[dartos]

The first past the post system is encoding a two party system into law. If it makes to hard enough for a third party to take hold, there might as well not be one.

Not everything is spelled in ink.

[bigstrat2003]

That's not "encoded into the law". The outcomes of the law are not the same as the law itself.

[dartos]

Practically speaking, they are.

The effect of a law is at least as important as the literal words on the page.