To Tom Berger and Rick Katz and Meg McKean and everyone else in this discussion:

I wonder if the only sure thing we might be able to say about all this is what Bismark said:

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
--Otto von Bismarck

Or perhaps we should modify that (given that we are political scientists who are paid to "see the laws being made and how") to :

Laws are not like sausages; you can try to see how they are made but you aren't going to agree on the taste.

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Best,
Ellis Krauss

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