How does one stop legislative ratcheting? So many overreaching measures are now simply reintroduced to the floor as many times as necessary to pass, or get backdoored in by being packaged with other p...
It depends on the country, but the usual structural tools are: single-subject rules (many US state constitutions already require a bill to cover one subject, which blocks riders), sunset clauses so measures expire unless renewed, and supermajority or cooling-off rules for bringing back a bill that recently failed. Day to day, what works is visibility: tracking each version and amendment, publicising who voted for what, and organising early, at committee stage, before a bill reaches the floor.