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US laws and constitutions were created to stop tyranny by making it very difficult to change anything. The result is most laws need a supermajority to pass. Th
by Gunax 3y ago
US laws and constitutions were created to stop tyranny by making it very difficult to change anything. The result is most laws need a supermajority to pass.
That's probably good at stopping bad laws, but it really stops all laws.
IMO a sideeffect of this is that because courts create law by simple majority, they are often the only body capable of changing anything. As a result, we have politicized courts deciding things that should really just be legislated.
If there was one thing I could change about American law it would be to make it easier to change the law, including constitutional amendments.