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by pc86 29 days ago
> Then you will have a lot of Constitution amendments.

You say that like it's a bad thing?

> The burden of ever-changing law landscape will be carried by ordinary people, not by legislators.

The "burden" would also include, for the most part, being able to look up at any given point in time whether something violated the law without referring to hundreds of thousands of pages of other codes, administrative law, and agency rules.

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  > You say that like it's a bad thing?
I am saying that politicians will get around the sunsetting rule, if any, that's first.

Constitution, then, will serve as what regular law does right now, without anything that makes something Constitution. That's second.

I also am strongly suspecting that hundredths of thousands of pages of codes and laws will not get leaner at all. There is no point in ceding regulatory capture, because the capability to capture regulations is the point of governance, as I see it.