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Comment by alberto467

Unfortunately enforcing any laws on congressmen is very difficult.

In all decent democracies elected politicians have immunity or similar safeguards, since the separation of powers (as theorized by Montesquieu in the middle of illuminism) which represents the foundation of democracy demands that both the legislative and executive power be separated from the judicial one.

“Making the politicians pay for their crimes” is often just a populist argument, while there are ways to incriminate them, expecting that they can be prosecuted like us normal citizens is not compatible with democracy.

You may not like what I said but I said it. Go read the original works by Montesquieu, he understood it first.

parent alberto467 6 months ago

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