Loyalty of the law-making
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. Garet Garrett
Law Making
Every time women make
Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control. Erica Jong
What I really think
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, … Read more
… any men who
… any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves. Catharine Beecher
When the [law making]
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty. Baron de Montesquieu
If my wife made
If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I’d be sleeping on the sofa. Alton Brown
In the United States,
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation’s opinion or trample its wishes under foot. … Read more
It will be of
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if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that … Read more