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>How do you define “number of laws”

It's not an easy thing to do but that doesn't mean it couldn't be done. Maybe something like defining it as a limit on the total sum amount of text in all laws?

A limit on the amount of new laws that could be passed would make it much easier for citizens to keep up with the proposed changes and oppose any they disagreed with; they couldn't be ddossed by the legislators.



Certain details (procedural and technical specifications) of laws are often relegated to secondary texts. This would just start a game of how to encode the desired legislation so that it still nominally fits the rules (law golfing instead of code golfing). The whole approach is a fool’s errand, IMO, and would just make the legislation even more inscrutable for the layperson.




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