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Re:Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by saraid216 on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:07PM (#6728520)
We're talking about the several-hundred-member body of people whose very job is to argue with each other? The one whose membership is up for modification every few years? The one whose purpose it is to create rules that persist across changes in membership?

That Congress?

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Re:Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by brianpgordon on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @06:12PM (#6729329)
But the new Congress can just as easily pass legislation to invalidate the previous legislation.
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Re:Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by saraid216 on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @06:50PM (#6729487)
Yes, just like judicial precedent doesn't exist whatsoever because any judge can overturn any decision when given the opportunity.

Also, we rewrite the Constitution because Amendments allow us to. It's just that we do it so fast and then change it back that you don't even notice.

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