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To: CharlesWayneCT
The problem is no bill should be longer than 10 pages.

Otherwise, so much crap is stuffed into it, that no one reads it.........they vote for concepts now, that is the problem.

21 posted on 04/30/2010 6:43:32 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for If the Conservatives had.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Kakaze

The problem is that no bill is a law unto itself, because we’ve had 200+ years of passing laws, many of which changed in part other laws. So most laws these days are written to change sections of other laws, rather than be standalone.

It takes lots of pages to describe how you are changing other laws in little bits and pieces, and makes it impossible to really understand what is being done.

So you get lines that says “on page X of law Y (ammended by resolution Z), strike the term ‘as necessary’ in paragraph 1 item ‘a’ and replace with ‘as determined by’”

I’ve tried to amend resolutions in my local HOA, and decided it was just easier to re-write them every time. But apparently for real legaleze it’s better not to re-write because it means everybody has to re-learn everything, especially if you mess up the copying.


23 posted on 04/30/2010 7:00:19 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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