the government can and does give itself authority. All authority of the United States government even at the most fundamental and historic level comes from, well, itself. The very foundation of the government comes from the government deciding what counts as “consent of the governed,” obtaining that level of consent, then going forward with all the authority it decided to grant itself.
- mulmen 9y agoThat is why we have the separation of powers. The people writing law do not have the ability to interpret or enforce it and they can be replaced by the people they represent.
- baddox 9y agoUnfortunately Montesquieu wasn’t an economist or a game theorist, so he apparently didn’t realize the now obvious flaw in the idea of separation of powers, which is that it is in the best interest of all branches of government to collude most of the time.