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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (74279)	9/10/2003 2:00:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think that government should be limited by the law, and by the actual law, not something that might bear some distant relation to something in or even just hinted at by the law. If you think about how your approach would play out in real life, I think you'd see that it's not practicable. Those who write the law aren't gods. They can't think of everything, they aren't always precise in their language, and they aren't monolithic in their intent. I think we would have a serious mess if courts did not make judgments where laws are unclear. If you have a city ordinance that you can't sell vegetables inside city limits without a license and somebody sells tomatoes, which are a fruit, technically, what do you do? If everything like that got sent back to the legislature, we'd be tied up in knots. And, in the case of the Constitution, you can't send it back for a redo and it's next to impossible to amend. So you interpret. Life would come to a screeching halt otherwise.