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dhe workshop of the legislative R ranchthe people's elected representatives certainly does not convey the idea of an efficient mechanism. Few colleagues mav be present on the floor of House or Senate while a member is deIvering an extended and earnest address .many will be in committee sessions. A committee meeting may drone on in repetitious utterance of the same arguments for or against a bill.
Many a visitor must have an impulse to call out:
“Come on; let’s get on with it! Vote on the bill and get on to something else.”
Rut would a more “efficient”
in the public interest ? FVrhaps more of the upwards of 15,000 bills so far offered in this Congress. ^iow in its second year, would reach final action if committee and floor discussion were limited severely and the measures hurried to a vote. On the other hand, the average farmer or businessman can make out a fairly strong case that we have entirely too many laws already.that one requires special legal and accounting talent mere. ly to keep out of jail.
When we get right down to it, we may have to acknowledge that a representative democracy is not the most efficient type of government. Rut let us be careful here..-. that is the contemptous evaluation which fascists and communists alike make of our republic. Whatever its shortcomings in formalized “efficiency”, we maintain that itvdividual freedom of expression and the privilege of every citizen to contribute to the shaping and reshaping of, his government outweigh immeasurably the pseudoefficiency wc have traded for these values. national legislature
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