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Okay fine, let me rephrase. It is not something meant to be reduced.
by umanwizard 7y ago
Okay fine, let me rephrase. It is not something meant to be reduced.
- breck 7y agoThanks for the rephrasing. I should rephrase as well. The language I am proposing offers much stronger control over ambiguity. Take the 8th amendment: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." What is an "excessive fine" mean? In the language I am proposing it could be defined as is, or in something like: ... cellType dollarAmount number cellType fine dollarAmount cellType adjustedGrossIncome dollarAmount cellType universalExcessiveFineThreshold description As a percentage of adjustedGrossIncome constant .1 nodeType isExcessiveFine cells adjustedGrossIncome fine trueIf fine / adjustedGrossIncome > universalExcessiveFineThreshold ... So you have more control over ambiguity.
- umanwizard 7y agoBut that’s not ambiguity at all — “giving judges leeway according to parameters defined in advance by legislators” is not the same thing as “statutes being ambiguous”.