[Cialug] Telecom Immunity

[David Bierce]

Shorter bills could be a side effect of requiring all members voting  
on the bill must be present for an unabridged reading of the bill,  
before being eligible to vote.

On Jul 10, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:

> On Thursday July 10 2008 16:23, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>> The first change is that all laws automatically expire some period
>>> of time after they are passed, unless they are renewed.
>>
>> I would add a requirement that the whole body of law be memorizable  
>> by
>> a "reasonable and average person" so it shouldn't be any longer than
>> about 10-20 pages.
>
> I think automatic sunset would tend to keep the totality of law a lot
> smaller than it is now. 10-20 pages sounds a bit *too* small to me,  
> but
> i think we'd agree that the law should be small enough (and written
> simply enough) that an adult of average intelligence and education
> should be able to read and understand the entirety of it within a
> reasonably short period of time. We might disagree in that i'd
> say "reasonably short" should be somewhere in the range 100-500
> hours--basically a part-time hobby for a year. I'm not sure how to
> specify this limitation in more objective terms that wouldn't rely on
> some hypothetical "average person" though.
>
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