{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/20","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/20/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/20/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/20/events","html_url":"https://github.com/liberland/constitution/issues/20","id":71199816,"number":20,"title":"Self-limiting laws","user":{"login":"fare","id":8073,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8073?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare","html_url":"https://github.com/fare","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fare/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":15,"created_at":"2015-04-27T07:17:16Z","updated_at":"2015-04-28T02:06:16Z","closed_at":"2015-04-28T02:06:16Z","body":"Laws should include rationale and a duration limit.\r\n\r\nRationale: anyone can contest in court that the official rationale is not met and thereby nullify the law.\r\n\r\nDuration limit: Ideally, every law should be renewed by every legislature after being read in its entirety. No one would be able to vote unless they had been physically present, and mentally present (no cell-phone, laptop, book, etc., allowed, except a copy of the text), for the entire duration of the reading — maybe forced to read the text aloud. Or maybe, a \"yes\" vote must consist in successfully dictating the entire text of the law in a public recording. Any discrepancy in the dictated text, and the vote becomes a \"no\".\r\n\r\nForcing laws to be read by legislators also ensures a limit on the total size of the code. Then is the problem of legislators delegating legislative powers to unelected bureaucracies, like they do in modern \"democracies\". The constitution should prevent this power grab somehow.\r\n\r\nBut really, is there any use for human laws? The recognition of private property rights is all you need."}}