>Where legislators are impotent, the admins, commissions, lobbyists, executives, judges happily make their own laws and govern without any accountability.
None of those make law. The unaccountable non-elected entity which does make actual literal law that is enforced, at the end of the day, with arrest fines and jailing is the administrative state, here the DOT. Not passing laws gives the administrative state less to feed on.
What we need is a decent user interface to government and the legislative process. One sufficient to enable the average person to generate an informed opinion on proposed legislation. That seems pretty basic.
Monarchists like Theil never say what happens after the original, "good" Monarch is gone. History tells us things go downhill fast.
It's one of the things that's going to change. The current lack of transparency is extremely damaging to faith in government.
Each part of a the law should require an actual author(s) the same way a patent requires an actual inventor, irrespective of who it was ultimately assigned to.
Also, aggregate omnibus laws like this one have to be expressly forbidden, for just the reasons you cited.
That's the absolute minimum level of reform necessary.
It violates the entire premise that laws are legitimate if they represent the consent of the governed. People don't even know this exists, but we're already being told the administrative state in the form of the DOT will hash out the details.
I can't be the only one to see a problem with this.
None of those make law. The unaccountable non-elected entity which does make actual literal law that is enforced, at the end of the day, with arrest fines and jailing is the administrative state, here the DOT. Not passing laws gives the administrative state less to feed on.
What we need is a decent user interface to government and the legislative process. One sufficient to enable the average person to generate an informed opinion on proposed legislation. That seems pretty basic.
Monarchists like Theil never say what happens after the original, "good" Monarch is gone. History tells us things go downhill fast.