Temporary Legislation¶
Gersen, J. E. (2007). Temporary Legislation. University of Chicago Law Review, 74(1), 247-298.
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Mechanisms¶
- Paired Enablement and Restraint Policy
- It is the governance analogue of the archetype's insistence that both channels stay alive at the same surface, and its sunset clause
This sourceDescribes sunset provisions as automatically terminating authority unless it is affirmatively reauthorized.
- It is the governance analogue of the archetype's insistence that both channels stay alive at the same surface, and its sunset clause
- Phased Policy Intensity
- A real guarding device is the sunset clause — a mandated expiry or review that forces a phased policy to be re-justified rather than ratcheting up automatically.
This sourceDefines sunset provisions as clauses that make legislation expire at a specified time unless it is renewed.
- A real guarding device is the sunset clause — a mandated expiry or review that forces a phased policy to be re-justified rather than ratcheting up automatically.
- Policy Pilot Sunset Clause
- Legislative sunset provisions
This sourceShows how sunset provisions reverse the continuation default and enable policy experimentation and adjustment.
- Legislative sunset provisions
- Response Reversibility Checkpoint
- The device it institutionalizes — the sunset clause, a provision that automatically repeals a measure unless renewed — is a mature tool precisely for this problem.
This sourceShows that sunset provisions change continuation's default by terminating without affirmative renewal and forcing reconsideration.
- The device it institutionalizes — the sunset clause, a provision that automatically repeals a measure unless renewed — is a mature tool precisely for this problem.
- Scheduled Revalidation Review
- The hard gate — a sunset or recertification checkpoint — makes continued validity something that must be actively re-earned rather than passively assumed.
This sourceExplains that sunset provisions make continued legal validity depend on periodic review and affirmative reenactment.
- The hard gate — a sunset or recertification checkpoint — makes continued validity something that must be actively re-earned rather than passively assumed.
- Sunset Clause Register
- Its strength is that it is the cleanest fix for the "temporary measures with no expiration become permanent" symptom, because it makes removal the default and puts the effort-burden on retention — the exact inversion a ratchet needs.
This sourceExplains that temporary legislation terminates automatically at its sunset and that continuation requires reauthorization effort rather than an affirmative repeal.
- Its strength is that it is the cleanest fix for the "temporary measures with no expiration become permanent" symptom, because it makes removal the default and puts the effort-burden on retention — the exact inversion a ratchet needs.
- Sunset Clause Review
- If they can't, it lapses on schedule — no repeal campaign required, because the default is expiry.
This sourceDefines temporary legislation as expiring at a predetermined time unless lawmakers affirmatively extend or reenact it.
- If they can't, it lapses on schedule — no repeal campaign required, because the default is expiry.
- Sunset Clause with Reopener
- The discipline that guards against this is making the reopener substantive and pre-committed: a defined review with published evidence, a renewal default of lapse
This sourceDefines temporary legislation as expiring automatically unless later political action reauthorizes it.
- The discipline that guards against this is making the reopener substantive and pre-committed: a defined review with published evidence, a renewal default of lapse
- Support Layer Sunset Review
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