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> a non-directly elected entity The EU Parliament is composed of 705 members (MEPs). It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after
by peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> a non-directly elected entity
The EU Parliament is composed of 705 members (MEPs). It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of 375 million eligible voters
p.s. even the US president is a non-directly elected entity
- UncleEntity 4y agoThe US president doesn’t write laws though. Ignoring executive orders, of course. The people who do write the laws are directly elected at all levels of government.
- vageli 4y agoPedantically, in the US, laws are also "written" by court precedent. Consider that prohibition was performed via a constitutional amendment yet drugs are criminalized today without amendment by the controlled substances act, itself allowed to exist due to the expansion of the commerce clause (see Gonzales v. Raich 2005). [0] While judges in some places are directly elected, at the federal level they are not. Beyond that, enforcement of laws is at the prerogative of the executive. If the laws written by directly elected officials are ignored, that is making law as well in some sense. For instance, marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, but the laws are unenforced and states are legalizing it themselves (contravening federal law). [0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZS.html https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZS.html