That ultimately doesn’t matter in modern lawmaking. Modern laws are far too complex for lawmakers to draft themselves. They largely have to rely on teams of lawyers to draft their policy goals into law. You think those geriatric Senators are drafting those thousand page bills themselves? They have teams of people behind them. They do this even though most Congress members come from a legal background. Modern society and its regulatory framework is just so complex, that you can’t just have individual law makers directly authoring all but the simplest most ceremonial bills. They get draft legislation from their staff, consulting groups, trade organizations, etc.
It’s the same thing here. You have teams of lawyers on staff to serve the Senate. Or individual Senators would get a budget to hire a team of lawyers to serve their needs. The Senate, or individual law makers, will consult with them and ask them to draft up a law to to do X, just like you would go to an attorney to ask them to draft up a will.
I really don’t see why the average person can’t be a lawmaker. If it’s all done by teams of people, and the person at the top is just pointing the team where to go, why can’t the average person do that?
We have a population that reads at a fifth grade level.
This will be a problem in any form of democracy.
Any system which gives the people any power will run into problems if the majority of the population is very stupid.
I think the advantage of my system is that the people elected may be stupid, yes, but at least most of them won’t be malicious. And, hopefully, improving the education system would be something they have interest in working on, which could help make the population less stupid over time.
I will only vote for this constitutional if it explicitly enshrines the write to the private ownership of alligators in any quantity, with exceptions for explicit standards of cruelty to alligators, which also must be written into the constitution explicitly. There should also be some language that states a dozen different ways that “alligator” isn’t some metaphor for government power, and that we’re talking about the literal animal here.
Yeah … not likely, lol. It’s already way too long, what with me trying to exclude every loophole and account for every edge case, so I’m trying to keep it more general and let the Senate pass their own laws when it comes to very specific things that aren’t absolutely essential for human rights and/or the running of a fair and equitable government.
Best of luck, though. I’ll be rooting for you to get selected for the Senate, where you can spend your entire 10-year term exclusively fighting for alligator ownership rights.
You lost me at electing senators by lottery. We have a population that reads at a fifth grade level.
That ultimately doesn’t matter in modern lawmaking. Modern laws are far too complex for lawmakers to draft themselves. They largely have to rely on teams of lawyers to draft their policy goals into law. You think those geriatric Senators are drafting those thousand page bills themselves? They have teams of people behind them. They do this even though most Congress members come from a legal background. Modern society and its regulatory framework is just so complex, that you can’t just have individual law makers directly authoring all but the simplest most ceremonial bills. They get draft legislation from their staff, consulting groups, trade organizations, etc.
It’s the same thing here. You have teams of lawyers on staff to serve the Senate. Or individual Senators would get a budget to hire a team of lawyers to serve their needs. The Senate, or individual law makers, will consult with them and ask them to draft up a law to to do X, just like you would go to an attorney to ask them to draft up a will.
I really don’t see why the average person can’t be a lawmaker. If it’s all done by teams of people, and the person at the top is just pointing the team where to go, why can’t the average person do that?
This will be a problem in any form of democracy.
Any system which gives the people any power will run into problems if the majority of the population is very stupid.
I think the advantage of my system is that the people elected may be stupid, yes, but at least most of them won’t be malicious. And, hopefully, improving the education system would be something they have interest in working on, which could help make the population less stupid over time.
What are the limits on the powers of this Senate?
Well, that would be up to the constitution and the bill of rights … which I’m not quite done drafting yet.
I will only vote for this constitutional if it explicitly enshrines the write to the private ownership of alligators in any quantity, with exceptions for explicit standards of cruelty to alligators, which also must be written into the constitution explicitly. There should also be some language that states a dozen different ways that “alligator” isn’t some metaphor for government power, and that we’re talking about the literal animal here.
Yeah … not likely, lol. It’s already way too long, what with me trying to exclude every loophole and account for every edge case, so I’m trying to keep it more general and let the Senate pass their own laws when it comes to very specific things that aren’t absolutely essential for human rights and/or the running of a fair and equitable government.
Best of luck, though. I’ll be rooting for you to get selected for the Senate, where you can spend your entire 10-year term exclusively fighting for alligator ownership rights.
I mean, there’s ways to introduce the proper amount of crazy in fewer words. For example, such as a constitutional ban on the color yellow.