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The Plain Writing Act of 2010 [pdf]

18 pointsby fsethiover 9 years ago

5 comments

GeneralMayhemover 9 years ago
&gt;SEC. 6. JUDICIAL REVIEW AND ENFORCEABILITY.<p>&gt;(a) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—There shall be no judicial review of compliance or noncompliance with any provision of this Act.<p>&gt;(b) ENFORCEABILITY.—No provision of this Act shall be construed to create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any administrative or judicial action.<p>I&#x27;m not particularly familiar with the intricacies of self-regulation in the US government; if judges can&#x27;t review whether an agency is following the rule, and individuals don&#x27;t have grounds to force the matter because it&#x27;s not a &quot;right or benefit&quot;, does this mean that there&#x27;s no enforceability at all, or is there some other mechanism not mentioned here that kicks in by default?
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noahltover 9 years ago
This is funny and ironic, but really it&#x27;s no different than implementing Lisp in C. Naturally, the implementation language will not be as nice as the implemented language.
irixusrover 9 years ago
We also need a bill length vs. review time rule.<p>If a law is too long for a representative to have read it (Patriot act, ACA) then Congress should not vote on it until they&#x27;ve had enough time to read it.<p>I propose 10 days + (number of pages &#x2F; 5) after it&#x27;s been introduced to the public.
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RankingMemberover 9 years ago
The way some governmental texts are written, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they run the original text through an obfuscation find&#x2F;replace algorithm that replaces words &lt;5 letters with a similar word from a thesaurus with the maximum length available.
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MalcolmDiggsover 9 years ago
It took 2+ full pages to tell people to keep things simple. Awesome.
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