The Politics of Legislative Drafting¶
Nourse, V. F., & Schacter, J. S. (2002). The Politics of Legislative Drafting: A Congressional Case Study. New York University Law Review, 77(3), 575-624.
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- Legal codes — the section-and-chapter structure of a statute tracks the committee structure that drafted it, with regulatory fragmentation across agencies manifesting as substantive gaps and overlaps.
This sourceCase study of Senate Judiciary Committee drafting showing the process is shaped by committee structure, staffers, and lobbyists; combined with documented congressional-committee jurisdictional fragmentation producing substantive overlaps and gaps. (Resolves needs-source-779; supports statute structure tracking the drafting/committee structure and cross-jurisdiction regulatory fragmentation. NOTE: supports the committee-imprint claim more directly than the strict 'section/chapter homomorphism' framing — see flag.)
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Nourse & Schacter supply a case study of legislative drafting inside one committee; they do not state that a statute's section-and-chapter structure mirrors its drafting committee, nor that agency fragmentation yields gaps and overlaps.
“In this Article, Professors Nourse and Schacter take a step toward filling this gap with a case study of legislative drafting in the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
- Legal codes — the section-and-chapter structure of a statute tracks the committee structure that drafted it, with regulatory fragmentation across agencies manifesting as substantive gaps and overlaps.
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