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One of the fundamental principles of democracy is that citizens have the right to change their minds. Whatever the previous congress did, it should not bind the
by jltsiren 4y ago
One of the fundamental principles of democracy is that citizens have the right to change their minds. Whatever the previous congress did, it should not bind the hands of the next congress after the elections. If something failed to pass, it is possible that the citizens took that into account when they voted, and the new congress is willing to pass the same bill.
- Dylan16807 4y agoSo, every six years considering this is the senate? That wouldn't be nearly as obnoxious as the current pace on this bill.
- sokoloff 4y agoThe Senate makeup changes every 2 years, even though an individual Senator’s term is 6.
- amelius 4y agoPerhaps we should have elections every week then. Because the public can also change their mind.
- herbst 4y agoThat's basically what we do in Switzerland. Yet such bills don't just pop up again completely unmodified.
- BiteCode_dev 4y agoAlso, any bill should be required to fit on a A4 paper. There is no democratic process possible with bills taking hundreds or thousands of pages. One more proof that we are living in (very free) oligarchic systems that think themself to be democracies.