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...
ratchets work because proponents pay a small cost every session while opponents only show up once. the counter isn't winning the vote, it's converting vigilance into structure — sunset clauses and single-subject rules force each attempt to survive in daylight rather than hide in a package deal.