Title: Why is it so difficult for a bill to become law? - Quora
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Because it’s designed to be hard - per our “founding fathers”. What they wanted to avoid is making law-making both too easy and too hard. They wanted people in the future to really think hard about new laws and consider all the positives but especially all of the negatives - there is NO new law that doesn’t harm someone in some way or have unanticipated bad side effects. So they made it hard to pass laws so that you would have mob justice, emotional knee-jerk reactions, and irrationality being the impetus and reasons behind new laws. This is the same reason why we have the United States Electoral
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Because it’s designed to be hard - per our “founding fathers”. What they wanted to avoid is making law-making both too easy and too hard. They wanted people in the future to really think hard about new laws and consider all the positives but especially all of the negatives - there is NO new law that doesn’t harm someone in some way or have unanticipated bad side effects. So they made it hard to pass laws so that you would have mob justice, emotional knee-jerk reactions, and irrationality being the impetus and reasons behind new laws. This is the same reason why we have the United States Electoral College for presidential elections rather than a simple direct vote. People are stupid and reactionary especially when they form groups.