Are there examples of passing a law that says you can't pass any laws about something for ten years where that worked?
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Are there examples of passing a law that says you can't pass any laws about something for ten years where that worked? Like. Can you even do that?
I'm not talking about Constitutions, which are generally what we call the documents that are the "laws about how the laws may work" but rather just saying "you can't make a law about X" (literally possibly) and that being at all binding.
I think one could just pass a law anyway and then argue in court. Seems weak.
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Are there examples of passing a law that says you can't pass any laws about something for ten years where that worked? Like. Can you even do that?
I'm not talking about Constitutions, which are generally what we call the documents that are the "laws about how the laws may work" but rather just saying "you can't make a law about X" (literally possibly) and that being at all binding.
I think one could just pass a law anyway and then argue in court. Seems weak.
IIUC the way painting the legislation into such a corner has been tried in some places, and accomplished in fewer of them, by passing a law that makes it severely illegal (like, criminal) to defend the position one wants to rule out, so that even legislators would be criminals before they could pass an opposing law
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IIUC the way painting the legislation into such a corner has been tried in some places, and accomplished in fewer of them, by passing a law that makes it severely illegal (like, criminal) to defend the position one wants to rule out, so that even legislators would be criminals before they could pass an opposing law
This is like saying "no backs" when playing cooties.
