Require laws to be renewed every x years (to be decided). Same for the tax code and maybe sentencing guidelines.
Create a core set of permanent laws like no murder, rape, theft etc. But the rest have to be renewed to stay legal.
(Stolen from Elon of course…)
There is some uses for this, such as scrutinising and making amendments to make it better, but after seeing the cheek of what the “Democrats” did in America whilst they sneaked items through that had secret funding sent to a random quangos of the US Gov.
Core set of base laws is a yes, we should ideally look at our Bill of Rights, but also, we don’t quite have a written constitution, but an unwritten general common sense, which is also being abused by labour.
Give us our modern day Magna Carta.
As a monarchist I would say that one way around this would be to hand large amounts of responsibilities and scope to the monarch.
These would be the more “untouchable core permanent laws”.
Everything else through parliament.
I would say that Spartans apparently had a system of accountability for civil servants where after they had finished their period they were scrutinised for their decisions that were made. And punishments were harsh if they were considered to be corrupt or even bad decisions.
This could incentivise change purely for the sake of change with no regard for if the change is positive.
From just off the top of my head, I can’t think of a law from before the last few decades that should be repealed.
I may sound thick here but i have no idea how many laws we have in this country. Does anyone have a good sense of it?
Lets see if we can quantify the problem.
I think the onus should be placed on legislators to justify their excessive law-making. There is no point having laws on the statute books that are not being applied, so in my view any law not being applied via penalty or successful prosecution over a rolling 12-month period should automatically be repealed.
It would then be up to legislators to justify the reintroduction of these expired/unenforced laws if they feel it necessary, and redraft them in a way that they can be enforced in future.
I was thinking about this, the fact that there is no constitution to limit government powers.
Then I realized that the closest thing we have is: referendum. No political party would dare to go against the will of the people. And to suggest doing so is to be unelectable. The best example of this was the Brexit referendum. It’s seen as the democratic will of the people, and thus cannot be simply reversed by a political party without another referendum.
