Jame Madison - Law
James Madison, a Founding Father of the United States, probably thought they had a lot of laws when the English Colonies declared independence from England. I'm sure he would roll over in his grave, if he could, knowing that we have tens of thousands of pages of various laws regulating all forms of political, commercial, religious, and social interactions & activities.
He wrote with great clarity:
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow."
Is it like the 1,000+ page 'Stimulus Bill' that was passed in only a few days?
I'm a fast reader, but not one thousand pages of legal mumbo-jumbo in less than three days.
He wrote with great clarity:
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow."
Is it like the 1,000+ page 'Stimulus Bill' that was passed in only a few days?
I'm a fast reader, but not one thousand pages of legal mumbo-jumbo in less than three days.
How is it possible that our elected representatives actually reviewed in any detail this incredibly complex compilation of laws earlier this spring?
And thought about the implications, BEFORE they voted on it?
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