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Also it would keep legislators busy with the old laws, instead of making up new ones all the time.

Just make sure that re-affirming old laws takes some effort.

However I wonder how businesses would react to the uncertainties of certain laws expiring, just because the nation is not in a mood to re-affirm them?

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I resume there'd be a strong tendency toward maintaining the stability of commercial law, where needed, and preference for common law and equity above statutes. I guess for the same reasons so many companies choose to incorporate in Delaware today.

Given the increased power of the judiciary in this scenario, what should be done about bad judicial precedents? I can't see a sunset clause working there.

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