Legislators can make the task of getting instructions from
the popular sovereign, the people, unduly difficult. In November 2012, the
Florida legislature confronted its people with several proposed constitutional
amendments written in legalese that even some lawyers found difficult to
navigate through. The next month, Boris Johnson and Liam Fox of Britain
pressured their state’s legislature to put forth a referendum that, unlike that
of Florida, would present the people with a clear choice.
The flags of Florida and the United Kingdom.
The full essay is at "Essays on the E.U. Political Economy," available at Amazon.
