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The more civilised way of doing this is to have an independent commission whose job it is to regularly review the state of the laws on the books and put forward
by dane-pgp 4y ago
The more civilised way of doing this is to have an independent commission whose job it is to regularly review the state of the laws on the books and put forward lists of them to be repealed by the legislature.
This works quite well in the UK, for example, where Statute Law (Repeals) Acts have been passed[0] every few years since 1969, with the most recent[1] repealing the whole of 817 Acts of Parliament, and portions of more than 50 others.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_Law_%28Repeals%29_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_Law_%28Repeals%29_Act
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_Law_%28Repeals%29_Act_2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_Law_%28Repeals%29_Act_...
- m463 4y agoI think that's a good system and it is nice it exists, but I sense that expiring something might be a better way. There's a lot to be said to having people step up to defend something instead of having people attack something bad, or even overlook it out of ignorance. I also remember one thing trump did I thought was interesting was that adding a new regulation required eliminating 2 existing regulations.