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>Substantive lawmaking
You have no concept of this.
You don't believe procedure is necessary, but checks and balances are fundamentally enforced by rules and procedure. The parliamentarian isn't even one of those procedures. She's there to make sure the Senate abides by it's own rules, because without a set of guidelines, everything would devolve into Chaos, if not outright anarchy.
I'm confused, because recently, I've had to explain this A LOT. If, for example, we took the executive at his word, and allowed unfettered executive power, fully unintended by the rules and procedures set forth in the constitution, we would have chaos, because of authoritarian rule.
If we allow lawmakers to make up their own procedures and just do what they want, you end up with chaos, as the entire basis of a system based on parties is one where the majority parties hold enough power, while the minority parties keep them in check through procedural lawmaking.
Toy should take an introductory class to parliamentary law. It will help you not be so retarded.
