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# Wellspring: Legislature
## The purpose of legislation:
### Pripola bills
The category under which most legislation will fall is the Private Property Law Bill category (hereafter, `Pripola bill`).
The `WS` constitution already cements private property as the law of the polity. The purpose of laws passed by the legislature is merely make it clear to the polity how private property law (as defined in the "Principles" of this constitution) applies to particular actions, scenarios and innovations and thereby to extend private property's coverage to new phenomena. The goal of legislation is not to "create opportunity" or pursue "equality" or to "regulate".
A pripola bill must pass the Legislative Process in order to enter the body of adopted law.
### Advisory standards bills
> [Experimental:] If we keep Advisory standard bills, make sure to write an apologia for why they are useful.
A separate category of legislation, known as "Advisory Standards", exists to enable the legislature to recommend normative codes of behaviour to be ***optionally*** adopted by the private sector as policy for the management of externality-fraught enterprises and enterprises which are difficult to co-ordinate. Advisory Standard Bills must go through the same Legislative Process as `Pripola` bills in order to enter the body of Adopted Advisory Standards.
## Technical consultation during the legislative process.
> [Apologia]: In an ideal world, the legislature would not be filled with lawyers and non-technical people, but technical expertise does not confer an understanding of how to adapt legislation to that field of expertise. Instead experience has shown that political philosophers and lawyers, when brought up to speed with the technical particulars, can more readily fit those particulars into their political philosophy's model. Obviously the ideal politician is one who is both knowledgeable about law, economics and philosophy; and about the particular technical field s/he is attempting to legislate -- i.e, a technically experienced politician. However, since the norm is likely to be that non-technical politicians will be attempting to govern things they generally do not understand, the technical consultation is intended to bring them up to speed.