Legislative compromise structurally selects for nondogmatic lawmakers

Evidence

Here, I venture to believe, is a situation in which stability was unwisely chosen to the sacrifice of progress. Let us hope that through the aid of statute a better justice will prevail. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 2557 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Electoral-counting compromises institutionalized moral compromises into law — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 116; Quota-procedures distinction offers a politically viable affirmative action compromise — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2019; Stability is sometimes unwisely chosen over progress in judicial lawmaking — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2557

Broader Connections

• Stability is sometimes unwisely chosen over progress in judicial lawmaking #complicates (0.72) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 2557