Relating To Legislation
- blank check: legislation which is vaguely worded to the point where it can be widely exploited and abused.
- grandfather clause that allows a piece of legislation not to apply to something old or incumbent.
- poison pill a provision in an act or bill which defeat or undermines its initial purpose, or which make it politically unacceptable.
- pork barrel legislation or patronage: acts of government that blatantly favor powerful special interest groups.
- rider that attaches something new or unrelated to an existing bill.
- sunset clause to prevent legislation from being permanent.
- a trigger law that will automatically "spring" into effect once some other variable occurs.
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“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)