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Proposed constitutional amendment: Within 30 days after a bill is made law, legislators that voted must pass an automatically generated comprehension test of the legislation at a 6th grade level. On failure they lose voting privileges for 90 days. On three strikes they leave office and a new election for that seat is called.


> legislators that voted must pass an automatically generated comprehension test

Congratulations, you’ve transferred legislative power to the test administrator and granted them a de facto veto to boot.

Better: laws are subject to up-down popular veto. (Counterpoint: you’ll wind up with omnibuses.)


Why not make it a condition of the vote in the first place? Don't understand it? No vote for you. If your constituency wanted a say, they can let you know what they think about that.


do you want to incentivize introducing bills that are intentionally incomprehensible.


for anybody who can't pass the test on understanding - default "No" vote. That would incentivize the opposite - straight to understand bills.


Just a default sunset in 10-20yr for every law not passed by a supermajority would do wonders.




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