Party-based systems create career incentives for the legislator to support the overall aims of the parties.
With previous experiences, legislators had opportunities to accumulate expertise and incentives to organize legislatures in ways that relied on expertise.
Therefore, if legislators predict that bills will be enacted, they will vote for bills although they prefer to defeat bills.
Judges defer to legislators when the will of the latter is clearly expressed in statutes that have been enacted in the procedurally correct way.
This legislator's utterance enacts a law regarding who is permitted to vote.
Before the amendment, senators were elected indirectly by state legislators; after the amendment, senators were elected directly by the state citizenry.
It clearly allows for the possibility of legislative fallibility; legislators may create statutory rules whose applications they-individually or collectively- understand badly or not at all.
The moment is set amidst considerable and explicit unease on behalf of both legislators and judges.
