I am reminded of another method for limiting legislative abuses:
In the ancient republic of the Locrains "[a] Locrain who proposed any new law stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected the innovator was instantly strangled." Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Forty-fourth Chapter.
This would definitely improve legislation in DC.
ReplyDeleteSteve Ganshert