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.
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This is like saying "no backs" when playing cooties.
I lack the cultural references to understand your post, alas.
I suppose it's not about this game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Cootie
some further web searches brought me allusions to child "play" such as taking imaginary germs from some undesirable, placing them on someone else to make them undesirable, and saying "no backs" so that the person couldn't pass them to back you. I don't see much of a game in there, and I don't correlate that with my post you've responded to, so I'm not sure that's what you're talking about
I've seen attempts to use such legal strategies to try to block the return of fascism to Germany, but also to block discussion about legalization of pot elsewhere. it's a tool that can be put to decent but also to poor uses.
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I lack the cultural references to understand your post, alas.
I suppose it's not about this game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Cootie
some further web searches brought me allusions to child "play" such as taking imaginary germs from some undesirable, placing them on someone else to make them undesirable, and saying "no backs" so that the person couldn't pass them to back you. I don't see much of a game in there, and I don't correlate that with my post you've responded to, so I'm not sure that's what you're talking about
I've seen attempts to use such legal strategies to try to block the return of fascism to Germany, but also to block discussion about legalization of pot elsewhere. it's a tool that can be put to decent but also to poor uses.@lxo “some further web searches brought me allusions to child "play" such as taking imaginary germs from some undesirable, placing them on someone else to make them undesirable, and saying "no backs" so that the person couldn't pass them to back you.” this is what I was referencing. And kids would also say “no backs” when playing tag. Sorry for the confusion!
