Friday, November 6, 2009

James Madison on the health care bill

Obviously, James Madison never wrote about the health care bill. But given that the current bill is 1,990 pages long and few of the representatives voting on it have actually read it, he seems remarkably prescient:
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they can not be read, or so incoherent that they can not be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow."
From The Federalist Papers

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