Lawmaking is fragmented across many levels of government beyond just legislatures.
Evidence
One could quibble about whether these are all really legislative bodies, but they all have one thing in common: it is part of their business to establish general rules. This is, of course, obvious for legislatures, which churn out “laws” or “statutes”; towns and cities produce “ordinances.” But park districts, transit authorities, sewer districts, and so on also make rules that are binding within their own small orbits of power. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 441
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Legislative supremacy over local governments is limited in practice by politics, not law. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 444; American lawmaking is fragmented across thousands of local special-purpose bodies, not just legislatures — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 440; Fragmented U.S. lawmaking institutions structurally favor slow incremental change over sweeping reform — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 170 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Fragmented U.S. lawmaking institutions structurally favor slow incremental change over sweeping reform
#exemplifies(0.85) — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 170 - Sub-national legislatures can lead prohibition while national governments lag, creating policy diffusion pressure.
#exemplifies(0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 8083 - Legislatures delegate unresolved political conflicts downward to administrators.
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