July 14, 2010 1:00PM 

# I Didn’t Know People Like This Still Existed 

By [John Samples](https://www.cato.org/people/john-samples) 

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Justin Amash, a state legislator from Michigan, [describes](http://amashforcongress.com/principled-approach/how-a-bill-becomes-a-law-unfortunately) how laws get made based on his experience. Notice his antidote to such failures: independent judgment and deliberation combined with a sense of responsibility to his constituents.

Amash, by the way, is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. If he wins, he’ll find the process here to be much the same as in Michigan.

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