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Are icelandic parliamentary bills typically that short?

• dbalatero 13y ago
  Maybe this one is just short because of how specific a request it is. What more could you say about it?
  • logn 13y ago
    In the US, if it were sure to pass, there would be many amendments for unrelated things and then it would be 600 pages long and we'd deal with the repercussions of unseen gotchas for the next 50 years.
    • smsm42 13y ago
      600 pages? That's like a note scribbled on a napkin. Obamacare was 2400+ pages as a bill, though contracted to mere 906 pages as a law. Current immigration bill is about 1200 pages. And Obamacare is not unique at its verbosity, there are a number of bills that are almost as long as it is: http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1375-For-Bills-in-Congress-How-Long-is-Long- http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1375-For-Bills-in-...
  • astrodust 13y ago
    A lot of American bills start with at least a dozen "BE IT RESOLVED" clauses that give some background, justification, or just anecdotal stories. It's like you can't declare anything without four pages of legalese.
    • weland 13y ago
      Iceland does have about 800 additional years of parliamentary experience, they probably managed to get it right eventually :-).
• mjn 13y ago
  Citizenship ones seem to be. Here is the Bobby Fischer citizenship law: http://www.althingi.is/altext/stjt/2005.016.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/stjt/2005.016.html
• dalke 13y ago
  Change the URL from http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0078.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0078.html to http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0076.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0076.html , http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0075.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0075.html, http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0073.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0073.html, http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0025.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0025.html , and so on, then judge for yourself. Most of the ones I saw were short. However, take that last one as an example. It's a committee report, saying "The majority suggests that the bill will be passed unchanged." Here's a longer one: http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0015.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0015.html . "Bill amending Act no. 74/2012 on fishing fees." Next question - how long are they in other governments? For example, the recent US "Freedom to Fish" [in the 'waters downstream of a dam'] Act is only two pages.
  • wicker 13y ago
    All of those appear to be in Icelandic. Is there any significance of the Snowden bill in particular being in English? EDIT: Oh right, just saw that the link's through Google Translate. My bad.
  • arnarbi 13y ago
    All of you links but the last one are to committee comments on bills, not the bills themselves. Here are some bills discussed in the past days: http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0067.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0067.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0046.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0046.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0040.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0040.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0020.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0020.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0007.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0007.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0006.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0006.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0005.html http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0005.html