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If laws can't be easily written and understood, that's a problem with the legal system (and the media explaining said laws and initiatives).

The CA implementation seems terrible, but in general direct democracies end up with better laws, and the populace in such democracies ends up being better than a bunch of self selected politicians (who happen to not be experts anyway). US and UK lawmaking processes are a perfect example of why you need to give citizens more control (but you still want legislative bodies to do the grunt work).

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"but in general direct democracies end up with better laws"

Is there something that indicates that?

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>If laws can't be easily written and understood, that's a problem with the legal system (and the media explaining said laws and initiatives).

Do you write code by chance? Ever introduce a bug or unintended consequence? I bet 10-1 it was logic problem, not a compiler problem.

The hard part of writing laws is in exactly and completely defining your terms. It has nothing to do with the legal system, and more to do with the nature of language itself.

Gödel's 'incompleteness theorems' comes to mind.