Does the Convocation make the laws?" Erskyll asked.Hozhet was perplexed. "Make laws, Lord Proconsul? Oh, no. We have laws."There were planets, here and there through the Empire, where an attitude like that would have been distinctly beneficial; planets with elective parliaments, every member of which felt himself obligated to get as many laws enacted during his term of office as possible.
-H. Beam Piper
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