>At 09:53 18-02-01 +0100, Sonja wrote:
>Define 'their job'..... As I see it, politicians make the rules of society
>to a
>large extend, because we gave them the power to do so. Lots of those rules
>stink. So let them deal with those things and find out how well their
politics
>work in practice. That's all I'm saying.
Well, don't tell David Brin, but one of the major achievements of the
Republican Party when they came to power in 1994 was to prohibit Congress
from exempting itself from any more regulations that it passes.
IMHO, this should be a principle of government everywhere.
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of isntitutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
