Our legislative branch, Congress, has two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. We also have only two political parties who pretty much hate each other. The Senate is dominated by the Democrats, but the House is dominated by the Republicans. Because our system requires proposed laws to be approved by a majority vote of both parts of Congress, proposed laws tend to undergo a lot of changes to make everyone happy. Increasingly, though, the Republicans will not agree to any meaningful compromises and so legislation ends up being discarded altogether.
The Arizona law has more to do with Constitutional rights, I think. That is a different issue.
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Date: 2013-06-18 07:22 pm (UTC)The Arizona law has more to do with Constitutional rights, I think. That is a different issue.