If that alone makes a democracy a joke, I think that there wouldn’t be many non-joke democracies.
Which would be a correct statement. There should be at least a timeout before a legislation can be proposed again, with changes substantial enough to justify the new vote.
That’s a thought, though that’ll also introduce some new political strategies that one might not want, like making poison-pilling legislation a much-more-powerful move or immediately proposing and voting down legislation just before a given legislature departs to kill the ability of the incoming legislators to pass that legislation.
It also may be hard to draw that “substantial enough” line. Similar problem to determining what qualifies as a rider for the purposes of anti-rider restrictions (“you can’t just attach unrelated legislation to legislation” and “well, what qualifies as unrelated?”).
Which would be a correct statement. There should be at least a timeout before a legislation can be proposed again, with changes substantial enough to justify the new vote.
That’s a thought, though that’ll also introduce some new political strategies that one might not want, like making poison-pilling legislation a much-more-powerful move or immediately proposing and voting down legislation just before a given legislature departs to kill the ability of the incoming legislators to pass that legislation.
It also may be hard to draw that “substantial enough” line. Similar problem to determining what qualifies as a rider for the purposes of anti-rider restrictions (“you can’t just attach unrelated legislation to legislation” and “well, what qualifies as unrelated?”).
Single issue voting