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DAVID POST: Should Lawmakers, Um, Read the Laws They?re Voting On? Sounds like something you?d a?

By Glenn Reynolds

DAVID POST: Should Lawmakers, Um, Read the Laws They’re Voting On?

Sounds like something you’d ask in a third-grade civics class. But an odd editorial in today’s Washington Post, takes to task “a group of well-meaning professional activists ? and, so far, over nearly 60,000 online petitioners” who have demanded that members of Congress sign a pledge “never to vote on any bill unless they have read every word of it.” While the activists “have a point,” the Post concedes, their “proposal would bring government to a standstill.”

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).