Prescience

The prescience of the Founders never cease to amaze me. I don't think a year is necessary, nor would I agree that changes cannot be made, but one would freaking think an adequate time be given so that proposed new laws could be read and then an analysis done to compare intended outcomes with the likelihood of meeting those goals. Also, this would give time to look at unintended consequences of the Bill's passage. I'd also like to see for every law or regulation passed, an obsolete or ineffective law or regulation must be identified and simultaneous with passage of the new, the old overturned and removed.

"The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority." –Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

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