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The leashes are the words of the law and their ultimate interpretation. Everything follows from those words. Transparency and good faith are ideals that are ra
by task_queue 11y ago
The leashes are the words of the law and their ultimate interpretation. Everything follows from those words.
Transparency and good faith are ideals that are rare in powerful bureaucracies. Expecting those with the most power in the world to act in good faith is a scorpion and frog tale.
- datashovel 11y agoI am only thinking out loud right now, but I'm trying to picture what the US Constitution would look like (or if it would have even been finished) had the founders agonized over all the minutiae they could've consumed themselves with when writing it.